REIT stands for real estate investment trust and it is definitely one of the essential investment vehicles for the masses and high net worth individuals as well. Key reasons being that it allows small flies to participate in the ownership of many and diverse portfolios of physical properties with a relatively small amount of money and of course, REIT being an easy to understand business. In fact, they are the only cost-effective way for a low net worth individual to gain exposure to real estate investment without directly owning physical properties.
While REIT is not a totally risk…
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Index investing is investing in all of the stocks under an index; it is even more diversified than any actively managed mutual funds. It includes buying into either index mutual funds and/or exchange traded funds that proclaim to invest in a certain index, i.e. hold all the shares that are under the index and rarely trades actively, unless there are changes in companies under the index.
The following aspects of each index are highly recommended to know. In fact, any savvy investor that got invests or going to invest using the index investing approach is well aware of the following…
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I have a friend or a few who believes in one of the Abraham religions (the one with two lines at right angles to each other), he once mentioned that English is the global language and at the same time most widely used is because someone wants as many people as possible to read the book of the religion. Superimpose this with the percentage terminology in mathematics and the various factors believed to account for success in one’s career, relationships and businesses; you are going to get an interesting picture.
While I’m not into any of the three Abraham religions,…
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