What a person invests in depends on his own criteria for investments. If he has come by his savings the hard way and in a lifetime of work has been able to accumulate a savings fund of $5,000, he may think it best to put it into the savings bank and draw […]
Perhaps the necessity for making a thorough check before investing any money and the immense difficulty of making this thorough check can best be illustrated by three situations. Originally I had intended to entitle this chapter “Crooks I have Known/’ but I thought such a title a little harsh and I retitled […]
If we go beyond the point of death in our consideration of securing a return on investment, and we will shortly see that we must do this unless we care not at all what becomes of our money once we are dead, there is no invest ment as good as insurance. This […]
The trouble with the stock market is the fact that some stocks go down quality stocks, too and it is a devastating experience to pick out so-called “blue chips” such as U.S. Steel, General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey only to find after you have held them for a time […]
More books and articles have been written on the stock market than on perhaps any other business subject in the world. Most of these have as their purpose instructing the reader on exactly how he can invest to make a sizeable amount of money, and if he really applies himself, how he […]
Short Term Notes and Deposits One of the least known investments as far as the general public is concerned is the deposit in a finance company or a short-term note of a finance company. In light of the lack of general knowledge of finance company notes and deposits it is surprising […]
Bank time deposits (Certificates of deposits) are some of the highest yielding government guaranteed investments available today. In gen eral there are three types of bank deposits: (1) checking accounts, (2) savings accounts and (3) time deposits. All of these accounts have equal standing as obligations of the bank, and almost all […]
Buildings and Loan associations isured by the government pay up to 4.6% return, sometimes more if the savings are left in the association for a period of time. This rate is about .6 of one per cent higher than that of the highest rate savings banks in the country, and the building […]
Jl he united states through its corporations and individuals has invested over $30,000,000,000 throughout the world. The total figure in 1959 was $29,735,000,000 and the distribution of these corporate and private invest ments was as follows: AMERICAN INVESTMENTS ABROAD, 1959 (BY AREA) Canada $10,171,000,000 Latin America 8,218,000,000 […]
A highly intriguing table was used for advertising purposes by a real estate syndication firm a short time ago. This is the table: ANNUAL RETURN ON $10,000 INVESTED IN VARIOUS WAYS * Married and filing joint tax return f Disregarding 4% dividend credit or $50 exclusion […]
