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Treasuries can be considered as the safest investments in the world and they earned a good reputation from that.
Treasuries are backed by “the full faith and credit” of the U.S. government. The risk of default on these fixed-income securities is NIL. Not even the safest corporate bond in the world can make that claim. If you’re primary goal is to not lose money, treasuries are for you. When you buy a Treasury Bill, Bond or Note you’ll get your interest payments and you’ll get your principal back.
They are not a risk-free. There are, in fact, two very clear risks to holding Treasuries.
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In most financial textbooks, they advise diversifying your funds into many different investment vehicles like bonds, stocks, mutual funds, money markets instruments as well as spreading your money across numerous different sectors and different countries to diversify your risks. To an average investor who has low financial competence and needs the wide diversification to lower risk, this makes sense. However, while this kind of broad diversification guarantees low risk, it also guarantees low returns of 5%-8%.
Don’t follow those strategies. Warren Buffett advises that ‘broad diversification is used by people to protect themselves against their own ignorance.’ If you know what you are doing (high financial intelligence), you should concentrate your portfolio into equities (stocks & mutual funds) as they achieve the highest return. And you can achieve low risk not by simply spreading your money around, but by your competence of knowing which funds and stocks to pick.
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a.k.a. “Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees“
The plans are designed for small businesses with no more than 100 employees who earned $5,000 or more on the payroll for the previous calendar year. But some advisers and tax professionals think these plans are more suited for much smaller companies.
It’s easy and simple. Including instructions, the account application is about four pages to fill out, and you can do it in 10 minutes.
- Who can open one: Generally an employer with no more than 100 employees.
- Cost and complexity: Low.
- Employer contribution limit: 3 percent of employees’ pay, matching, or 2 percent non elective.
- Employee contribution limit: $11,500 for 2009.
- Annual reporting requirements: None.
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Next year will be the retirement year for Uncle John. He’s been toiling in one Flint GM factory or another for 35-plus years, and he’s about done with it. Work— tinkering with cars, boats, and home remodeling tasks— can still give him a charge, but crawling out of bed every weekday morning at 5 to slap together torque converters wears on him. He’d rather spend time hunting and fishing, and also with his grand-kids.
John is pretty young for retirement. He’s in excellent shape— SAY NO TO Alcohol and Cigarettes and he’s able to carry his 150lb outboard trolling motor down a flight of stairs into his basement every winter’s eve for storage. He’s paid into the Social Security pensions system since he was a teenager, when payroll taxes were 6%. Most of that money went straight to retirees drawing direct benefits at the time. Today, payroll taxes are 12.4%, a partial reflection of a trust fund set up in 1983, so John’s kids and grand-kids, and nephews, wouldn’t have to worry about their Social Security later on. Just like John isn’t one to worry.
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Just a few years ago when Melody Brooke applied for credit in anticipation of co-signing a loan for one of her adult children, she was told she had such good credit that she could buy a jet.
Today, she couldn’t buy a toy truck. The combination of a weak economy, which forced her to close her private counseling practice and caused her husband to lose a lucrative contract, has taken her family from a six-figure income to barely any income at all. To add to the constant barrage of debt collectors calling them, her husband hasn’t been able to obtain a job. “He’s only gotten two interviews and one offer,” says Brooke, who lives in the Dallas area with her husband. “But when they ran our credit, they told him they couldn’t hire him.”
The current financial crisis has brought about many economic anomalies, including throwing a whole new subset of the population on the radar of debt collectors – upper-middle class and affluent consumers like Brooke.
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When it comes to purchasing a new property, you may want to consider obtaining an investment loan. This option should only be considered if you want to purchase a second home for either the purpose of resale or to use as a rental income. There are many advantages to securing an investment loan for this type of property purchase, and in some places it is the only option open to those who want to purchase investment property. 
While on the surface an investment loan and a mortgage seem the same, in reality they are two completely different types of funding.
It is important that when you are considering any new loan that you first research all of the possibilities available. It is also highly recommended that you ensure that your credit and financial situation is at the level that your financial institution will require to get the best rates possible.
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Have you ever stood behind someone in line at the store and watched him shuffle through a stack of what must be at least 10 credit cards? Consumers with this many cards are still in the minority, but experts say that the majority of U.S. citizens have at least one credit card — and usually two or three. 
It’s true that credit cards have become important sources of identification — if you want to rent a car, for example, you really need a major credit card. And used wisely, a credit card can provide convenience and allow you to make purchases with nearly a month to pay for them before finance charges kick in.
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