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The Best Safe Investment in 2010?
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September 3, 2010 @ 10:51 am |
As the UK heads into a period of extended inflation, low interest rates and volatile stock markets, investors are looking for safe investments to preserve and grow capital. Many investors are turning to gold as prices continue to rise due to an increasing demand from investors, but more savvy money men consider farmland to be the safest investment in 2010 as demand for food continues to rise and a severe shortage on the supply side continues to push up prices and create safer investment returns. Farmland is considering a safe investment as it is a renewable resource, constantly reproducing......
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The Best Inflation Hedge - Farmland Or Gold?
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September 3, 2010 @ 10:26 am |
Farmland is an almost perfect inflation hedge investment, as agricultural land values have continued to rise for the last ten years. There has in fact not been a single seven year period that farmland values in the UK have fallen since record began, and as the demand for food is rising at the fastest pace in history, the next seven years is extremely unlikely to be the first time that happens....
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Reducing Risk For Income Oriented Investors
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September 3, 2010 @ 7:43 am |
Some investors have been led to believe that their best option for reducing risk means investing in dividend paying securities. This, everyone knows, involves 100% equity exposure and results in greater risk. We look at one solution that does not result in 100% equity exposure, a particular concern for risk-averse income oriented investors....
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Amarillo National Bank - Find the Best CD Rates 2010
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September 3, 2010 @ 7:37 am |
Amarillo National Bank, one of America's best banks offers the citizens of America with several facilities and benefits. Here you can invest your savings and consequently the interest rates that you would get from it are high. In fact, you would get absolute security by investing in this bank....
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A Primer on Bond Investing
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September 3, 2010 @ 7:34 am |
So many people have been switching their investments out of equities and moving them into bonds. If the fixed income asset class appeals to you, this article discusses three basic characteristics of bond investing that you should know about....
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Investment Fund Types
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September 3, 2010 @ 6:37 am |
New to investment funds? We look at the different investment fund types in this brief article to help you get a quick start to the exciting investment journey ahead of you....
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In-House Counsel Predict Rise In Securities Spending
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
As businesses seek to settle lingering lawsuits related to the financial crisis and defend against new challenges brought by shareholders, investors and the government, corporate spending on securities litigation will rise 2.1 percent in 2011, according to a new survey of corporate counsel....
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Equity Holder Plan Values Tronox At $1.25Bn
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
Equity security holders of Tronox Inc. have filed a rival reorganization plan that puts a total value of about $1.25 billion on the bankrupt chemical company, around $400 million more than a plan Tronox submitted....
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Whistleblower In $4B Ponzi Scheme Case Gets 1 Year
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
The whistleblower who helped prosecutors bring down business magnate Thomas J. Petters' $3.6 billion Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to a year in prison for her own role in the fraud, which ultimately helped throw Polaroid Corp. into bankruptcy....
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Chesapeake Energy Securities Action Survives
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
A federal judge has denied a request by natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. to throw out a putative class action that accuses the company of omitting from registration filings key information about its financial activities ahead of a 25 million-share public offering....
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Petters Creditor Loses Bid To Oust Trustee
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
Hedge fund Ritchie Special Credit Investments Ltd. has failed to undo the appointment of a bankruptcy trustee for affiliates of convicted Ponzi schemer Thomas J. Petters or win the right to intervene in a government seizure action against the fraud artist....
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Goldman Sachs Seeks To Toss Basis’ $1.6B Suit
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has argued that Basis Yield Alpha Fund can’t bring its $1.6 billion suit in the U.S. alleging Goldman’s sale of subprime mortgage-backed securities drove the Australian hedge fund into insolvency because the transaction occurred in Australia....
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CNG Hit With Class Action Over SEC Nondisclosure
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September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 pm |
A putative class of China Natural Gas Inc. stockholders has accused the company and its executives of fraudulently omitting a $17.6 million bank loan from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, alleging the action caused the company’s stock to trade at artificially inflated levels for five months in 2010....
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The materials below are reprinted as originally p...
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