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Safe High Return Investments Baltimore
Want To Earn Higher Returns On Your Investments? Welcome to Safe High Return Investments Baltimore.
If you’re like most investors today, you’re probably pretty frustrated about the returns you’re getting on your investments lately. That’s why I created this site. Like you, I was tired of the low returns I was getting om traditional investments like certificates of deposit (CDs), money markets or even short term commercial paper.
There Are Lots Of Ways To Earn More On Your Money Than Banks Are Currently Paying
So, I set out to find out about other investments that could offer me the potential to earn a higher rate of return than those typical bank investments were paying. What I found is that there are lots of other investments out there that pay high returns, including real estate, private lending, the stock market, mutual funds and even commodities, options and more.
High Returns Are Great, But What About Risk and Safety?
While I wanted to earn a high rate of return on my money, I also wanted to be sure that I wasn’t getting into something risky. After all, we work hard to save money and the last thing we want is to invest it in something and lose it. Well, after quite a bit of investigating, I finally found a way to earn an above average rate of return on my money, while at the same time having more than just a piece of paper (like a stock or bond) to back it up.
Let’s face it, we all learned our lessons with the Enron debacle. You can have all the stock experts saying something is safe and a good investment, but the bottom line is that your fate is completely dependent on something you don’t understand at all or have any control over. I mean, how many Enron investors understood energy grids and offshore swaps and all the other complicated stuff those guys were doing?
Private Lending, Joint Ventures & Real Estate Investing Can Offer Both Safety And High Returns
What I found is that real estate investing, either as a financial partner with an experienced real estate investor, or private money loans where you loan money to someone who is investing in real estate, and then you secure your loan with the property the real estate investor is buying, can actually offer a high return on your investment, plus the security of a lien on the property that is being purchased.
That way, if the loan can’t be paid back, or if things don’t work out with the real estate investor’s deal, you at least have that property that you can sell and get your money back. You can get additional protection on this type of investment by insisting on title insurance (to ensure that you are covered in the event of any ownership disputes involving the property) and casualty insurance (to ensure that you are covered in the event that something happens to the property like a fire).
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This site is designed to share with you my experiences in using real estate investing, joint ventures and private lending to earn more with safe high return investments in Baltimore and Maryland, and to help you maximize your return on investing. I’ve also gathered information here for you on other high return investments, some safe and some more risky, just so you can see as many of the different options as I can find to share.
I’ll include case studies and other information as I find and experience them. I invite you to join me in sharing investing ideas and information about investing, and I hope you’ll let me send you my FREE Special Report on how to double or triple the returns that banks are paying. It’s a great read and filled with a lot of valuable information you can start using right away to improve your returns and investing options.
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Nov
18
Safe High Return Investments Baltimore
We all want high returns, but the fact is most high return investments will give you big losing periods or worse still, a wipe out of your cash.
Here we will look at a high return investment with a very low risk.
It can give the potential to make 30- 50% + per annum or more and downside is minimal.
Letâ??s look at the facts of this high return investment.
Here we will take a look at a property investment overseas thatâ??s cheap, easy to do and allows you to leverage your cash in an area PROVEN to offer high returns and low risk.
This investment far cheaper and easier to do than you may think.
Costa Rica has been making solid gains for years for example:
A property in the town of Jaco purchased for $30,000 just 15 years ago, is worth as much as $750,000 today, but it gets better.
Not only do you have an appreciating asset you can also use it as holiday home or earn a great second income in the booming rental market.
An easy and cheap way to enter this market
Here we will look at the concept of leverage.
This simply means putting a deposit down BEFORE The property is built and making gains on the FULL Value.
Fact: Properties that are not yet built increase in value by the time the construction is complete.
To give an example of how buying before completion makes money consider the following:
You place a $40,000 deposit 20% down, on a $200,000 property and it takes 2 years to complete, at typical 20% per annum.
After two years the property can be sold for $300,000, giving a profit of $100,000 in just two years on a $40,000 down payment!
This is a high return, but what about the risk – The past maybe good but what about the future?
Buying from a realtor before build normally ensures a good location and Costa Rica property shows no signs of slowing growth rates.
The reason
Beach front property here is still 7O % less than in the southern USA. People are looking just a 3 hour direct flight south to own their own slice of paradise at affordable cost.
So the boom will continue as Americans in particular, look for affordable beach front property and cheap retirement destinations.
This high return investment has produced gains with low risk and the trend should remain the same.
Other advantages include:
Easy buying procedure, same rights as residents, low property tax, a tax efficient investment in one of the most stable and beautiful countries in the world.
Add up all the facts
Not only can you own a slice of paradise, it can also make you a lot of money and build long term wealth.
Itâ??s easier and cheaper to do than most people imagine.If you are looking for a high return investment with low risk, check out the above in more detail.
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Nov
18
Safe High Return Investments Baltimore
Kicking off the evaluation process is the toughest for us. Question after question kept popping up “Is the property market low enough?”, “Is this property worth considering?”, “Are the numbers the only criteria for investment?” What are we really looking for in real estate investing?? Quick bucks $$ or Regular income…Bottom-line = Money!!!Property Agents have tons of recommendations for YOU! How will you know whether they are good investment for you?There are many factors that need to be considered in evaluating a real estate investment. For example, location, environment/neighborhood, facilities, financing options, rental income, etc. If all above works, it is time calling your agents and set up appointments. Happy Viewings!!!!Actually it is not difficult and it does not need much of your time to know if a real estate investment is worth investing in the first place. All you need is crunching some numbers with your calculator, and Bingo! You can decide whether the property is worth investing.Later in this article, we will show you how these numbers work in your prospective real estate investment by two real life cases in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.Numbering GAMENumbers, numbers and numbers.. How do you get them?You may try calling a few property agents, check with banks on properties valuations and of course there is plenty of information on the Internet. Once you have these numbers you can determine if a real estate investment is worth spending your time for a viewing. “Seeing is Believing.” Check out the property to see the actual condition and the environment, whether it is to your liking once you get your numbers RIGHT! Once you get your numbers, you will see:IncomesOne-time income – selling priceRegular income – rental priceCostsOne-time expenses (startup costs) – down payment, agent’s brokerage, legal fees, stamp duty, furnishing cost, etc.Regular expenses (monthly costs) – monthly loan repayment, monthly maintenance fee, quit rent, property tax, etc.See how they (numbers) work..The basic requirement for a good real estate investment is that the income it generates must be more than its costs.If the selling price of a real estate investment is more than its purchase price and startup costs, this investment generates capital gain. If the rental income of a real estate investment is more than its monthly expenses, this investment generates cash flow. If you are looking for capital gain, the gain or loss depends very much on the real estate market. Hoping to make money from capital gain on real estate is like buying a product and hoping the value of the product will go up with time. On a long term basis, real estate will be appreciating in value because of inflation, but the gain is not guaranteed.On the other hand, a real estate investment that generates cash flow effectively put money into your pocket every month, while your equity in the real estate investment increases over time. This is the real estate investment that we are looking for – an investment worth investing.Too good to be true?With this recession time, you will ask yourself, “Is it the RIGHT time for me to start investing in real estate? Everything is so uncertain NOW.” In Johor Bahru, you can find plenty of real estate investments worth investing at this juncture. We discovered most of these investments that generate substantial cash flow are mainly apartments or condominiums. You can read from our upcoming article to know why apartments or condominiums are better real estate investments in Johor Bahru. Here are two recent real life cases of real estate investments worth investing in Johor Bahru.Case 1: We found a condominium in Larkin area of Johor Bahru in Octorber 2008 selling at $160,000 with existing tenant. Monthly rental income is $1400 while monthly maintenance cost is around $300 (maintenance fee plus sinking fund plus quit rent). If we finance 90% of the purchase price to buy this condominium with interest rate 4.85% with a tenure of 30 years, monthly loan repayment is estimated to be $760. Thus, this condominium is generating a net cash flow of $340 every month, $4080 every year. Total capital outlay for this investment is $24,000 for down payment including other startup costs like legal fee and brokerage. Effectively this investment gives us a yearly cash-on-cash return of 18.5%. In other words, within 6 years we would be able to take back our capital $24,000! The best thing is we still own the condominium. It will keep putting money into our pocket every month. We also have the option to sell it away when the market is good.Case 2: There is a 3-rooms apartment in Tampoi sold at $125,000 in Octorber 2008. Monthly maintenance cost is about $150. If we finance 90% of the purchase price with interest rate 4.85% with a tenure of 30 years, monthly loan repayment is estimated to be $600. Expected rental income for a fully furnished apartment in the area is about $1200. With furnishing cost of $10,000, total capital required for this investment is around $27,000, while total monthly cost is $750. The apartment is expected to generate a net cash flow of $450 every month, $5400 every year. Cash-on-cash return on this investment is 20% which we can expect to take back all the capital within 5 years.Sound interesting right? Of course, so far we are only talking about numbers. A good real estate investment does not rely on purely numbers. You still have to go and have a look at the building structures, study the location and neighborhood, and perform other checks before you make your decision. What we have discussed, however, can save you time and give you more ideas on the potential returns of a real estate investment before you tell your agent which real estate you want to view in the coming weekend.
Read more about real estate investment tips at http://reijb.com
We write regularly about real estate investment. Some of our featured articles include:
“How to estimate the value of a property?”
“Why apartment can be the best real estate investment?”
“How important is location to an investment real estate?”
Coming from a humble little town called Tangkak in north Johor state of Malaysia, OngKL has chances to learn and work both in Johor Bahru and Singapore – a conurbation with 6.49 million still fast growing population – since year 1996. He is now having a chance to contribute back to the community by sharing what he sees, what he knows and what he learns in this wonderful place.
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Nov
16
Safe High Return Investments Baltimore – - Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots
Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots
Sí, Money! (http://simoney.us) By Michael Grodsky
If I have to be an idiot, at the least I’m a green idiot. I believe in clean air, corporate responsibility, community activism, licorice, pizza and Thai food. And healthy living, freedom, and of course freedom raisins.
Shiny happy raisins
I love trees, sky, and ah, the OXYGEN! But I’m worried about the dismal state of health care, education funding, the ozone hole, the Medicare donut hole, and your little dog too! Did you know the North Pole is melting? That really scares me. Plus I need to cut down on my Chunky Monkey intake.
In everything I do, in every move I make, it seems that I’m part of the worldwide web of production and consumption. So I pertly place my recyclables in the blue bin, our family uses reusable grocery bags, and I vote. What more can a light-switch thumping, gasoline-pumping 21st century fox do?
C’mon, baby, light my SRI fire…
It was only a couple of years ago a friend remarked to me that real estate was the only investment that made any sense, as if his seat on the Ferris Wheel of investments, propelled by an invincible source, would forever be going up, up, UP! Instead, what happened was “up, up and away.”
The first Ferris wheel, from 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago
The desire for a sure thing is hard to resist. Albert Einstein, succumbing to pressure to support the idea of a static universe, in his 1917 paper added an adjustment number called the “cosmological constant” to his equation for general relativity. In 1931 he publicly renounced this static cosmology and endorsed the Big Bang expanding universe model, ditching the cosmological constant and returning to his original equation. He later called his bowing to peer pressure the greatest blunder of his entire life. You can read about the adventure in author Simon Singh’s “Big Bang – The Origin of the Universe.”
Many philanthropic foundations have long drawn a wall between their socially conscious mission statements that drive grant making, and the investment holdings of their endowment. There is a truism that investing for social benefit results in lower returns. But just as scientific peer consensus eventually embraced the Big Bang theory, so has the thinking of philanthropic foundations changed. The reasons are twofold: A recognition that corporate responsibility and societal concerns are valid parts of investment decisions, (1) and a growing number of academic studies have demonstrated that socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds perform competitively with non-SRI funds over time. (2)
For example, according to University of Maastricht and Erasmus University Rotterdam economists in their prize-winning paper, “we find little evidence of significant differences in risk-adjusted returns between ethical and conventional funds for the 1990-2001 period.” (3)
Foundation investment choices seem to be increasingly guided by effect upon society as a whole, not just financial gain, according to a recent Los Angeles Times article. (4) Fresh thinking in the nation’s largest foundations may be driving the impetus ever faster: The $8.5-billion William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park), the $6.1-billion John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), the $7.8-billion W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Michigan) all have made recent changes to improve the social effect of their investments. (5)
SRI assets are also growing faster than assets as a whole: according to the non-profit Social Investment Forum’s 2005 biennial report, SRI assets rose more than 258 percent from $639 billion in 1995 to $2.29 trillion in 2005. Over those ten years, SRI assets grew four percent faster than the entire universe of managed assets in the United States. (6)
Some have already been on the SRI track: the nation’s second largest foundation, the Ford Foundation, along with others such as the F.B. Herron Foundation, the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and the Nathan Cumings Foundation, have for a long time aligned their charitable and investment practices.
What is Socially Responsible Investing? Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is a broad-based approach to investing that now encompasses an estimated $2.3 trillion out of $24 trillion in the U.S. investment marketplace today. (7) The release of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment–subscribed to by some of the world’s largest institutional investors, asset managers, and related organizations representing over $9 trillion in assets as of mid- 2007–underscores the widespread acceptance of the principle that investors cannot, in the long run, achieve their goals by investing in corporations that externalize their costs onto society. (8)
How do I research SRI funds? A good place to start is the Social Investment Forum (http://www.socialinvest.org). Look at the resource list at the end of this article too.
How do I start investing? If you participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan, there may be SRI funds already available to you. If you manage your own IRA or other plan, look into what’s available. But don’t just go adding a fund without considering the entire makeup of your portfolio.
The key to earning decent long-term returns and limiting overall risk is to have a proper asset allocation, meaning you don’t have all your eggs in one basket. For do-it-yourself-ers, check out the government’s website about asset allocation (http://tinyurl.com/2825hw), or purchase “All About Asset Allocation” by Richard A. Ferri ($13.57 at Amazon), a great introduction to the topic. Your personal financial advisor or company where you have your investment or retirement accounts can help.
How do I know which funds will produce the highest returns? You don’t, you can’t, and you won’t, so just forget about it because past performance doesn’t predict future results. The day-to-day ups and downs of the market receive the media attention, but the daily, quarterly, or even yearly returns are largely irrelevant in constructing an individual’s portfolio whose objectives are long-range. What you want to look for are funds that perform well over the long run within their particular sector, as compared to the appropriate benchmark indices. Various areas of the economy are always moving up and down and sideways, and so far no one has ever been able to know ahead of time what the pattern will be. Asset allocation, I’ll say again, may be the key to long-term success in building a financially secure future. Not panicking helps too!
What makes an SRI fund different? If a prospective company is a fit according to a fund’s stated objectives, research is performed to determine whether or not it’s a good idea to buy stock at the current offering price. It boils down to the question “Within the guidelines of the stated objectives of the fund, will this purchase help to achieve the highest possible return for the fund’s shareholders?”
The three core socially responsible investing strategies are screening, shareholder advocacy, and community investing. Screening means a fund will include or exclude companies based upon criteria such as alcohol, tobacco, animal testing, and human rights, among others. These screens can be positive (e.g., including companies that treat employees well) or negative (e.g., excluding companies who do business with disturbed musicians).
Keep in mind that, as with all mutual funds, SRI funds have no guarantees of future return.
In any case, you’d better take this lad’s offering of raisins!
If you use electricity, drive a car, and participate in many other activities of daily living, in a very true sense you are already investing in the companies that allow and encourage your consumption. In other words, you are part of the “market” whether or not you actually own stocks or mutual funds. Socially responsible investing can be a way to make your dollars work toward something in which you believe, and support those companies you believe have a vision in line with your own.
Resources and suggested reading
1. “The Mission in the Marketplace: How Responsible Investing Can Strengthen the Fiduciary Oversight of Foundation Endowments and Enhance Philanthropic Missions.” Social Investment Forum Foundation’s resource guide for foundations to manage risk and leverage their investment assets more fully with their core philanthropic purpose, while creating lasting value. http://tinyurl.com/35t49h 2. “10 best” list of companies. Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine rates the citizenship disclosures, policies and performance of large-cap, public companies in the following industries: Auto & Vehicles, Paper, Technology Hardware, Technology Software, Transport, and Travel & Lodging industries, Chemical, Energy, Financial, Media and Utilities industries. http://www.thecro.com/node/580 3. Social Science Research Network. http://www.ssrn.com/ 4. United Nations’ “The Principles for Responsible Investment.” An investor initiative in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact. http://www.unpri.org/ 5. The Social Investment Forum; national membership association dedicated to advancing the concept, practice, and growth of socially and environmentally responsible investing. http://www.socialinvest.org/ 6. Social Investment Forum’s 2005 biennial report. http://tinyurl.com/258794 7. Sristudies.org, a resource for quantitative aspects of socially responsible investing. Includes an annotated bibliography of studies of socially responsible investing. A project of the Moskowitz Research Program, which is affiliated with the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. 8. Socially Responsible Mutual Fund Charts of Financial Performance. http://www.socialinvest.org/resources/mfpc/ 9. SocialFunds.com, an advertising-driven website with information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news. 10. “Handbook on Responsible Investment Across Asset Classes.” For asset allocation junkies, individuals and institutional investors the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship created this work. http://tinyurl.com/2ffqbu
Footnotes
1. The Maturing of Socially Responsible Investment: A Review of the Developing Link with Corporate Social Responsibility by Russell Sparkes and Christopher J. Cowton. Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 52, Number 1 / June, 2004. 2. SriStudies.org 3. International Evidence on Ethical Mutual Fund Performance and Investment Style, paper by Rob Bauer, Kees Koedijk, Rogér Otten. Limburg Institute of Financial Economics, November 2002. (socialinvest.org/resources/research) 4. Foundations align investments with their charitable goals by Charles Piller, Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2007. Section C, p 1. 5. Ibid. 6. 2005 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States. Social Investment Forum. (www.socialinvest.org) 7. Socially Responsible Investing Facts. Social Investment Forum. www.socialinvest.org 8. PRI Report On Progress 2007. PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment), United Nations. (www.unpri.org)
Image credits
Sun-Maid/George Bush composite image • First Sun-Maid packaging to feature a likeness of Lorraine Collett as the “Sun-Maid Girl,” 1916. Designer unknown, incorporates painting by Fanny Scafford. Public domain in the United States. • Photograph of Bush speaking. Brazil, November 6, 2005. Agência Brasil, a public Brazilian news agency, produced photograph. Published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 2.5 Brazil. Fox/Morrison composite image • Foxes by Franz Marc, 1913. The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. Public Domain. • Jim Morrison portrait, 2007, by Amadeu.taradell. Released by author into public domain. Ferris Wheel/Superman composite image • The first Ferris wheel from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The New York Times photo archive. Public Domain. • Screenshot of 1941 cartoon Superman. Fleischer Studios. This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice, and its copyright was not renewed. Musician holding Valentine’s Day raisins composite image • Photo of musician Jeff Hawley, 2007. Manager, Marketing Content Pro Audio and Combo Division, Yamaha Corporation of America. Courtesy of Mr. Hawley. • Photo, August 3, 2005 by Mazbln. Halberstadt, Klosterkirche St. Burchardi, Ort des John-Cage-Projektes “As slow as possible.” Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. • Original painting of Lorraine Collett by Fanny Scafford, 1915, later used on Sun-Maid raisin packaging. Public domain in the United States.
This column is meant to provide general information, and should not be construed as providing investment, legal, or tax advice. There is no guarantee as to the accuracy or completeness of the information in this article. There are no guarantees of future return for any fund, nor an endorsement of any investment product. Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. For complete information on mutual funds including sales charges and expenses, call your financial professional for a prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. Links are provided herein as a courtesy, and no guarantees are made as to the accuracy of the content on the referenced websites.
Sí, Money! – Vol. 2, No. 1 February 2008 – http://simoney.us
Michael Grodsky (AquariusFinancial.com) is a fee-based financial planner in Los Angeles, California. He serves artists and non-profit organizations, helping them to align their investments with their values. He can be reached at 323-293-6800, michael@aquariusfinancial.com
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Nov
14
Safe High Return Investments Baltimore – Tips for Better Investing
Whichever way you plan to invest, this section will give you some tips and techniques to get you started
Understand why you are investing.
One of the keys to successful investing is identifying your investment goals, and the time frame over which you will invest. What do you want to do with your money?
Your goals and time frame
When investing money, many people have a specific goal in mind. If this is the case for you, you need to decide what time frame is attached to that goal — short term, medium term or long term?
Rather than having a particular investment goal, some people may just want to invest a sum of money, for example, an inheritance. If you are in this situation, you need to decide what you want from that money. Do you want to use the money in the next year or two? (in which case you are a short-term investor).
Or do you want a regular income? Or do you want it to achieve capital growth over the long term?
A short-term investor would be more likely to choose a more conservative investment like cash, to ensure that their capital is available in the next one to three years when they need to access it. A long-term investor would be more willing to invest in growth assets such as shares, as they do not need to access their capital for at least five years, so are usually less concerned about short-term ups and downs. They recognise that the potential returns are higher in growth investments, and if they are held over the long term the risk associated with short-term volatility is reduced.
Don’t forget that superannuation is one of the most tax-effective ways to invest for the long term. If you would like more information on superannuation, contact your financial adviser.
In considering which type of investment is most suitable for your goals, a professional financial adviser can help you with this decision after analysing your investment objectives, particular needs and financial situation.
2. Become an investor instead of a saver.
Many people invest but only some become wealthy. Why? The mistake many people make when investing is that they treat their investment as saving. So what is the difference between saving and investing? Saving is what you do to build up funds for something, like a holiday, and when you have the amount saved, you withdraw your capital from your investment and spend it.
Investing is different. People who want to build wealth invest their money for the long term in growth assets, such as shares and property. Their strategy is to spend the income that the investment produces, but leave the capital invested. They don’t withdraw the capital, so it stays there to grow, which in turn allows more income to be produced.
If you do this it will take you a while longer initially to get to your investment goal, but in the long run you will find that the extra wait has been worth it. As the years go by, you may have an increasing additional income stream from your investments and your standard of living can rise accordingly.
So what’s the secret to becoming wealthier? It’s easy! Start investing, and stay invested.
Other Tips to Remember…
Start early and take advantage of compound interest.
There is always a ‘good’ reason for not investing, but there is actually an even better reason to start investing right away. In fact, starting sooner rather than later is one of the best investment decisions you can make. The reason? So you can take advantage of compand interest. The problem is that compound interest works against those who hesitate. Most of us studied compound interest at school, so we know how it works. But it’s not until you start looking at practical examples that you realise how powerful it can be.
Use market movement to your advantage.
Dollar cost averaging – One way to ride out the market’s ups and downs is a technique called dollar cost averaging, typically used in managed funds. With dollar cost averaging, you don’t have to focus on where share prices or interest rates are headed. You simply invest a set amount of money on a regular basis. Dollar cost averaging is an investment technique that can help turn the odds in your favour. The idea is that you buy less units when the market is up, and more units when it is down — automatically.
Don’t try to time the market.
One of the excuses many use for not investing is that it is not the right time to invest. These people are likely to be under the misconception that they have the magical powers to be able to predict the future. They are under the illusion that the path to riches is a matter of getting on the right horse at the right time.
However, as investors begin to learn the vagaries of markets, they begin to realise the insurmountable difficulty in picking market movements. Trying to pick the magnitude and direction of market movements has cost even the most experienced investor dearly. Don’t chase returns.
Investing in the fund that had the best performance last year may be a big mistake! Most fund managers will offer you a choice of many different types of managed funds, from shares and property to fixed interest and cash, to mixtures of all of them. There are also usually a range of different share funds investing in different parts of the world. Given such a wide choice of investments, and the ability to switch your investments between them for little or no fees, some people make the mistake of chasing returns.
Chasing returns means that you are moving your investments across to the fund that had the best performance last year. Why can this be a mistake?
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Nov
14
Safe High Return Investments Baltimore – The Investment Millionaire’s Secret Revealed!
We all want high return investments, but what is the best way to achieve substantial long-term capital growth?
Let’s look at the best investment, combined with the most powerful force in investing, and how they can create a high return investment that grows rapidly.
The Secret of High Return Investments
Albert Einstein called this: “The most powerful force in the universe” and investment terms he’s right.
Compound interest on an investment with low downside volatility is really the secret of getting high return investments to make huge gains over the long term.
Which is the Best High Return Investment?
When looking at high return investments the best combination is an above average return, linked to low volatility, combined with compound growth.
As an investment, UK land has provided better capital growth over time than most hedge funds, mutual funds, investment trusts, equities, or shares, and with a lower downside risk.
The overall price of farmland has increased by 30% in the last 12 months, and by 130% since the early 1990s, with an average 920% growth in the last 20 years.
The 920% over 20 years is average growth, and many investors have achieved far greater gains by careful plot selection.
Why UK Land is Providing Stunning Returns with Low Risk
UK land provides above average solid growth for the following reasons:
1. Population Growth – The population of the UK in 1981 was 56.2 million. In 2001, the population had increased by about 2.6 million to 58.8 million inhabitants.
2. Immigration – In terms of immigration, there is the granting of entry to the UK, of over 170,000 people per year. This constitutes over 60% of the annual population growth. Therefore, at current rates of growth the UK can expect to see at least an additional 3.4 million inhabitants within the next 20 years.
3. Social Trends – There is a rising divorce rate in the UK. Furthermore, more people are staying single by choice, and getting married later in life.
In the next 17 years, with the rising population and increased lack of affordable housing, the UK will need another 1.5 million homes.
Compounding a Small Sum to a Million!
We can see already that land has had fantastic growth year on year, and looks set to continue. The average gain was 30%, in 2004 alone.
Lets take an example now of compound growth in action:
$50,000 invested with a compound grow of 30% annually would take just 12 years to be worth over $1,250,000!
A steady compound growth soon adds up!
Of course, bear in mind that the above illustration is subject to the fact that investors may use bigger or smaller deposits, and there is no guarantee of 30% annual growth.
To make big gains, the formula for investment success over the long term is:
A High return investment + low downside volatility + the power of compound interest = big capital growth potential
Compound interest makes you money work harder, and as the amount increases, it soon adds up.
For High Return Investments Look no Further than Land!
Land tends to rise steadily in value year on year and with low downside volatility giving steady solid growth
Many hedge funds, unit or investment trusts, can be negative for years on money invested, or even never recover at all!
When considering long-term investments, land with its good growth potential and low downside volatility, makes it the ideal investment to benefit from compound growth
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