Category: Stocks and Bonds
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SelectUSA Investment Summit
Cabinet Secretaries and Governors to Join President Obama and Secretary of Commerce at SelectUSA Investment Summit WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that four Cabinet secretaries will participate in the 2016 SelectUSA Investment Summit, June 20-21, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. In addition to Secretary Pritzker, Secretary of the…
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America’s Retirement Crisis
America’s Retirement Crisis Highlights The Need For Better Financial Advice Ideally, people investing for retirement always should have been able to feel confident that their financial advisors were giving them unbiased advice and recommending what was best for them. That wasn’t necessarily the case, though, which prompted the Department of Labor to issue new fiduciary rules…
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Offshore Investors Bullish on Canada
Foreign investment in Canadian securities strengthened for a third straight month in March, according to figures released Wednesday morning by Statistics Canada. The agency put the figure at $17.2 billion, and added that foreign acquisitions were mainly composed of securities issued by Canadian private corporations. Meanwhile, StatsCan says, Canadian investment in foreign securities amounted to…
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Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor
New Book Reveals Academic Evidence Impacting Investment Revolution and How It Will Better Serve an Investor If you’re free from the fear and complexity of investing, what could you do with all of the time you used to spend checking on and worrying about your investments? Can you move beyond decisions based on anxiety and…
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Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing
Survey: SRI Financial Professionals Managing 100% Fossil Fuel Free Portfolios more than Doubled in Three Years [box]4th Annual SRI Conference Poll on Fossil Fuel Divestment Finds Fossil-Fuel Free Investing Continues to Attract More Retail and Institutional Investor Interest.[/box] NEW YORK CITY AND COLORADO SPRINGS – May 5, 2016 – For the first time ever, more…
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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…
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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…
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Self Directed IRA with Online Trading Platform
A currently popular structure for the Self Directed IRA, is to be connected with an online trading platform: Do you know why income taken from your IRA in Thailand will be taxed? Online trading means with your self directed IRA you trade stocks, options, futures, Forex, bonds and funds on over 50 markets worldwide from…
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Canada Pension Plan to Invest Offshore
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Invests EUR480 Million in the Mandatory Exchangeable Facility of LeasePlan TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – March 30, 2016) – Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, CPPIB Credit Investments Inc., has completed the funding of EUR480 million in the Mandatory Exchangeable Facility of LeasePlan. This investment…