by Ashley Lipman | Updated: Mar 20, 2020 | Definitions
Creating a successful business is no easy task. Some business owners work for years and never realize their dream of creating a successful venture. If your existing business is doing great but you have lost your passion for the industry you operate in, selling your...
by Mark Turner | Mar 10, 2020 | Precious Metals
We have had the pleasure of interviewing Trevor Gerszt, CEO of GoldCo, also known as GoldCo Precious Metals or GoldCo Direct. GoldCo has been a pioneer in Gold IRA investments for years and also offers silver, platinum, and palladium IRA investments. Recently, the...
by Liam Hunt | Mar 4, 2020 | Gold IRA Reviews, Portfolio Management, Real Assets
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve announced emergency interest rate cuts amid a worsening coronavirus situation. Shuttered Chinese factories, negative bond yields, and record-setting losses across all major US indexes tell a story of an economy in decline. In response,...
by Sarah Bauder | Mar 2, 2020 | Definitions
The Guinness World Record holder for the pub with the longest name in Britain is the long-winded “The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn”. The sixteen-syllable business name is certainly not something you could say thrice quickly after several...
by Liam Hunt | Updated: Feb 22, 2020 | Precious Metals
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are rising in popularity, despite legislative efforts to cool the market. According to Bank of America, the ETF market will hit $50 trillion in assets by 2030. That’s a staggering growth trajectory, considering the market only crossed the...
by Liam Hunt | Jan 19, 2020 | Definitions, Hedge Funds, Portfolio Management, Precious Metals
Arbitrage exploits inefficiencies in the market that otherwise wouldn’t exist under conditions of perfect interest rate parity. Without price inefficiency (i.e., market prices on one exchange not having caught up to the real market price reflected on another), there’s...
by Liam Hunt | Updated: Jan 14, 2020 | Portfolio Management
We’re often asked, “what are funds extracted from funds?” However, a better way of phrasing this question is to ask, “what is investment income?” Investment income is simply another way of describing funds (cash) that have been extracted from investment funds or...
by Liam Hunt | Updated: Jan 13, 2020 | Precious Metals
No longer are the world’s largest pension funds investing exclusively in the traditional stock and bond market. Fueled by the recent boom in alternative asset investing, pension funds are now rebalancing their portfolios and endowments to reflect a 30 to 50 percent...
by Liam Hunt | Jan 12, 2020 | Commodities, Definitions, Real Assets
To understand what an alternative investment fund is, one must first understand what constitutes a conventional investment fund. An investment fund is a supply of capital pooled by several investors to purchase a basket of securities, of which each investor retains...
by Liam Hunt | Jan 12, 2020 | Angel Investing, VC and P2P, Hedge Funds, Private Equity
Although they often overlap, private equity and venture capital (VC) are not the same things. Certainly, private equity and VC are both types of financial investing interested in turning a profit by buying at a low price and selling once the asset appreciates....
