Why You Should Invest In Real EstateOne of the great things about property is it enables you to leverage the ?20,000 to purchase a ?100,000 investment property (in other words, borrow the remaining ?80,000 from the bank). Now say the property market slows down to an average of only 6% return for the next 10 years. This would probably be a fair estimate in the UK, although there are plenty of markets which are growing more rapidly, lets concentrate on UK for this example. [More] | Investing in Stocks and the Game of MonopolyTaking this approach in the stock market game, you would not win in the stock market by selling your shares owned, but by adding to those shares owned, so every “rent” (dividend collected) would be higher than the previous “rent” collected. This would be accomplished by holding on to those shares owned, and by having the dividends of each company owned rolled back into more shares each quarter. (This would be compared to building houses on the properties you own in the game of Monopoly.) [More] | Give your stakeholders a raise - increase asset productivity!A mid-size industrial instrumentation company benefited from a new strategy that focused on increasing asset productivity. After a number of years of explosive growth, the sluggish economy significantly reduced the growth-rate of the firm. Profits came under pressure, cost-cutting measures were implemented, but shareholder value continued to decline. Together with senior management, Global Marketing benchmarked present asset productivity. The results yielded a stunner! Barely 40% of the company's assets contributed to 100% of the profits. Basically, 60% of their assets were idle or significantly under performing. [More] |
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5 Tips for Savvy Use of Your Home Equity Line of Credit
by: Tim Paul
Tapping your home's equity to pay college expenses, consolidate credit card debt or even to buy a new car or boat is common place. Many economists attribute the additional buying power afforded .
On a New High and an Old Price
One of the comments to my previous post, The Human Index, prompted this post.
As the Dow flirts with a new high (and the financ.
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