Month: May 2016

  • What Story Are Your Investments Telling?

    “I didn’t really know anything about 401K’s or investing until I got my first job. And then, you know, it took me a year to even start doing the maximum matching funds. I mean, growing up, my Dad maybe messed around on the stock market, but he didn’t really teach me about it. It’s jut…

  • Zombie Companies Don’t Have to Haunt Angel Investors

    Tech Coast Angels Create Lost Causes Fund So Members Can Capture Tax Loss IRVINE, Calif. — May 6, 2016 – Tech Coast Angels has launched an innovative way in which the angel network can assist its members realize tax losses at Zombie companies (companies that have essentially shut down but have not dissolved). The new…

  • Social Security is Still Complicated

    LEAWOOD, Kan., May 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Contrary to popular belief, Social Security is more complicated than ever before. While the changes to Social Security rules ushered in by the Balanced Budget Act of 2015 have eliminated the popular “file and suspend” claiming strategy, there is a false impression that Social Security claiming has become…

  • Why China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut

    Ship tracking data from Bloomberg shows that 83 supertankers carrying around 166 million barrels of oil are headed to China, which has stockpiled an impressive 787,000 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2016—the highest stockpiling rate since 2014. China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut. While the world was speculating about oil prices plunging…

  • Gold bullion and gold shares have had a nice rally

    Gold bullion and gold shares have had a nice rally over the last four months. The entire precious metals market has the general shares market as well. A break in the general shares market is one of the four criteria for calling the low in the bear market. At this point, the general shares market…

  • Offshore investments: Is it all that evil?

    Panama Papers incident has demonised offshore investments Offshore investing has recently been demonised in the media, thanks to the release of the so-called Panama Papers. This case paints a picture of investors stashing their money with some illegal company located in an obscure location where the tax rate is next to nothing. While it’s true…

  • Chinese Tech Giant Kuang-Chi to Launch $300-Million Global Fund and Incubator in Israel

    May 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Kuang-Chi, a Shenzhen-based technology conglomerate, is launching an international innovation fund based in Israel to invest offshore in companies worldwide. The “Kuang-Chi GCI Fund & Incubator” will be the first Chinese fund of its kind, combining investment in early to mid-stage Israeli and global companies with incubation by Kuang-Chi. The…