Retirement Blues: Current Financial Crisis Forces Billions to be Pulled From Pension Plans For everyone who has a pension plan, last year was one of the worst financial years. The crisis sucked more that $ 5 trillion from retirement plans that...
Read moreAffordable Web Design and Hosting When You Rent a Website
Buying a domain, creating a great website, and maintaining quality website management for your business can cost a small fortune. There is a popular alternative: Website rental. Rather than buying a website for your business and possibly winding...
Read moreEconomic Issues That Should Influence Ethical Multi-National Enterprises (MNE)
Multi-National Enterprises (MNE's) are huge organizations which boundaries of influenza and philosophy exceed those of the home country they originate. They are a very real and important part of the business world in which we live today...
Read moreWhy a Great Storefront Is Vital to Your Company’s Bottom Line
Great commercial real estate can be hard to find, but rest assured it is well worth the wait. Retail real estate that is well set up, in a favorable location, and affordable can drastically increase your store’s bottom line. The more...
Read moreAlternatives to Direct Property Investment
Residential property investment UK residential property has been the best performing asset class in the last 50 years according to the Barclays Capital Equity Guilt Study & ODPM housing statistics. These figures showed that in real terms...
Read moreWhat Is Happenning in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
On February 28, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker visited Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of his tour of the Western Balkans, countries-candidates for membership in the European Union. During his stay in Sarajevo, he said...
Read moreSmall Business Strategic Marketing – The 5 Key Macro Economic Issues for Your Business
Here are FIVE of the more pertinent Economic Issues you might want to think about – illustrated by references to the UK (October 2010) and some PRACTICAL TIPS which you may find helpful. 1. The Outlook : At a global level, there's...
Read moreDivorce – Done With Dignity and Respect
I’d like to think that with nearly 5 million divorces in the UK since the 1980s (about 150,000 per year) we’d be starting to hear stories of what worked and what didn’t when a couple went through their separation. I’d like...
Read moreMaking Money Work
As I begin the journey of finishing my working career I look back at messages I have received throughout my lifetime about money and the idea of saving money. Of course, as a young man I never gave much thought to saving. After all I was young...
Read moreSafe Keeping Receipt (SKR) – Collateral For Alternative Financing
Safe Keeping Receipt’s, or SKR’s, are bank instruments that are on the rise as collateral for alternative financing. A SKR is a financial instrument that is issued by a safe keeping facility, bank or storage house. In storage, assets...
Read moreReturn-On-Asset Ratio, Effects on the Loan Portfolio and the Investment Portfolio, and the FDIC
Low Return-on-Asset Ratio It is always important for management to monitor all of the company’s finance, including income as well as expenses on a regular and frequent basis to make decisions on where to invest the company’s funds. A...
Read moreIs a Current Account Deficit Harmful?
Recently the US the current account has reached an unprecedented level, reaching nearly 6% of GDP. Despite the record levels of deficit many in the US administration have argued that there is nothing to worry about, confident the US will continue...
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