tycho 
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love playing football (soccer), start-ups, Internet & finance
December 27, 2008
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I wrote a small contribution to the SMARTINVESTOR magazine on structured products. A hot topic these days as the Lehman Brothers Minibonds saga left many burned. Since these products a …
Financial investment products such as bonds and stocks are pretty easy to understand, however making the decision of investing in a specific bond or stock is based on your assessment of th …
As a kid, whenever I was not happy with something done by somebody else, my mother used to say: the best way to get what you want, is to do it yourself.Maybe it starts to trickle down now …
The two friends I had a bet with regarding the oil price (I bet with them that the oil price would be below 80 USD at the end of 2008), have a surprised look when I tell the the oil price is now below 40 USD per barrel. They simply cannot understand what happened, so they ask me what my view is on the oil price for 2009...Obviously the economy is in a bad shape, and demand …
AIG getting a third bailout in 5 months, Citigroup continues to bury itself, SFCG going under, ... The next wave of the Tsunami just hit. We are getting used to it, however, our portfolio is not getting any better. The stock market is back to the '97 levels, more than 10 years back Who is talking about the Japanese lost decade? Maybe we should rephrase it to 'The …
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There are many cases where men complain about the performance of Their penis. They have tried Various Ways to Overcome the problems They experience with Various methods but the results Rem …
Post your comments, questions and more on Facebook, straight from your iPad Wealth manager iPad app. You can also access the Resource section with a wealth of articles on how to use the app in many different scenarios to discover how to maximize your personal wealth. All of this is applicable to consumers as well as to finance professionals, i.e. financial advisors, brokers, …
The Chinese economy has been a strange animal altogether for the past decade. As Alan Greenspan pointed out, cheap manufacturing in the early 2000's has put a deflationary pressure on the …
You might have been wondering what we have been doing during the festive season, now you know: we have been working on bringing our Wealth Manager to the iPad.
The famous sayings 'Money attracts Money' and 'the rich get richer' will be more true than ever for the next few years. The Fed decided to pump money in the system by buying $600 billion of bonds, hence flolding the system with cash. Will you see that cash? Of course not. The Fed wants to make lending more accessible, hence it buys bonds to decrease the interest rates. So …
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