Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • Portfolio Bonds

    Want to access the world’s top fund managers at discounted rates? Want to get institutional interest rates for your cash? Want to avoid the EU Savings Tax Directive? Want to make it easier to manage your investments and accounts? An Offshore Portfolio Bond could be the solution for you! If you’re an expatriate and have…

  • New Index Tracks World’s Alternative Energy Stocks

    New York, NY (PRWEB) May 17, 2006 — The Ardour Global Index (Ticker: AGIGL) of 74 global alternative energy stocks, and its related sub-indexes covering North America (Ticker: AGINA) and Europe (Ticker: AGIEM) commenced real-time price dissemination today. Dow Jones Indexes serves as calculation agent for the indexes www.ardourglobalindexes.com. The AGI is the world’s only…

  • Find safer returns overseas

    With risks mounting in U.S. markets, foreign investments look more attractive By Jeff Brown Stock market investors are enjoying a good run this year, but there’s still plenty to worry about. What if the economy cools, the Fed keeps pushing interest rates up or corporate earnings disappoint? Isn’t there a way to get stock market…

  • Standard & Poor’s Guide to Money & Investing

    NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ — A new, easy-to-read financial guide, Standard & Poor’s Guide to Money & Investing (Lightbulb Press; November; Paperback: $15.95) was released today. A collaboration between Lightbulb Press, a well-known content provider of financial and investor education, and Standard & Poor’s, the leading provider of equity research and ratings, the guide…

  • Variety of Companies Offering Investment Opportunities in Oilsands

    CALGARY (CP) — With a dizzying list of multi-billion-dollar projects and their associated spin-offs of jobs, royalties, investment opportunities and taxes, Canadians – and not just Albertans – are becoming quite familiar with the word “oilsands.” But among the opportunities arising from the oily mud of northern Alberta is a growing roster of companies that…

  • Armchair Millionaire Community Bulletin: All the Wrong Reasons to Invest in the Stock Market

    Investing in stocks is already uncertain enough–don’t compound it by betting on things over which you have no control. Instead, focus on what is sure and dependable in the stock market. New York, New York (PRWEB) November 1, 2005 — Despite what conventional wisdom tells you, investing is not like horse racing. It’s not simply…

  • Investing: Singing the blues

    By Conrad de Aenlle – Good companies should be good investments, but there are times when the opposite is true. Unfortunately for holders of blues-chip stocks, this has been one of those times. Research by Richard Bernstein, a strategist at Merrill Lynch, shows that companies whose stocks receive an A-plus rating from Standard & Poor’s…

  • Dow Jones Indexes to Launch Dow Jones China Offshore 50 Index

    NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones China Offshore 50 Index. The Dow Jones China Offshore 50 Index represents the largest, super-sector leaders of companies whose primary operations are in mainland China but trade at the Hong Kong Stock…

  • Investing for income will be challenging for Baby Boomers

    by Chet Currier – A hungry multitude of investors is about to open the doors to a cupboard that is almost bare. The throng we speak of is the U.S. Baby-Boom generation born after World War II. Its 75 million members will soon start hitting age 60, reaching the time of life when savers’ and…