http://hypoventure-capital.com/?p=32Manny Pacquiao lived on the streets as a child in Manila, fights for a living today, visited President Obama recently and will inevitably upgrade from congressman to presidential candidate in the Philippines in the next 10 years.
His days under cardboard on the streets of the sprawling city, after leaving home when his father allegedly slaughtered and cooked his pet dog, and his improbable rise to the Philippine congress, where he is the architect of new anti-sex slave legislation, make his story one of boxing’s most amazing.
Pacquiao will defend his World Boxing Organisation welterweight title tonight at the MGM in Las Vegas against the once brilliant but now slightly jaded Shane Mosley. He is unbeaten since 1995 and has added world titles at five weights since his last loss. As a fighter Pacquiao has won world titles at seven different weights and has a truly remarkable back catalogue of startling finishes in brutal fights. His savage series of meetings with Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez, the finest Mexicans of this and arguably any generation, and his cold-eyed destructions of Ricky Hatton and Oscar de la Hoya guarantee Pacquiao a special place in boxing’s history books.
Last May he won a seat in the Philippine congress for the province of Sarangani and he has taken his congressional duties so seriously that his trainer, Freddie Roach, was convinced that he would walk away from the sport. “I think we will lose him to politics,” Roach told me last summer. However, Pacquiao is skilled at manipulating time and his entourage, which is a staggering moving, cooking, laughing and singing gang, and now includes his political chief of staff.
At his last fight in November against Antonio Margarito, he hired a 747 and flew in more than 200 people from Manila to Dallas. They disembarked to join his retinue in several plush suites, where Pacquiao always sleeps with a dozen or so close friends. The fighter and his people cook their own food, watch kung fu films and perform endless hours of karaoke in the days and hours before fights. His wife and any other women have their own rooms.
As a child in the Manila slums Pacquiao slept on the floors in gyms with dozens of other homeless and desperate little fighters. His passage from six-stone anonymity, fighting for peanuts in long forgotten Filipino outposts, to the smiling, bilingual boxer with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at $70m (£43m) is one of the legends of the boxing business. He had over 30 fights before turning professional, weighed less than 90 pounds and was unbeaten, always winning about $3 and enough rice to feed the other dwellers in the gym’s filthy bunk beds. He was just 16 when he turned professional, having lied about being 18 and he was still undoubtedly malnourished, often having to weigh in with lumps of metal in his socks. The $40 purses he received for his early fights meant he could eat and send money to his mother.
After 24 fights, and still when he was only 19, Pacquiao won and then lost the flyweight world title in bouts against the odds and against hometown favourites in Thailand. He was still well under boxing’s radar even when he won titles at super-bantamweight and reigned without equal for three years. In 2003 he arrived on the true international stage when he ruined Barrera in a non-title fight at featherweight, sending the exceptional Mexican staggering from corner to corner before the brutality ended in round 11.
Mosley will be Pacquiao’s 18th opponent since the night he dismantled Barrera; the list includes De la Hoya, left stunned on his stool at the end of seven rounds and looking like a man who had just glimpsed hell and not really fancied the journey very much. Hatton went down and out in two rounds and the Mexicans succumbed in slugfests that continually wrote and rewrote their way into the pantheon of great fights involving great fighters.
It is the quality of Pacquiao’s opponents over such a long period of time that places him with the modern giants; it is hard to mix talk about present-day and ancient fighters because of the way the sport operated before the 1960s. Pacquiao is one of the best boxers of the last 50 years.
Bob Arum, the promoter who travelled with Muhammad Ali and promotes Pacquiao, is convinced that he is a bigger star. “Ali never had this level of devotion,” Arum said. “In the Philippines he [Pacquiao] is the social welfare system – the best one. He helps everybody”.
The sharing of wealth is called balato and since his congressional victory it has become a lot more serious. The people of Sarangani do not have a hospital so Pacquiao went to see President Benigno Aquino III. “The sick had to travel for hospital care,” said Pacquiao. “I promised a hospital and they will get a hospital.” Pacquiao sat with Aquino and was given $5m to start the build. The ground will be broken in a ceremony when he returns after the Mosley fight. Aquino had pushed through legislation that guaranteed Pacquiao and his family military protection long before the new congressman sat with him and asked for a favour that he simply could not refuse.
“I want to achieve the same in politics that I have in boxing,” said Pacquiao. “I will start with what I know best and what I know needs to change.” He has personally written parts of the anti-human trafficking legislation that he is pushing through the Filipino congress.
At the same time, the 32-year-old has unfinished business inside the ring and is still hoping for a showdown with the evasive American Floyd Mayweather in a fight that would guarantee the pair $50m if it can possibly be made. The partial motivation for fighting Mosley is to try to beat him inside the distance and improve on the points win by Mayweather against Mosley last year. Meanwhile, Mayweather has to answer serious criminal charges in Las Vegas in July. All planned attempts to get them together have sadly faltered, the main stumbling block being the American’s insistence on Olympic-style drug tests before and after the fight. Pacquiao has passed every drug test he has ever taken.
Pacquiao’s road show shifted from Roach’s shabby Los Angeles gym to the opulent plastic-plant wonder of the MGM this week. The entourage was in tow, swiftly setting up music and food areas in his suites. Pacquiao’s latest CD was released last month and reputedly sold out immediately. It is called Sometimes When We Touch and is a compilation of power ballads from the Seventies and includes no fewer than seven versions of the title song. His love of music does not end there – Roach has continually to monitor the time spent by his fighter in the ring and at the microphone belting out Tony Christie numbers – and tonight Survivor’s Jimi Jamison will perform “Eye of the Tiger” live for Pacquiao’s ring walk.
“My heart is in focus,” insists Pacquiao. “I ignore distractions and do what I have to do in boxing and in life.” One thing is certain: the tiny genius with the gloves and the mission will be missed when he quits.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Hypo Venture Capital Headlines: Forget in-depth financial analysis- Now even Wall Street is turning to Twitter for clues on the stock market
http://hypoventurecapital-financialideas.com/?p=34Twitter may have finally found a real way to make money.
For years, analysts have predicted that the real value of the social networking service doesn’t lie in serving advertising to users, but rather in serving up millions of points of real-time data to anyone who can wring useful intelligence out of it.
A new paper published by an Indiana University professor, combined with recent practices on Wall Street, suggest that Twitter may be a goldmine of valuable financial information.
Power to the people: A professor’s analysis of Tweets proved 87 per cent accurate in predicting stock prices
Data: Social services like Twitter may prove invaluable when it comes to real-time financial information
Johan Bollen, a professor of informatics at Indiana, co-authored a study that linked a computerized assessment of the ‘mood’ of millions of Twitter posts with stock market performance.
Mr Bollen’s analysis of Tweets was said to have an 87 per cent chance of successfully predicting stock prices within three or four days of online discussion of the company in question.
To reach his conclusion, Mr Bollen analyzed a total of 9.6 million tweets over nine months in 2008, using two mood-tracking tools.
One program assessed whether a tweet about a particular company was positive or negative, while the other tried to drill down further and categorize tweets through six modifiers: calm, alert, sure, vital, kind and happy.
Mood tracker: By analyzing what people post to Twitter, scientists hope to gauge the mood of masses
Mr Bollen told USA Today: ‘If you would have told anyone 10 years ago that this data would be available, they would have called it science-fiction.
‘We know that emotions play a significant role in markets’.
Mr Bollen added that the process of analyzing millions of tweets is akin to a ‘large-scale emotional thermometer for society as a whole’.
USA Today wrote: ‘This incoming psychological snapshot of the Twitterati, digerati and average Joe could prompt a computer program interpreting the data at a hedge fund to place a trade without human intervention in an attempt to profit from the information’.
In fact, some financial companies are already incorporating analysis of Twitter and other social media into their decision-making strategies.
Data wizard: Twitter CEO Evan Williams demonstrates his site in this file photo
One such company, London-based hedge fund Derwent Capital Markets, has announced plans to step up the process.
In March, a study by a Ph.D. student at Pace University showed a positive correlation between social-media ‘popularity’ of Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Nike and their stock prices.
On several levels, the news that stocks can be affected by Twitter shouldn’t be surprising to anyone.
If the ‘micro-blogging’ service could play a role in the toppling of regimes in the Middle East, it stands to reason that it could affect the trading price of IBM or Bank of America.
The news may help further democratize information, and thereby the economy, and it is probably only a hint of the vast amounts of valuable info that are likely to be harvested from social networks.
Price signals: A study at Pace University showed a positive correlation between social-media ‘popularity’ of Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Nike and their stock prices
For years, analysts have predicted that the real value of the social networking service doesn’t lie in serving advertising to users, but rather in serving up millions of points of real-time data to anyone who can wring useful intelligence out of it.
A new paper published by an Indiana University professor, combined with recent practices on Wall Street, suggest that Twitter may be a goldmine of valuable financial information.
Power to the people: A professor’s analysis of Tweets proved 87 per cent accurate in predicting stock prices
Data: Social services like Twitter may prove invaluable when it comes to real-time financial information
Johan Bollen, a professor of informatics at Indiana, co-authored a study that linked a computerized assessment of the ‘mood’ of millions of Twitter posts with stock market performance.
Mr Bollen’s analysis of Tweets was said to have an 87 per cent chance of successfully predicting stock prices within three or four days of online discussion of the company in question.
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One program assessed whether a tweet about a particular company was positive or negative, while the other tried to drill down further and categorize tweets through six modifiers: calm, alert, sure, vital, kind and happy.
Mood tracker: By analyzing what people post to Twitter, scientists hope to gauge the mood of masses
Mr Bollen told USA Today: ‘If you would have told anyone 10 years ago that this data would be available, they would have called it science-fiction.
‘We know that emotions play a significant role in markets’.
Mr Bollen added that the process of analyzing millions of tweets is akin to a ‘large-scale emotional thermometer for society as a whole’.
USA Today wrote: ‘This incoming psychological snapshot of the Twitterati, digerati and average Joe could prompt a computer program interpreting the data at a hedge fund to place a trade without human intervention in an attempt to profit from the information’.
In fact, some financial companies are already incorporating analysis of Twitter and other social media into their decision-making strategies.
Data wizard: Twitter CEO Evan Williams demonstrates his site in this file photo
One such company, London-based hedge fund Derwent Capital Markets, has announced plans to step up the process.
In March, a study by a Ph.D. student at Pace University showed a positive correlation between social-media ‘popularity’ of Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Nike and their stock prices.
On several levels, the news that stocks can be affected by Twitter shouldn’t be surprising to anyone.
If the ‘micro-blogging’ service could play a role in the toppling of regimes in the Middle East, it stands to reason that it could affect the trading price of IBM or Bank of America.
The news may help further democratize information, and thereby the economy, and it is probably only a hint of the vast amounts of valuable info that are likely to be harvested from social networks.
Price signals: A study at Pace University showed a positive correlation between social-media ‘popularity’ of Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Nike and their stock prices
Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:Republicans Make Power Play To Gut Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
http://hypoventurecapital-news.com/2011/05/hypo-venture-capital-zurich-headlinesrepublicans-make-power-play-to-gut-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/On Thursday, while House Republicans were dealing with a small Medicare privatization snafu, their Senate counterparts laid down an impossible marker. Forty four of their 47 members have signed on to a letter threatening to filibuster any nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless it is dramatically weakened.
“We will not support the consideration of any nominee, regardless of party affiliation, to be the CFPB director until the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reformed,” reads a letter, co-authored by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), ranking member of the Banking Committee.
Congress created the CFPB, despite GOP opposition, as part of the Wall Street reform law, to protect consumers from predatory actors in the financial industry. Its intellectual godmother is Elizabeth Warren, whom President Obama has tasked with standing up the agency. Despite her popularity, she’s been a long-shot to run the Bureau when it officially launches — largely because of financial industry and Republican (and even some Democratic) opposition. Indeed, former Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) — who poured cold water on the idea of nominating Warren — warned that if Democrats tried to jam a director through the Senate without bipartisan support, Republicans would go to war against the Bureau and try to gut it.
Turns out that’s what’s happening anyhow. Who could’ve predicted?
Specifically, Republicans want the CFPB subject to the appropriations process — something it avoids as an entity housed in the Federal Reserve. They also want to delegate more decision making authority away from the Bureau’s director, and give other regulators — many of which are captured by the financial industry — opportunities to block CFPB rules.
This shouldn’t be a winning fight, if Democrats don’t want it to be. The financial reform law is still fairly popular, and the CFPB is the most popular part of it. President Obama could use recess appointment to fill the vacancy, and take the fight public. At this point it’s a question of how he and Senate Democrats decide to handle it.
Note, not signing the letter were Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and John Ensign (R-NV), who stepped down before it was released. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who along with Brown voted for the financial reform law, added their names to the roster.
“We will not support the consideration of any nominee, regardless of party affiliation, to be the CFPB director until the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reformed,” reads a letter, co-authored by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), ranking member of the Banking Committee.
Congress created the CFPB, despite GOP opposition, as part of the Wall Street reform law, to protect consumers from predatory actors in the financial industry. Its intellectual godmother is Elizabeth Warren, whom President Obama has tasked with standing up the agency. Despite her popularity, she’s been a long-shot to run the Bureau when it officially launches — largely because of financial industry and Republican (and even some Democratic) opposition. Indeed, former Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) — who poured cold water on the idea of nominating Warren — warned that if Democrats tried to jam a director through the Senate without bipartisan support, Republicans would go to war against the Bureau and try to gut it.
Turns out that’s what’s happening anyhow. Who could’ve predicted?
Specifically, Republicans want the CFPB subject to the appropriations process — something it avoids as an entity housed in the Federal Reserve. They also want to delegate more decision making authority away from the Bureau’s director, and give other regulators — many of which are captured by the financial industry — opportunities to block CFPB rules.
This shouldn’t be a winning fight, if Democrats don’t want it to be. The financial reform law is still fairly popular, and the CFPB is the most popular part of it. President Obama could use recess appointment to fill the vacancy, and take the fight public. At this point it’s a question of how he and Senate Democrats decide to handle it.
Note, not signing the letter were Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and John Ensign (R-NV), who stepped down before it was released. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who along with Brown voted for the financial reform law, added their names to the roster.
Hypo Venture Capital Zurich: Try Investing In Foreign Markets For Exceptional Profits – HypoVen
http://www.investmentobjectives.info/hypo-venture-capital-zurich-try-investing-in-foreign-markets-for-exceptional-profits-hypoven.html
Foreign markets have been mostly referred to as rising markets if anything, though a European marketplace is included. Foreign batch markets have been charity incomparable earnings than a U.S. batch marketplace for many of this decade, partly given they begin out during a reduce base. Investors unprotected to unfamiliar marketplace expansion intensity of a rising countries, can bound upon a high-return gravy train, so prolonged as they equivocate a float off a precipice that has happened mostly with rising marketplace stocks.
Here during Hypo Venture Capital Zurich, Switzerland we have been committed to charity a clients entrance to a ultimate as good as broadest operation of monetary services as good as products upon a market. We know that selecting a right strategy, a right investment as good as a right product is no easy charge in this day as good as age! Whether a advice, investments or monetary formulation we have been here to answer all your questions as good as promote all your monetary needs.
Foreign Markets Include BRIC as good as Feeder Countries
Some of a unfamiliar rising marketplace countries embody Brazil Russia, India, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Israel, as good as even New Zealand as good as Australia can be included. Part of a captivate of multiform of these countries is that their altogether marketplace worth is significantly reduce than a US marketplace value. For example: trade a 5 dollar batch can suggest incomparable commission earnings formed upon a given collateral investment than a $50 batch given of a inlet of incomparable numbers contra not as big numbers.
Smaller numbers can enlarge some-more fast upon a commission basement than incomparable numbers with a given turn of investment. This actuality alone allows rising markets to suggest incomparable commission returns. For example, a complete US batch marketplace is valued over $21 trillion, where China’s complete batch marketplace is valued during we estimate $1.6 trillion. For a $21 trillion marketplace to stand in in worth to $42 trillion is a significantly some-more formidable attainment than a $1.6 trillion marketplace doubling to $3.2 trillion.
Foreign Emerging Markets with Manufacturing as good as Agricultural Power
Meanwhile a rising countries all have poignant rural prolongation as good as flourishing prolongation production. The turn of comprehensive prolongation is not as vicious as a expansion rate of a prolongation of assorted industries, both rural as good as manufacturing; given batch markets in a unfamiliar marketplace or an rising marketplace have been a destiny presaging device.
Foreign rising markets suggest poignant distinction intensity in a batch locus given their populations have been growing, mostly during a rate stand in or three times of a grown Western world, with a difference of Russia, additionally given they have been prolongation as good as flourishing agriculturally. Brazil, for example, has turn a single of a heading producers of cotton, corn, as good as soy even displacing a U.S. in a little markets.
One of a hurdles of investing in rising markets or unfamiliar markets is that these markets have significantly aloft marketplace sensitivity or risk. One process mitigating this risk is to occupy 15% stop loss, in all marketplace investments. With this stop detriment used for unfamiliar marketplace investing a extensive distinction intensity can be enjoyed whilst tying a contingent crashes that trouble unfamiliar rising markets frequently. Additionally, banking waste used to be a usual complaint with unfamiliar marketplace investing. The dollar for example has been shifting opposite many currencies, a worth of a unfamiliar banking has combined to a earnings upon unfamiliar marketplace investing. Ultimately, depending upon that markets we have been investing, with banking fluctuations it is probable to have income both upon a investment as good as upon a acclimatisation behind to your own currency.
About a Author: Stephen Holmes is a Senior Vice President during Hypo Venture Capital, with knowledge in a Financial Services attention travelling over 25ys as good as 3 Continents. Stephen now directs a Portfolio Risk Management Group after relocating from a Equity Derivatives Research Group 3yrs ago. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics as good as has been operative in a pick investment attention given 1992. His interests embody exemplary music, celebration of a mass as good as he mostly is a guest orator during corporate functions with a concentration upon Technology in Society.
Want to know more?
Hypo Venture Capital Zurich, Switzerland is an eccentric investment advisory organisation that focuses upon tellurian equities as good as options markets. Our methodical tools, screening techniques, severe investigate methods as good as committed staff yield plain report to assistance a clients have a most appropriate probable investment decisions. All views, comments, statements as good as opinions have been of a authors. For some-more report go to www.hypovc.com.
Foreign markets have been mostly referred to as rising markets if anything, though a European marketplace is included. Foreign batch markets have been charity incomparable earnings than a U.S. batch marketplace for many of this decade, partly given they begin out during a reduce base. Investors unprotected to unfamiliar marketplace expansion intensity of a rising countries, can bound upon a high-return gravy train, so prolonged as they equivocate a float off a precipice that has happened mostly with rising marketplace stocks.
Here during Hypo Venture Capital Zurich, Switzerland we have been committed to charity a clients entrance to a ultimate as good as broadest operation of monetary services as good as products upon a market. We know that selecting a right strategy, a right investment as good as a right product is no easy charge in this day as good as age! Whether a advice, investments or monetary formulation we have been here to answer all your questions as good as promote all your monetary needs.
Foreign Markets Include BRIC as good as Feeder Countries
Some of a unfamiliar rising marketplace countries embody Brazil Russia, India, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Israel, as good as even New Zealand as good as Australia can be included. Part of a captivate of multiform of these countries is that their altogether marketplace worth is significantly reduce than a US marketplace value. For example: trade a 5 dollar batch can suggest incomparable commission earnings formed upon a given collateral investment than a $50 batch given of a inlet of incomparable numbers contra not as big numbers.
Smaller numbers can enlarge some-more fast upon a commission basement than incomparable numbers with a given turn of investment. This actuality alone allows rising markets to suggest incomparable commission returns. For example, a complete US batch marketplace is valued over $21 trillion, where China’s complete batch marketplace is valued during we estimate $1.6 trillion. For a $21 trillion marketplace to stand in in worth to $42 trillion is a significantly some-more formidable attainment than a $1.6 trillion marketplace doubling to $3.2 trillion.
Foreign Emerging Markets with Manufacturing as good as Agricultural Power
Meanwhile a rising countries all have poignant rural prolongation as good as flourishing prolongation production. The turn of comprehensive prolongation is not as vicious as a expansion rate of a prolongation of assorted industries, both rural as good as manufacturing; given batch markets in a unfamiliar marketplace or an rising marketplace have been a destiny presaging device.
Foreign rising markets suggest poignant distinction intensity in a batch locus given their populations have been growing, mostly during a rate stand in or three times of a grown Western world, with a difference of Russia, additionally given they have been prolongation as good as flourishing agriculturally. Brazil, for example, has turn a single of a heading producers of cotton, corn, as good as soy even displacing a U.S. in a little markets.
One of a hurdles of investing in rising markets or unfamiliar markets is that these markets have significantly aloft marketplace sensitivity or risk. One process mitigating this risk is to occupy 15% stop loss, in all marketplace investments. With this stop detriment used for unfamiliar marketplace investing a extensive distinction intensity can be enjoyed whilst tying a contingent crashes that trouble unfamiliar rising markets frequently. Additionally, banking waste used to be a usual complaint with unfamiliar marketplace investing. The dollar for example has been shifting opposite many currencies, a worth of a unfamiliar banking has combined to a earnings upon unfamiliar marketplace investing. Ultimately, depending upon that markets we have been investing, with banking fluctuations it is probable to have income both upon a investment as good as upon a acclimatisation behind to your own currency.
About a Author: Stephen Holmes is a Senior Vice President during Hypo Venture Capital, with knowledge in a Financial Services attention travelling over 25ys as good as 3 Continents. Stephen now directs a Portfolio Risk Management Group after relocating from a Equity Derivatives Research Group 3yrs ago. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics as good as has been operative in a pick investment attention given 1992. His interests embody exemplary music, celebration of a mass as good as he mostly is a guest orator during corporate functions with a concentration upon Technology in Society.
Want to know more?
Hypo Venture Capital Zurich, Switzerland is an eccentric investment advisory organisation that focuses upon tellurian equities as good as options markets. Our methodical tools, screening techniques, severe investigate methods as good as committed staff yield plain report to assistance a clients have a most appropriate probable investment decisions. All views, comments, statements as good as opinions have been of a authors. For some-more report go to www.hypovc.com.
Hypo Venture Capital Why Invest Offshore
http://www.sooperarticles.com/finance-articles/hypo-venture-capital-why-invest-offshore-201492.htmlHere at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs
What are the benefits available to you from the world of offshore savings, investment, finance and banking?
Even in this day and age of enlightenment thanks to the pervasive nature of information dissemination via the internet, some people are still concerned about the legalities and legitimacy of the offshore world of finance and banking. For some reason others simply assume that onshore equates to a 'safe haven' for money and offshore equates to a 'risky tax haven.'
Well, you and I know that that is simply not the case! However, even though it is now clearer to more people that the offshore world holds many potential taxation benefits, there are still questions to be answered about why one should invest offshore and in this article we explore the benefits.
First things first...here's another myth I wish to dispel – some people say that offshore investments and bank accounts are more lightly regulated than their entity-type-counterparts onshore...now, that's not necessarily true!
Yes, certain jurisdictions give fund managers, bankers and investors pretty much free rein so that the rewards and risks are potentially far greater – but some jurisdictions are very highly regarded among financial professionals simply because of the incredibly high standards of protection they afford investors and account holders through insurance schemes and government regulation requirements for example:
The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are examples of offshore jurisdictions where offshore investment and saving policy or bank account holders are afforded high levels of protection. Just taking the Isle of Man – it offers policyholder protection schemes, it also has the highest financial services rating issued by the OECD, FATF and FSF and it has an independent Financial Services Ombudsman scheme not to mention the fact that both Standard and Poor's and Moody's have given the Isle of Man AAA ratings.
So – myth dispelled, let's move on.
In terms of the benefits available when investing offshore they will always, always depend on the particular circumstances of the individual investor - but offshore financial services and structures can be used as part of an overall asset protection strategy for example, investing offshore can afford an investor greater flexibility in terms of international accessibility and the commodities, equities, derivatives, stocks, shares or companies they can invest in, plus there are of course sometimes significant taxation benefits available to an account holder depending on their countries of tax residence and domicile.
Other answers to the question posed by this article – namely 'why invest offshore?' – are because there are general benefits available including more efficient estate planning potential, privacy and confidentiality, better interest returns, the chance to exploit active business interests overseas in low or no tax locations and global access to assets and income.
So, while the internet has been fantastic in terms of allowing more people to become far more broadly informed - especially about subjects as seemingly taboo as all things offshore - it is still absolutely in a government's interests to avoid advising people that the offshore world is open and available to them because they may well lose out on taxation revenue as a result! This means it is up to independent websites such as World Financial Asset Advisory to give you free access to facts and general information and for you to then see how and why such information is or is not applicable to your own personal circumstances. At which stage you can then take specific and expert advice from a qualified individual as to how you can best utilize the offshore world.
And on that final note there is just one more thing to say! A potential investor (you) has to be absolutely sure that the actions they are about to take in terms of placing assets offshore will be of benefit to them. Additionally they need to make sure that they are acting legally, that a company they are entrusting with their money is legitimate and that they understand the risks associated with their decisions.
To that end we at Hypo Venture Capital will always advise that you should to do your own due diligence on the jurisdiction recommended to you or chosen by you, the company you are considering investing or banking with and the policy or account you are taking out. Common sense is the main key to ensuring you do not make a mistake when entering the world of offshore finance and common sense is something we here at Hypo Venture Capital pride ourselves on!
About the Author:
Stephen Holmes is a Senior Vice President at Hypo Venture Capital, with experience in the Financial Services industry spanning over 25ys and 3 Continents. Stephen currently directs the Portfolio Risk Management Group after moving from the Equity Derivatives Research Group 3yrs ago. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics and has been working in the alternative investment industry since 1992. His interests include classical music, reading and he often is a guest speaker at corporate functions with a focus on 'Technology in Society'.
What are the benefits available to you from the world of offshore savings, investment, finance and banking?
Even in this day and age of enlightenment thanks to the pervasive nature of information dissemination via the internet, some people are still concerned about the legalities and legitimacy of the offshore world of finance and banking. For some reason others simply assume that onshore equates to a 'safe haven' for money and offshore equates to a 'risky tax haven.'
Well, you and I know that that is simply not the case! However, even though it is now clearer to more people that the offshore world holds many potential taxation benefits, there are still questions to be answered about why one should invest offshore and in this article we explore the benefits.
First things first...here's another myth I wish to dispel – some people say that offshore investments and bank accounts are more lightly regulated than their entity-type-counterparts onshore...now, that's not necessarily true!
Yes, certain jurisdictions give fund managers, bankers and investors pretty much free rein so that the rewards and risks are potentially far greater – but some jurisdictions are very highly regarded among financial professionals simply because of the incredibly high standards of protection they afford investors and account holders through insurance schemes and government regulation requirements for example:
The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are examples of offshore jurisdictions where offshore investment and saving policy or bank account holders are afforded high levels of protection. Just taking the Isle of Man – it offers policyholder protection schemes, it also has the highest financial services rating issued by the OECD, FATF and FSF and it has an independent Financial Services Ombudsman scheme not to mention the fact that both Standard and Poor's and Moody's have given the Isle of Man AAA ratings.
So – myth dispelled, let's move on.
In terms of the benefits available when investing offshore they will always, always depend on the particular circumstances of the individual investor - but offshore financial services and structures can be used as part of an overall asset protection strategy for example, investing offshore can afford an investor greater flexibility in terms of international accessibility and the commodities, equities, derivatives, stocks, shares or companies they can invest in, plus there are of course sometimes significant taxation benefits available to an account holder depending on their countries of tax residence and domicile.
Other answers to the question posed by this article – namely 'why invest offshore?' – are because there are general benefits available including more efficient estate planning potential, privacy and confidentiality, better interest returns, the chance to exploit active business interests overseas in low or no tax locations and global access to assets and income.
So, while the internet has been fantastic in terms of allowing more people to become far more broadly informed - especially about subjects as seemingly taboo as all things offshore - it is still absolutely in a government's interests to avoid advising people that the offshore world is open and available to them because they may well lose out on taxation revenue as a result! This means it is up to independent websites such as World Financial Asset Advisory to give you free access to facts and general information and for you to then see how and why such information is or is not applicable to your own personal circumstances. At which stage you can then take specific and expert advice from a qualified individual as to how you can best utilize the offshore world.
And on that final note there is just one more thing to say! A potential investor (you) has to be absolutely sure that the actions they are about to take in terms of placing assets offshore will be of benefit to them. Additionally they need to make sure that they are acting legally, that a company they are entrusting with their money is legitimate and that they understand the risks associated with their decisions.
To that end we at Hypo Venture Capital will always advise that you should to do your own due diligence on the jurisdiction recommended to you or chosen by you, the company you are considering investing or banking with and the policy or account you are taking out. Common sense is the main key to ensuring you do not make a mistake when entering the world of offshore finance and common sense is something we here at Hypo Venture Capital pride ourselves on!
About the Author:
Stephen Holmes is a Senior Vice President at Hypo Venture Capital, with experience in the Financial Services industry spanning over 25ys and 3 Continents. Stephen currently directs the Portfolio Risk Management Group after moving from the Equity Derivatives Research Group 3yrs ago. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics and has been working in the alternative investment industry since 1992. His interests include classical music, reading and he often is a guest speaker at corporate functions with a focus on 'Technology in Society'.
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Hypo Venture Capital is an independent investment advisory firm which focuses on global equities and options markets. Our analytical tools, screening techniques, rigorous research methods and committed staff provide solid information to help our clients make the best possible investment decisions. All views, comments, statements and opinions are of the authors.
Hypo Venture Capital Investing Money: Good Investments for the Investor Who Feels Clueless
http://www.thegetrichquick.com/hypo-venture-capital-investing-money-good-investments-for-the-investor-who-feels-clueless/Article by Stephen Holmes
Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.
In 2011 and into the future most folks in search of good investments will again turn to mutual funds for investing money, and for good reason. These funds do the money investing for you and try to pick good investments for their (your) portfolio. It’s your money and you pick the funds, so in case you feel clueless, here we take the mystery out of investing for 2011 and beyond by getting back to basics.
In the process of investing money for the future you really only have 4 basic choices. That was true 100 years ago and still applies in 2011 and beyond. There are good safe investments that pay interest, bonds that pay more interest, stocks that grow in value most of the time; and alternative investments like gold & other commodities including real estate that offer growth opportunities sometimes when stocks don’t. Those are your basic choices when investing money unless you bury the stuff, in which case inflation and decomposition can eat away at your underground deposit.
Now let’s look at each of these 4 alternatives for investing money in search of good investments in mutual funds. Cash in the bank is safe and so are money market securities. These don’t look like good investments now because interest rates are near all-time lows. That won’t always be the case, so put some money in money market funds for safety.
Bond funds are a good way for most folks to invest money in bonds and they do pay higher interest income, but they are not really safe investments as most folks have been lead to believe. When today’s record low interest rates start to go up, most bonds and the funds that invest your money in them will be real losers. Memorize this statement: when rates go up bond prices (values) go down. The key to investing money in bond funds for 2011 and beyond is this: put money in short-term and intermediate-term bonds funds while avoiding long-term bond funds. The latter will get crushed if (when) interest rates turn around and go up.
Stocks are our third category, and stock mutual funds are the best way of investing money in them for average and especially clueless investors. The truth is that for 2011 and beyond this is the wild card. High unemployment and slow growth in the economy don’t paint a pretty picture here, but the other choices don’t look great either. Put some money in dividend-paying high-quality diversified stock funds. Avoid riskier growth funds that invest money in stocks that don’t pay dividends.
Investors who overlook other alternatives miss some good investments because of this oversight. Investing money in the likes of gold, oil, real estate and basic materials is greatly simplified by simply investing in specialty stock funds that specialize in these areas. The advantage here: these funds can add additional diversification to your portfolio because they sometimes produce profits when the stock market is weak.
We have covered your 4 basic choices starting with safe investments and getting progressively riskier. Investing money for 2011 and beyond simply amounts to covering all 4 bases, emphasizing the funds that best fit your risk profile. One year’s good investments might not be repeat performers the next year, but with a diversified portfolio of funds working for you you’ve got good odds for success.
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Hypo Venture Capital is an independent investment advisory firm which focuses on global equities and options markets. Our analytical tools, screening techniques, rigorous research methods and committed staff provide solid information to help our clients make the best possible investment decisions. All views, comments, statements and opinions are of the authors. For more information go to http://www.hypovc.com
About the Author
Hypo Venture Capital is an independent investment advisory firm which focuses on global equities and options markets. For more information go to http://www.hypovc.com
Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.
In 2011 and into the future most folks in search of good investments will again turn to mutual funds for investing money, and for good reason. These funds do the money investing for you and try to pick good investments for their (your) portfolio. It’s your money and you pick the funds, so in case you feel clueless, here we take the mystery out of investing for 2011 and beyond by getting back to basics.
In the process of investing money for the future you really only have 4 basic choices. That was true 100 years ago and still applies in 2011 and beyond. There are good safe investments that pay interest, bonds that pay more interest, stocks that grow in value most of the time; and alternative investments like gold & other commodities including real estate that offer growth opportunities sometimes when stocks don’t. Those are your basic choices when investing money unless you bury the stuff, in which case inflation and decomposition can eat away at your underground deposit.
Now let’s look at each of these 4 alternatives for investing money in search of good investments in mutual funds. Cash in the bank is safe and so are money market securities. These don’t look like good investments now because interest rates are near all-time lows. That won’t always be the case, so put some money in money market funds for safety.
Bond funds are a good way for most folks to invest money in bonds and they do pay higher interest income, but they are not really safe investments as most folks have been lead to believe. When today’s record low interest rates start to go up, most bonds and the funds that invest your money in them will be real losers. Memorize this statement: when rates go up bond prices (values) go down. The key to investing money in bond funds for 2011 and beyond is this: put money in short-term and intermediate-term bonds funds while avoiding long-term bond funds. The latter will get crushed if (when) interest rates turn around and go up.
Stocks are our third category, and stock mutual funds are the best way of investing money in them for average and especially clueless investors. The truth is that for 2011 and beyond this is the wild card. High unemployment and slow growth in the economy don’t paint a pretty picture here, but the other choices don’t look great either. Put some money in dividend-paying high-quality diversified stock funds. Avoid riskier growth funds that invest money in stocks that don’t pay dividends.
Investors who overlook other alternatives miss some good investments because of this oversight. Investing money in the likes of gold, oil, real estate and basic materials is greatly simplified by simply investing in specialty stock funds that specialize in these areas. The advantage here: these funds can add additional diversification to your portfolio because they sometimes produce profits when the stock market is weak.
We have covered your 4 basic choices starting with safe investments and getting progressively riskier. Investing money for 2011 and beyond simply amounts to covering all 4 bases, emphasizing the funds that best fit your risk profile. One year’s good investments might not be repeat performers the next year, but with a diversified portfolio of funds working for you you’ve got good odds for success.
Want to know more?
Hypo Venture Capital is an independent investment advisory firm which focuses on global equities and options markets. Our analytical tools, screening techniques, rigorous research methods and committed staff provide solid information to help our clients make the best possible investment decisions. All views, comments, statements and opinions are of the authors. For more information go to http://www.hypovc.com
About the Author
Hypo Venture Capital is an independent investment advisory firm which focuses on global equities and options markets. For more information go to http://www.hypovc.com
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