Online Guide to Investments and Insurance

Assuming the results are favorable, the report you receive at the conclusion of the project can be an important and compelling part of the eventual product presentation that you will prepare for either attracting apotential licensee or obtaining funding for your start up business.
You are undoubtedly saying to yourself, “This all sounds great, but what [...]

While there is a charge for a subscription to Inventors’ Digest Magazine, their website is completely free. You can find articles relevant to issues faced by the independent inventor, classified ads for services needed by independent inventors as well as a complete listing of tradeshows for all sectors of the market. For very reasonable fees, [...]

Investors experienced a classic example of this roller coaster during the 1999–2001 period. Growth and tech funds got hot and then abandoned. Value funds and energy funds were abandoned and then got hot. Fund managers were not hurt, though. Fund managers’ pay increased by 35 percent during the period. In the mid-1990s, financial sector funds [...]

It’s easy to see why you’d want to hire a professional to help you get out of debt. Just sorting out the paperwork can feel like you need an advanced degree. But unfortunately, most of what a financial planner or a debt counselor is going to tell you is either common sense or something you’ll [...]

A few years ago, one of my friends talked me into a 5k “mud run” at the Marine base near us. This was a day that the base let nonmilitary folks come and run the bootcamp obstacle course for prizes.
My friend, who plays competitive soccer, left me in the dust after the first mile. After [...]

A forecast is not a plan. A forecast has no strategic component. Those real-life plans that are forecasts in disguise are immune to our thesis that total value equals economic value plus strategic value. They are trivial but not uncommon examples of my general thesis and occur when operating the existing business is the sum [...]

Modeling risk can be associated with the data quality as well as simple bugs in the calculation engine. The sector came of age at a time when the reporting requirements were minimal. Some servicers have voluntarily increased the volume of reported data. Best practices for disclosure in the sector include web-posted reports, detailed lease rollover [...]