Approaching your retirement means shifting your investments more towards income-based investments and away from equity-based investments. You've less time to recover from equity losses and need to rely on...
PCI Compliance: What Your Business Needs To Know
Accepting credit and debit cards for a business is a great way to open up revenue streams for a company. However, this doesn't come without risks. From hackers, to malware, to dishonest employees, merchants...
Top 10 Tips to Choose a Reliable Moneylender
In case you feel that you are running short of money in your quest to invest in a huge deal like a home, you might need the services of a seasoned expert. In this context, you may need some short-term loans...
How Do I Tell Employees About Fees?
Don't wait for employees to come to you with questions about the 404(a)(5) regulation fees that will be appearing on their retirement savings plans. It's time to start preparing to distribute fee disclosures...
What To Do When You Want To File A Pension Complaint?
According to the Retirement Benefits Acts, if an employee or a member of a company scheme is discontented with the decision of the custodian, manager, or the trustee of the scheme, that person can submit...
But There Is Not Enough Gold, Is There?
One of the 'Big Lies' about Gold is that there is not enough Gold around; after all, Gold is valuable because it is scarce, so Gold cannot be used as 'money'... right? Well, no, not right at all. In reality,...
Having a Financial Aid Consultant Is the New Best Way to Pay for College.
Having your very own personal financial aid expert continually looking out for your interest is as valuable as having a very good defense attorney. Throughout our society we have become increasingly depended...
What Is A Trend Following Investment Strategy? What It Does And 3 Things It Won't Be
What is a trend following investment strategy? Well, a trend following investment strategy is essentially the systemic practice of investing in the market on the basis of trends. It uses developments in the...
Banking and Financial Bodies Marching Towards Economic Restructuring
Banking and financial bodies are evolving with rapid industrial advancement and business benchmarks. The newer technological facets and banking trends are increasingly empowering its service features and...
Cyprus Bank Bailout Steals Money From Innocent Savers
Here's what they want to do:• Savers with under 100,000 euros deposited must pay 6.75% • Those with more than 100,000 in their accounts must pay 9.9% • Savers will be compensated with the equivalent amount...
Will There Ever Be An Affordable Canadian Housing Market?
Certain pockets of the country boast some of the highest housing prices in the world. For years, Toronto and Vancouver have been the most expensive Canadian cities to live in. For example, the average price...
Why Using Invoice Factoring Is a Smart Business Move
Many businesses struggle with having enough money on hand to meet financial obligations. This is the definition of a "Cash Flow" problem. To address this problem, companies generally take one of two approaches:...
Understanding Zero Percent Financing
Technically, zero percent financing is really in existent. The low rates offered by lenders are in fact incentives they offer in lieu of rebates or money saved from the difference between a car's actual selling...
Features of the Australian Securities Exchange
The ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) acts as an important catalyst in Australia's development. It helps raise capital that flows into listed companies and fuels their growth. In the first half of 2013...
Could a Housing Shortage in the UK Lead to Increased Prices?
The UK's National Housing Federation (NHF) has suggested that the insufficient supply of new houses in the UK will mean home ownership will start to approach the low levels seen the 1980's towards the end...
How To Improve Your Credit Score Today Without Problems
In the future, everyone will have a moment of financial problem. It is a matter of life that we need to prepare for. In these days, you could actually solve your problem with money using credit cards. These...
What's the Deal With The Fiscal Cliff - Is It Just Smoke and Mirrors?
Anyone reading the news in the past several weeks has been bombarded with the "fiscal cliff" - a proposed increase to federal taxes resulting from the expiration of previous Bush era tax cuts; originally...
Comparing the London Property Market With the Rest of the World
There are often articles written about the UK property market: from the perspective of owner-occupiers, British property investors and overseas buyers. And these different angles all tell a different story...
Mobile Payment Processing: What Your Business Needs To Know
In 2007, Steve Jobs set of a revolution that would have far wide implications for people everywhere. That year he introduced the iPhone which was a revolutionary product very different then the Blackberry...
Three Technologies That Will Change Your Life!
I'm old enough to remember the time before personal computers, cell phones and the internet. A time when sending letters overnight by Federal Express was considered a radical idea. The dawn of the 21st...
What You Need To Know About Home Ownership
Many people have the desire to own a home. The first step when buying a home is to find an ideal lender that offers the best low rate mortgage. Hence, it is advisable to compare the various lenders in the...
3 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Agent Before Picking a House
When you are looking to purchase a new home, you will likely have a lot of questions to ask a real estate agent. This is a stressful process and, in addition to finding the right home for you and your family,...
Benefits of ATM Outsourcing
ATMs play a crucial role in the operation and profitability of a financial institution. They serve as a primary interface with the customers. ATMs are still the primary touching point for a financial institution...
Emotional Control in Forex Trading
It is well known that in the world the majority of forex traders fail. It is less known, however, what is the main reason behind such a failure rate which is not directly related to the market itself.Contrary...
Overview of UAE Banking Sector
The UAE banking sector is still in recovery stage, post the 2008-09 real estate crisis in Dubai. However, the financial performance of the banks has stabilised especially over the past couple of years. The...
Questions To Ask A Financial Advisor
If you have just started a career, you might have some questions about how to save for your future. It is never too early to start thinking about retirement. Unfortunately, a lot of smart people have a difficult...
Investor Relations Internet Marketing Solutions for the Company
The internet has become the great equalizer in the marketing world. A long time ago it was only the companies who could afford lengthy and expensive marketing campaigns on television, radio and newspapers...
Ninety-Nine Years of Fiscal (Cliff) Policy
The Senate spent an intense and grueling 3 whole minutes pouring over the American Tax Payer Relief Act of 2012 before voting and passing the bill, 89-8. Our Senators are truly amazing as they must have read...