Download or read book Hard Asset written by Pamela Clare and published by Cobra Elite. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perilous mission... Shanti Lahiri's tragic family history inspired her to fight for justice. Now a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court, she doesn't have time for dating or relationships. When an investigation takes her to the Rohingya refugee camps in her father's homeland of Bangladesh, the last thing she wants is an armed security team following her everywhere and frightening her already traumatized witnesses. But others who've tried to investigate these crimes have gone missing, and Shanti doesn't want to be the next one to disappear. Despite her misgivings, she has no choice but to accept their protection. And, no, the fact that the team's leader is lethally sexy has nothing to do with her decision. An undeniable attraction... Connor O'Neal left the Unit-Delta Force-after a decade of war, scarred both inside and out. Now an operative with Cobra International Security, he's been tasked with protecting Shanti in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. He can handle anything the bad guys throw at him, but nothing prepares him for the instant attraction he feels to Shanti. From the first moment he sees her, he wants her. Too bad, because clients are strictly off-limits, and he's a man who follows the rules-most of the time. Besides, he can't afford any distractions when Shanti's life is on the line. A merciless enemy... But something about Shanti breaks through Connor's defenses, forcing him to confront his demons. As their mutual desire transforms into reckless passion, Shanti discovers evidence crucial to putting a mastermind of genocide behind bars. Connor knows her life is in immediate danger, but his plan to get her out of the country comes crashing down when a traitor strikes, leaving the two of them stranded in the jungles of Myanmar. Now on the run from a ruthless killer and his army, Connor and Shanti are fighting for survival-and a chance at the love of a lifetime.

Download or read book Work Your Assets Off written by Allison Tabor and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written for business owners, executives, and other individuals who are simply ready to stop working harder and harder. Join me on a journey to "embrace your suck," leverage your natural talents, and start living your best life with ease. This book is for you--if you are ready to work your ASSets off and stop working so hard in business and in life

Download or read book How to Protect Your Assets and Preserve Your Hard Earned Capital written by Antonio TJ Hines and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for the everyday individual as an eye opener what is currently going on in the financial markets. The author reveals and discloses what your broker, banker and or mutual fund manager is not telling you. Secrets! We’ve all been duped into thinking the traditional model of investing is the way to go. It’s called psychological influence. There is a serious issue right now in our society. 72% of Americans born between the years of 1946-1964, are going back into the work force. You see it everyday. Grandma’s and Grandpa’s working at the cash registers in your local grocery store. How could this be? This is the result of not having the right financial education to assist in proper planning for protecting, growing and preserving their nest eggs. 53% of American households will not have enough for retirement. It’s true. That’s over half of the American population. The Securites & Exchange Commission conducted a study saying half of investors didn’t understand or realize the different levels of care that were provided between brokers, mutual fund managers, bankers and fidiciuaries. That’s a huge problem. The objective of this book is to get the reader to understand what they may not know now, as well as the many options available for you to ride your life right off into the sunset by lowering your risk and increasing your yields in half the time it would in a traditional model. The author reveals the ultimate solution to sustaining your same lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle for years to come. The author understands the value of the family name and the legacy most people want to leave behind. Let the truth be told, most investors are losing more than their making, simply by not being aware. After reading this short impactful book, the reader will be equipped with knowledge on how to protect, grow and preserve their assets for years to come, with a unique investing model that has been around for decades upon decades.

Download or read book High Yield Investments Hard Assets and Asset Protection Strategies written by Bill Bodri and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy income from a number of high yield investments such as P2P lending, dim sum bonds, Yield Cos, foreign bank accounts, and high yield dividend stocks like select REITs and MLPs. Discover the hard assets that the rich are now buying: gold and silver, farmland, oil wells, and crowdfunded real estate. Protect yourself from fiat paper destruction.

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Download or read book 6 Hour Guide to Protecting Your Assets written by Martin M. Shenkman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO PROTECT WHAT'S YOURS By the time you're named as a defendant in a lawsuit or divorce proceeding, it may be too late to protect your assets. The time to shield the hard-won fruits of your labor is now! Fortunately, protecting your assets can be much easier and far less expensive than you think. In this complete, practical, and easy-to-follow guide, leading tax and estate planning attorney and bestselling author Martin Shenkman presents the steps you can and should take to protect your home, your savings, and other assets from creditors, litigants, and divorce. Shenkman explains the essential concepts of protecting what you own from malpractice claims, lawsuits, and divorce. This book offers step-by-step guidance in determining which asset-protection strategies and techniques are right for you. You'll learn numerous legal and effective methods you can use to: * Protect your personal assets from business and professional claims * Protect your assets and your heirs' assets from divorce * Minimize your risk of lawsuits and other claims against your assets * Create limited partnerships and LLCs to protect your assets * Make your home-based business judgment-proof * Use domestic trusts to protect against lawsuits * Secure real estate and stock holdings against lawsuits

Download or read book Unconventional Success written by David F. Swensen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Pioneering Portfolio Management shows individuals how to avoid the for-profit mutual fund industry and get better returns on their money. In Unconventional Success, investment legend and bestselling author David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent “churning” of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including pay-to-play product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges. Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of selling losers and buying winners (and doing both too often) damages portfolio returns and increases tax liabilities, delivering a one-two punch to investor aspirations. In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors. Swensen’s solution: A contrarian investment alternative that promotes well-diversified, equity-oriented, market-mimicking portfolios that reward investors who exhibit the courage to stay the course. Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual fund managers, investors create the preconditions for investment success. Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the personal investor’s financial future. “Reveals why the mutual fund industry as a whole does a disservice to the individual investor.” —Booklist “What he has to say is worth listening to.” —The New York Times

Download or read book Asset Allocation For Dummies written by Dorianne Perrucci and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-understand how-to guide to the single most important thing you can do in investing — choosing and mixing your assets successfully. You don’t need to be an expert analyst, a star stock-picker, or a rocket scientist to have better investment results than most other investors. You just need to allocate your assets in the right way, and have the conviction to stick with that allocation. The big secret behind asset allocation — the secret that most sophisticated investors know and use to their benefit — is that it’s really not all that hard to do. Asset Allocation For Dummies serves as a comprehensive guide to maximizing returns and minimizing risk — while managing taxes, fees and other costs — in putting together a portfolio to reflect your unique financial goals. Jerry A. Miccolis (Basking Ridge, NJ), CFA®, CFP®, FCAS, MAAA is a widely quoted expert commentator who has been interviewed in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and appeared on CBS Radio and ABC-TV. He is a senior financial advisor and co-owner of Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors (www.brintoneaton.com), a fee-only investment management, tax advisory and financial planning firm in Madison, N.J. Dorianne R. Perrucci (Scotch Plains, NJ) is a freelance writer who has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, and TheStreet.com, and has collaborated on several financial books, including I.O.U.S.A, One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt (Wiley, 2008).

Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.

Download or read book Selected Hard Assets as a Hedge Against Inflation written by Paul Isserow and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hard Assets written by Luc Renneboog and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the investment performance of diamonds and other gems (sapphires, rubies, and emeralds) over the period 1999-2010, using a novel data set of auction transactions. Between 1999 and 2010, the annualized real USD returns for white and colored diamonds equaled 6.4% and 2.9%, respectively. Since 2003, the returns were 10.0%, 5.5%, and 6.8% for white diamonds, colored diamonds, and other gems, respectively. Both white and colored diamonds outperformed the stock market over our time frame. Nevertheless, gem returns are positively correlated with stock market returns, suggesting the existence of stock market wealth effects.

Download or read book Unique and Hard To Value Assets written by Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet describes unique assets and hard-to-value assets, risks associated with investing or holding these assets, and the fiduciary role in managing these assets. This booklet provides guidance for examining these types of discretionary assets held in fiduciary accounts in asset management areas of national banks and federal savings associations (collectively, banks). In many instances, the guidance is equally applicable to assets held in custody accounts and to non-managed trust accounts. The guidance provides bank examiners with expanded examination procedures, which supplement the core assessment standards in the “Large Bank Supervision” and “Community Bank Supervision” booklets of the Comptroller's Handbook. The examination procedures are optional but may be used when a bank has a significant number of unique assets to manage or has hard-to-value assets for reporting purposes.

Download or read book Asset Recovery Handbook written by Jean-Pierre Brun and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is designed as a 'how-to' manual that guides practitioners as they grapple with the strategic, organizational, investigative, and legal challenges of recovering assets that have been stolen by corrupt leaders and hidden abroad.

Download or read book Asset Protection for Business Owners and High Income Earners written by Alan Northcott and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! You have worked hard for many years and own a booming business; or perhaps you are a successful doctor, attorney, CPA, or another high-income earner. Making that money was difficuUnfortunately, you are on the radar with pending lawsuits from other businesses, employees, business partners, past marriages, relatives, the government, or anyone else who thinks they can reach your assets. With a little knowledge and access to the Internet, anyone can discover a lot of information about you, including: your home, cars, boats, real estate, bank, and investment accounts - essentially everything you own. Lawsuits are rampant in this country. Statistics show there is one attorney in this country for every 300 residents; there are an estimated 150,000 people in law school as we speak. On average, 80,000 lawsuits are filed each day. When you are sued, it is too late to protect your assets. You are exposed. Fortunately, you can act now to protect yourself and family later. In this easy-to-read and comprehensive book, you will learn the simple steps you need to do to protect yourself before there is a problem. The book provides a number of worksheets to help you decide the best plan of action for your financial position and personal needs. You will learn the ins and outs of protecting yourself and your family through legal methods, such as corporations, family limited partnerships and trusts, family saving trusts, offshore trusts corporations, and limited liability companies (LLCs). You will learn how to reposition your assets into legal entities that you control, creating bullet-proof security. You will learn about irrevocable living trusts, creating and maintaining LLCs, equity-stripping techniques, privacy plans, durable power of attorney, bankruptcy legislation, and estate planning for high-income individuals, as well as living, testamentary, and pour-over wills. The trick is to own nothing directly but control everything legally. Once your assets are repositioned and protected, attorneys mostly working on contingency fees are not going to sue you because they have nothing to gain, and since 98 percent of all lawsuits are only about the money, how can they legally take it from you? With the sound guidance in this book, you will be able to protect your hard earned assets. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Download or read book Work Your Assets Off written by Allison Tabor and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written for business owners, executives, and other individuals who are simply ready to stop working harder and harder. Join me on a journey to "embrace your suck," leverage your natural talents, and start living your best life with ease. This book is for you-if you are ready to work your ASSets off and stop working so hard in business and in life

Download or read book A Practitioner s Guide to Asset Allocation written by William Kinlaw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the formalization of asset allocation in 1952 with the publication of Portfolio Selection by Harry Markowitz, there have been great strides made to enhance the application of this groundbreaking theory. However, progress has been uneven. It has been punctuated with instances of misleading research, which has contributed to the stubborn persistence of certain fallacies about asset allocation. A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation fills a void in the literature by offering a hands-on resource that describes the many important innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and dispels common fallacies about asset allocation. The authors cover the fundamentals of asset allocation, including a discussion of the attributes that qualify a group of securities as an asset class and a detailed description of the conventional application of mean-variance analysis to asset allocation.. The authors review a number of common fallacies about asset allocation and dispel these misconceptions with logic or hard evidence. The fallacies debunked include such notions as: asset allocation determines more than 90% of investment performance; time diversifies risk; optimization is hypersensitive to estimation error; factors provide greater diversification than assets and are more effective at reducing noise; and that equally weighted portfolios perform more reliably out of sample than optimized portfolios. A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation also explores the innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and presents an alternative optimization procedure to address the idea that some investors have complex preferences and returns may not be elliptically distributed. Among the challenges highlighted, the authors explain how to overcome inefficiencies that result from constraints by expanding the optimization objective function to incorporate absolute and relative goals simultaneously. The text also explores the challenge of currency risk, describes how to use shadow assets and liabilities to unify liquidity with expected return and risk, and shows how to evaluate alternative asset mixes by assessing exposure to loss throughout the investment horizon based on regime-dependent risk. This practical text contains an illustrative example of asset allocation which is used to demonstrate the impact of the innovations described throughout the book. In addition, the book includes supplemental material that summarizes the key takeaways and includes information on relevant statistical and theoretical concepts, as well as a comprehensive glossary of terms.

Download or read book Technical Analysis written by Charles D. Kirkpatrick II and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already the field's most comprehensive, reliable, and objective guidebook, Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, Second Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances. Selected by the Market Technicians Association as the official companion to its prestigious Chartered Market Technician (CMT) program, this book systematically explains the theory of technical analysis, presenting academic evidence both for and against it. Using hundreds of fully updated illustrations, the authors explain the analysis of both markets and individual issues, and present complete investment systems and portfolio management plans. They present authoritative, up-to-date coverage of tested sentiment, momentum indicators, seasonal affects, flow of funds, testing systems, risk mitigation strategies, and many other topics. This edition thoroughly covers the latest advances in pattern recognition, market analysis, and systems management. The authors introduce new confidence tests; cover increasingly popular methods such as Kagi, Renko, Kase, Ichimoku, Clouds, and DeMark indicators; present innovations in exit stops, portfolio selection, and testing; and discuss the implications of behavioral bias for technical analysis. They also reassess old formulas and methods, such as intermarket relationships, identifying pitfalls that emerged during the recent market decline. For traders, researchers, and serious investors alike, this is the definitive book on technical analysis.