Economic Update Video – Real Estate, Food Crises, etc
This economic outlook video looks into factors affecting the world & US economy as well as the real estate market. You can find all the economic update videos here. In this economic update, we update you on multiple issues involving real estate such as President Obama’s plan for mortgages, the US records being set in […]
Pricing Bonds for Profit
It’s important that you understand how bonds are priced if you’re considering owning one or more of them. In its purest form, the way a bond works is simple to understand. However, most people never own a bond in this way, so it becomes important that you understand how they are actually priced in the […]
Does Your Investment Offer Immediate Cash Flow?
How do you know if an investment is profitable? The quickest and surest way to know is if it pays you. Preferably often and amply! We’re going to break away from our discussion of bonds to examine why…Cash flow is the truest measure of the success of an investment. Sometimes the best speculations might demand […]
Stock Market & Economic Update
The stock market is in a bull run. Will it last? This economic update is intended to quickly catch you up on the most important factors of the last month which affect the stock market and is part three of a six part series of Economic Update Videos. Some of the factors we discuss here […]
Investing in Dividend Stocks
Investing in dividend stocks is really the ideal of money management. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy and most recently looked at financial companies. Today, we’ll look at investing in dividend stocks. In times past, you could simply buy stocks that paid solid, healthy dividends and know that your portfolio would be […]
Blue Chip Investing
Blue Chip investing is something that everyone should understand. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. Blue chip investing should be a component you carefully consider in addition to the international equities we discussed on Monday.
Ben Goes Into Business
Ben was enjoying being a commercial landlord. His decision to make whole life insurance a foundational element of his financial stewardship turned out to be the most important thing he had ever done. Even though he has been totally disabled and lost every asset not protected by law in the lawsuit, he was still able […]
Ben the Investor
Ben was thrilled with the whole life policy he purchased 8 years ago. He now had just over $200,000 of cash value in it. And his original death benefit of just over $1M was now worth $1,538,078, so it seemed to be doing a good job of keeping up with the inflation that was just […]
What is the Internal Rate of Return of a Whole Life Policy?
“Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.” (Exodus 23:30) Historically, the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of Whole Life insurance has been very strong and yet, pinpointing the IRR is not as simple to answer as you would think and is […]