Tag: investors

Falling Meteorite FTX Scorches Crypto Landscape

After several months of calm in the crypto industry, characterized by a role reversal in which equities were highly volatile and cryptocurrencies flat and boring, a familiar if tragic drama reminiscent of Icarus is now playing out. This week saw the dramatic failure of FTX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and the ignoble…


Investors Should Abandon Wishful Thinking on China

Commentary Western investors have been very patient, and even persistent, in believing for decades that China will be the new frontier, the investing “holy grail,” even. After decades of investment and engagement with China, however, the country’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not become more democratic. Now that the 20th Party Congress has come…


5 Ways to Professionally Manage Your Financial Assets

Your business is growing—that’s great news! It also means it’s time to triple-check that you’re protecting your assets and managing your finances in a scalable way. Here’s how. As a business grows, leadership needs to ensure they manage financial assets and that equity within the company is well-managed and secure. No matter where your business…


The Savings Game: Taking RMDs in stock

By Elliot Raphaelson From Tribune Content Agency IRA expert Ed Slott (irahelp.com), in a recent article, discussed an option for required minimum distributions (RMDs) that most investors are not aware of. When investors see the value of their equities fall, they don’t like selling shares in order to take required minimum distributions. Slott pointed out…


The Savings Game: Don’t Give up on the Stock Market

By Elliot Raphaelson From Tribune Content Agency Investors in both the stock and the bond markets are understandably nervous. The Federal Reserve has indicated that until inflation is under control, it will continue to increase interest rates. As long as that happens, it is likely that both bond prices and stock prices will remain under…


How to Invest for a Recession

By James K. Glassman From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance If you have a reasonably diversified stock portfolio, it likely lost roughly 20 percent of its value during the first six months of the year. Those losses anticipate a recession—or at least a very rough patch for businesses. There is little shelter in the stock market from…


How to Create an Attractive Presentation for Investors

Every aspiring entrepreneur who wants to launch their business and get funding needs to know how to package and present a company to a potential audience and investors. A compelling presentation shows how well you understand your project and its development. According to Crunchbase, in 2021, startups raised $201 billion in investments during the initial stage of…


Homebuilders and Investors Are Feeling the Intensity of the Struggling Housing Market

Homebuilders are slowing down construction due to the struggling housing market. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the sale of newly built homes has dropped to a five-year low, at around 511,000 for the month of July. The July census data also show that new homes actively under construction are at about 839,000, which would make…


SEC Charges VMware With Misleading Investors by Obscuring Financial Performance

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday it has charged cloud computing company VMware Inc. with misleading investors by obscuring its financial performance. The company was charged with misleading investors about its order backlog management practices, which the agency said enabled it to push revenue into future quarters by delaying product deliveries to…


Investor Mood No Longer ‘Apocalyptically Bearish’: Bank of America Survey

Investors are “no longer apocalyptically bearish,” says Bank of America’s (BofA) Chief Investment Strategist, Michael Hartnett, in the monthly survey of global fund managers on Aug. 17. BofA polled 284 investors overseeing $836 billion in assets between Aug. 5–11, who said they had cut back a net underweight position in equities to minus 26 percent, a…