SMART SCRATCH FINANCE

[...] to fulfill three primary goals: Provide a knowledge resource for understanding basic personal finance. Provide unique content concerning changes to the world of investing. Provide research [...]

[...] to examine what is really worth your hard-earned money. Like any meaningful new method to personal finance it will take some time to get accustomed to and there are sure to be moments where some over- [...]

[...] to examine what is really worth your hard-earned money. Like any meaningful new method to personal finance it will take some time to get accustomed to and there are sure to be moments where some over- [...]

[...] We all share the essential goal of growth. However, what varies are things like time horizon, risk tolerance, expected return and short-term needs. RISK TOLERANCE This is the less numerically driven [...]

[...] increases by 50 percent the investor will lose one hundred percent. This is well beyond the risk tolerance of nearly any investor. Be wary of ETNs containing foreign currency indexes which can be [...]

[...] that he believed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to be one of the few real innovations in recent history within the financial instrument market. “Much of what I have to say may seem obvious, [...]

[...] overseas.” The state has dramatically increased subsidies for citizen’s health care in recent history. By 2020 China will have 170 million people over 60. Since 2000 medical costs in China have [...]

[...] see the strategy of investing in only these ten stocks as one of the most successful in recent history. The principal behind this practice is rooted in the concept of “value investing.” [...]

[...] orders. Accelerated growth of the S&P 500 futures market. Program trading. Today the New York Stock Exchange has enacted trading halts that are triggered by heavy drops in the market. There is [...]

[...] convertible. N-Shares & ADR’s: Those Chinese companies which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. L-Shares: Chinese companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. J- [...]

[...] companies with higher P/E ratios. “From the period 1951 through 1994, the 50 highest dividend yielding stocks had a 1.7 percent higher annual return among stocks with a capitalization of at least $1 [...]

[...] of the Dow” strategy of investing where they invest in only the top ten highest dividend yielding stocks included in the thirty stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial average. To [...]