Fixed-income investments offer investors a steady stream of income over the life of the bond or debt instrument. They offer the issuer much-needed access to capital or money. Steady income lets investors plan their spending, a reason these arepopular products in retirement portfolios. Relatively L...
Take the equity at the onset of the accounting period, add or subtract any equity infusions (such as adding cash from shares issued or subtracting cash used for treasury purchases), add net income, subtract all cash dividends paid out and any net losses, and what you have left is the shar...
To shield the country from the adverse effects of 8 How to invest in the Philippines 2015 imported oil, the government came up with the PEP aimed at helping the country move away from utilizing imported oil and towards greater use of indigenous energy resources, renewable energy, and other ...
Of course, if you’re not planning on spending that much on your content this year, these numbers are only marginally useful. You ultimately need to know your business’s limits, what your competition is up to, and your industry norms as you go to make an outsourcing decision. Step 2: ...
It seems like Pre-paying 2017 property taxes makes sense if you itemize, are not in AMT, and are able to pre-pay (some counties don’t allow it). I don’t see much of an advantage to becoming a c-corp as still double taxed (20% at corp level then dividends taxed on individual ...
BUT… if I stop writing, perhaps I’m squandering the biggest opportunity I have—created through much luck—to have a lasting impact on the greatest number of people. This feeling of urgency has been multiplied 100-fold in the last two months, as several close friends have died in acciden...
SWIFT messages are one-way, much like emails, which means that transactions can’t be settled until each party has screened the transaction. By integrating directly with a bank’s existing databases and ledgers, Ripple provides banks with a faster, two-way communication protocol that permits real...
To shield the country from the adverse effects of 8 How to invest in the Philippines 2015 imported oil, the government came up with the PEP aimed at helping the country move away from utilizing imported oil and towards greater use of indigenous energy resources, renewable energy, and other ...