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Billionaire Concepts: Infrastructure

The recession has caused a majority of investments to deliver bleak returns. It has investors scrambling to find safe but better returns. The Globe and Mail reports on a little known tactic used by the wealthy: infrastructure investments. They’re now beginning to attract more and more average investors due to their average 7-12% returns. Targeted [...]

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Spotlight on R. Donahue Peebles

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R Donahue Peebles makes major waves in the real estate world. He is the founder of Atlantic Development Corp, which boasts over $4 billion in development deals. The corporation is one of the largest African American owned real estate firms in the country. The founder has negotiated and won several competitive bids over his career. [...]

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Warren Buffet Sees the Railroad as the Future

The investing world hangs on every move that Warren Buffett makes. He’s recently given everyone something to talk about with his recent investment purchase. He’ has just invested $26 billion into Burlington Northern, a railroad company. His reasoning is that the company has a monopoly on train transportation and speculates that the industry will continue [...]

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Charles Schwab Allowing Clients to Trade Their ETFs for Free

Commission fees are usually tacked on to trades in the stock world. There’s no way around them, as you will have to pay to play. Charles Schwab is leading the brokerage industry by offering a sexy perk: allowing commission free trades on their own ETFS in the NYSE Arca exchange. We’re hopeful that others will [...]

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Interest Rates Falling: the Bad, the Good

People are taking the safe roads during the current rocky economic period. They’re loading off their investments in the safest options. This comes with its sets of pros and cons. For one, safer investments are paying out dismal interest rates. It means that most savings aren’t earning much money at all. Recently, the treasury rates [...]

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Glimpse into TIPS

In an economy where the US dollar is slipping away further than the balloon in the Balloon Boy story, it’s time to consider investment options that account for inflation. Familiar with TIPS? We’re not referring to tips in the context of tipping a server (although that’s a necessary evil). We’re talking about TIPS, an acronym [...]

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How to Operate Like a Hedge Fund

Hedge funds seem to be shining in this down economy. Recently, they’ve gotten a lot of attention for their positive returns and gain in assets. If you’re not familiar with hedge funds, they are investment firms that manage large amounts of money with the intent to make large annual gains using complex measures. To be [...]

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Market May Not Be Sexy for Long

While the market looks good on the outside, it doesn’t have the right backing to last long-term. Essentially, the market reaching new highs for the year is “[MAC] lipstick on a pig”. Analyst David Rosenberg believes that the market is highly overpriced. Thus, he believes the market will be due to crash at anytime due [...]

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