Those researching the subject of commercial real estate investment are likely to encounter the term “OPM” on a regular basis. OPM is an acronym for “Other People’s Money.” I’ve covered this topic in general in an earlier article, but today I want to focus on raising “equity” for your commercial purchase transactions.

To review, [...]

Using the equity in your home to pay off your high interest credit cards may seem like a no brainer. After all doesn’t it make sense to lower you interest cost from 18% to 7%?  Well maybe, if that was the only change that happens when you reposition that debt from an unsecured credit card [...]

A new tool for IRA retirement plan investing called zero coupon bond is available for you. The maturity is 5 years. So if you were to buy a zero coupon bond callable in 5 years, at the end of the fifth year, if you invest $100,000 they will guarantee you a return of $150,000. That’s [...]

A few years ago on a Monday morning, I checked my brokerage account and to my surprise it showed that I had purchased 1,000 shares of AMD for a total cost of $15,000. The payment for this purchase was taken out of my brokerage money market account.
Why surprised you may ask. I had not put [...]

GENDER EQUITY WOMAN EMPOWERMENT

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Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered concept. Women’s empowerment is a process in which women gain greater share of control over resources - material, human and intellectual like knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money - and access to money and control over decision-making in the home, community, society and [...]

If you want a cheap loan despite your bad credit than you can choose bad credit home equity loans. These loans are given on the security of your home. People with CCJ’s, arrears or any default payment can easily go for these loans. The lender keeps your home as collateral so that they don’t [...]

Many borrowers look at a few of the important aspects of their proposed jumbo reverse mortgage. How much money will they get, How much are the fees, what is the starting interest rate but so often these are about the only items they concern themselves with.

Some borrowers also insist on getting fixed rate reverse [...]

Gold Mining Stocks - With the Stock Market Panic behind us - for now - we are settling in for a range bound, relatively calm, second half of ‘08. Gold Mining Stocks should finally start to benefit as the wet blanket smothering equity markets lift.
The New York Stock Exchange indicator for new lows reached an [...]

It was a case of two steps forward and two steps back last week for world equity markets. Global equities were served a reminder of just how difficult bear markets can be. Traders are quick to grab whatever short term profits they have made, making it difficult for rallies to build momentum. Equities shot out [...]

Foreign investors are once again queuing up to pour money into India’s red hot property market, with the government relaxing some of the norms. At least half-a-dozen deals worth $1billion are being finalised by Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, The Carlyle Group and Blackstone, among others, with unlisted real estate companies, as pre-initial public offering (IPO) placement.

A [...]