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November 9, 2019 News No Comments

Barings Quitting Business of Managing Real Estate Stock Funds

Barings Quitting Business of Managing Real Estate Stock Funds Barings is exiting the business of managing mutual funds that invest in real estate stocks as it retools its strategy in the sector. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based firm runs the $ 1 billion … Continue reading at msn.com LA firm acquires SA-based commercial real estate company […]

April 16, 2019 News No Comments

Today’s business news: What you need to know

Today’s business news: What you need to know Latest – A founding director of Nelson-based company, New Zealand King Salmon, has died following a sudden illness. Thomas Song came to New Zealand from Malaysia in 1990 and became involved in the … Continue reading at msn.com TPN Launches VELOCITY COMMERCE GROUP–A New Consultancy That Addresses […]

March 13, 2019 News No Comments

University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business slips from top spot in U.S. News & World Report ranking

University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business slips from top spot in U.S. News & World Report ranking The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business fell from the No. 1 spot on this year’s U.S. News & World Report list of the nation’s top full-time MBA programs. The rankings, released Tuesday, l… Continue reading […]

November 19, 2018 News One Comment

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act … Comey’s controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his c… Continue reading at washingtonpost.com California Inc.: Retailers […]

November 16, 2018 News 3 Comments

Google just named a former Oracle exec as the head of its giant cloud business

Google just named a former Oracle exec as the head of its giant cloud business CNBC first reported the news. Kurian was the president of product development … something we should accept as a great compliment as well as a huge responsibility. We’ve built a strong business toget… Continue reading at businessinsider.com Volkswagen CEO to […]

November 24, 2017 Personal One Comment

4 Money-Management Tips To Help You Bootstrap Your Business

4 Money-Management Tips To Help You Bootstrap Your Business Sometimes, people who aspire to be business owners have this idea that they’ll pitch their idea, get millions of dollars in funding and start spending money like pro athletes. But, if they’re anything like the average American, they’ll have an … Continue reading at msn.com Curtis […]

June 18, 2017 News No Comments

Trump’s Business Ties in the Gulf Raise Questions About His Allegiances

Trump’s Business Ties in the Gulf Raise Questions About His Allegiances LONDON — President Trump has done business with royals from Saudi Arabia for at least 20 years, since he sold the Plaza Hotel to a partnership formed by a Saudi prince. Mr. Trump has earned millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates for […]

September 16, 2016 News One Comment

Risky business

The old Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times", has particular relevance to the current epoch of U.S. history. There's a lot going on right now, much of it scary. Major investors around the world are responding to the events of our perilous age by sinking their dollars, deutschmarks and yen into gold, silver and palladium; Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and billionaire speculator George Soros to name but a few. Big financial institutions like the Central Banks of Russia and China are also leaping onto the metals bandwagon driving the price of these precious commodities ever higher.

"When gold peaked-out in the 1970s, interest rates were at an all-time high," Lubaszka says. "Right now we're waiting to feel the effects of the last 9 interest rate increases which generally take 6-9 months to begin impacting the economy. Now's the time to buy gold because when rates go up, downward pressure is exerted on real estate, stocks and bonds and commodities like gold tend to increase. The opposite occurs when rates travel from a high to a low. That's the time to reduce gold assets and increase the paper part of a portfolio."

In some cases, in fact, it's not even the same fund to begin with. Remember, after a management change, the rating stays with the fund, not the portfolio manager. Therefore, a fund's rating might be based almost entirely on the track record of a manager who is no longer with the fund.