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• November 21, 2009
• 1:38

  A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF BOND INVESTING

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  For the past week or so, i have been concentrating mainly on bond and bond fund investing. While i have only skimmed the surface of this somewhat complicated bond market, it is better that you know some of these things because that is how education stars; first the introduction of concepts that are expounded later [...]
• November 19, 2009
• 1:10

  ADVANTAGES OF CONVERTIBLE BONDS TO AN INVESTOR

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  In a post that I did recently about convertible bonds (convertible bonds as the best of both worlds) a reader called Christian Pinnell Commented that I hadn’t really brought out the second part of the heading i.e. how they are the best of both worlds. So today’s post is dedicated to this. To sufficiently cover this [...]
• November 17, 2009
• 1:09

  DUAL PURPOSE FUNDS FOR THE OPTION SEEKING INVESTOR

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  I recently stumbled across this type of mutual funds as I was doing a little independent study and I thought of making a little post on this after a little research. This is what I found out about them. These are in the closed end mutual fund category broadly meaning that they have a fixed number [...]
• November 16, 2009
• 6:21

  THE TRUST FUND EXPLAINED

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  We have all heard of this much media hyped financial arrangement and we have all wished at a certain point in time to be one of those enviable trust fund babies. But what are these trust funds and who exactly do they work? In this post, I will try to explain this in as few [...]
• 6:05

  CONVERTIBLE BONDS- THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS??

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  As the name suggests, this is a corporate issued bond that can be converted into some other investment vehicle in this case, it can be converted into common stocks . This is done at only certain times and at a fixed conversion ratio. But the conversion is not as straightforward as it may seem. Let me [...]
• November 12, 2009
• 2:13

  WHAT IS (OR WERE) BEARER BONDS??

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  These are just like normal bonds (corporate or government-) but the major difference is that they are unregistered i.e. when you invest in any other type of bonds, you go into the records as a registered owner and the paper you hold has proof of your ownership of the said bonds but with the bearer [...]
• November 10, 2009
• 3:34

  PREFERRED STOCKS MAY NOT BE BETTER AFTER ALL

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  Some time back I did a post about preferred stocks where I concentrated on the advantages that they had for conservative investors. A small  run-through is that; 1- In the unfortunate event of liquidation or in profit sharing preferred stock holders are paid before common stock holders. 2- The cumulative nature that preferred stock dividends have in that [...]
• November 09, 2009
• 4:20

  THE GENIUS OF THE ORACLE OF OMAHA

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  I am a personal finance blogger and there is no secret that i love Warren Buffett. I have linked to most articles that i have ever read of him, the most recent being “invest like the richest“ I like the investing style that he crusades that is so different that what i hear from most financial [...]
• 1:44

  WHY THEY CALL THEM JUNK BONDS

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  This is a type of corporate bond that is has a high risk of default and thus offers high yields. A salient feature of bonds is that their risk of default depends on among other things, the credit worthiness of the issuing company. If the company has low credit worthiness, there is a higher risk that [...]
• November 07, 2009
• 2:49

  INVEST LIKE THE RICHEST

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  We all know who Warren Buffett is-also called the Oracle of Omaha. In the financial world he is looked up to and emulated by all the investors who want large numbers of Zeros in their bank accounts. Anyways, a few days ago, i was reading through yahoo and i found an article that was reviewing a [...]
• November 06, 2009
• 6:23

  THE CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH; A BLOGGER’S PERSONAL REVIEW

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  For those who don’t know, Robert Kiyosaki (of Rich Dad Poor Dad) has written and published another book that is called the conspiracy of the rich. It is available for sale at amazon.com and it is on the New York Times best seller list. Before it was published, I had the chance to read it [...]
• November 05, 2009
• 4:29

  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT BONDS

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  Just like corporate bonds are IOUs by the companies issuing the bonds, government bonds are IOUs to the general public to borrow money that will be returned at a predetermined time at face value with interest payment periodically up to maturity. Governments issue these bonds when they have more money needs than can be satisfied by [...]
• November 03, 2009
• 4:21

  SENIOR & SUBORDINATED CORPORATE DEBT EXPLAINED

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  Yesterday’s post was about corporate debt of which there are two types secured & unsecured debt and senior & subordinated debt. We will look at the latter in this post Senior debt is a secured debt in that it is the primary debt that is paid off in the unfortunate event of an issuer’s bankruptcy. Most [...]
• 4:04

  AN OVERVIEW OF SECURED & UNSECURED CORPORATE BONDS

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  Yesterday, I did a post on corporate bonds and Wikipedia stated that there were two types of these bonds; -secured and unsecured bonds -senior and subordinated bonds I will run through secured and unsecured bonds and the next post will deal with senior and subordinated bonds Secured corporate debts are bonds that are backed up by the issuer’s (company [...]
• November 02, 2009
• 1:13

  CORPORATE BONDS & CORPORATE BOND FUNDS EXPLAINED

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  First we will look at corporate bonds and then their corresponding mutual funds. I recently covered the bond funds and mentioned the types of bonds. Basically corporate bonds are debt instruments by which both private and public corporations (referred to as the issuer) use to raise money to expand their businesses by borrowing money from the general [...]
• November 01, 2009
• 4:18

  WHAT REALLY CAUSED THIS RECESSION??

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  To the above question, i have just an inkling but there is an author/writer that has a more detailed and credible argument on this economic catastrophe. A while back, i did a post on type of economic depressions and for some strange reason the post still gets a lot of traffic. Anyways, i was reading through [...]
• October 30, 2009
• 2:04

  THE FUND OF FUNDS- THEIR GOOD AND BAD SIDES

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  These are investment funds that invest in other investment funds e.g. a newer investment fund with a somewhat inexperienced fund manager can invest in very profitable investment funds that have been around a long time and well known by the masses. They are also referred to as multi manager or multi management funds.   According to iloveindia.com, the [...]
• October 29, 2009
• 3:19

  BEFORE YOU INVEST IN BOND MUTUAL FUNDS…

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  The previous post was about municipal bond mutual funds, a member of the larger bond mutual funds and so it is just logical that we tackle the bond mutual funds today. Quite a while back, I did a post on fixed income mutual funds and I said that bond mutual funds are a member of these [...]
• October 27, 2009
• 2:18

  AN OVERVIEW OF THE MUNICIPAL BOND FUND

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  Like all the mutual funds we have covered, the logistics of the funds are in some way explained in the name of the mutual fund and this fund is no different. Basically this mutual fund invests in municipal bonds. A municipal bond is a fixed interest debt security used by a country’s government or local governments [...]
• October 22, 2009
• 2:04

  LIFE CYCLE FUNDS THAT SIMPLIFY RETIREMENT

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  Yesterday, I did a post on asset allocation funds. In the post I gave two examples of these types of fund; the balanced mutual fund which I linked to and the life cycle fund which I didn’t link to. So I decided to make a post on this fund today. The life cycle fund is a [...]
• October 21, 2009
• 4:01

  THE ASSET ALLOCATION FUND FOR AN INDIVUDUAL INVESTOR

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  To get a feel around this fund, we first have to understand what asset allocation is. Asset allocation is simply the distribution of money available for investment over the chosen investment classes in a way that will reduce the risk involved and maximize returns and focusing on vehicles that are expected to perform the best over [...]
• October 20, 2009
• 0:51

  THE CAPITAL APPRECIATION MUTUAL FUND; A RISKY VEHICLE

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  By definition capital appreciation is the increase in value of the initial/principle investment or the price of a single unit of stock over a given period and this is what this fund seeks; capital appreciation in as little time as possible over a given period These mutual fund invests primarily in growth stocks and while they [...]
• October 19, 2009
• 10:00

  THE SPECIALTY MUTUAL FUND UNPLUGGED!!

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  Truth be told, I just stumbled on this type of fund very recently. As their name implies, these funds specialize in the shares of companies in a particular industry, sector or geographic region or a specific type of stocks e.g. some invest in IPOs, others in sectors that undergo cyclic patterns like agriculture, others in emerging [...]
• October 16, 2009
• 12:09

  WHAT MAKES THE HEDGE FUND SO ATTRACTIVE??

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  I have heard of this fund and I have noticed that most of the forbes billionaires that made their fortunes in finance are hedge fund managers. So I did some digging and this is what I came up with. Just like the mutual fund, this hedge fund is an investment company that pools money from investors [...]
• October 15, 2009
• 3:38

  INTERNATIONAL MUTUAL FUNDS; WORTHWHILE INVESTMENTS??

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  These are mutual funds that invest in non- domestic securities around the globe i.e. if this fund is American, it can invest in stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals etc of any other country apart from the US. These funds have grown in popularity in the recent times due to removal of trade barriers, expansion [...]
• October 13, 2009
• 1:34

  STOCK MARKET INDICES; HOW THEY ARE CALCULATED

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  I am currently reading the intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham and I can see why Warren Buffett says that it is one of the best books on investing ever written. I am not even half way through but I noticed that there is a lot of usage of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), S&P500 and [...]
• October 12, 2009
• 9:10

  CLOSED END MUTUAL FUNDS; HOW THEY TICK

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  The last fund post was about open ended mutual funds and this time we are going to touch briefly on the closed end mutual funds. These funds are created by financial institutions like banks, investment companies and the like for a particular investment objective that need a given amount on money. This money is raised in [...]
• October 11, 2009
• 4:20

  DO BILLIONAIRES OWN YOU??

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  Being a Sunday, i thought i might link to something a little different in the line of finances I  have been reading a lot about these group of people as they fascinate me to no end. I mean lets be real here, which one of you wouldn’t want  so much money that you could run entire [...]
• October 09, 2009
• 3:38

  THE OPEN-END MUTUAL FUND; THINGS EVEN I DIDN’T KNOW!!

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  This is one of the broader categorizations of mutual funds and I think that I should have started with it and the closed end mutual fund before posting on the subcategories (like I have) The majority of mutual funds are open ended. Other open ended funds include hedge funds, exchange traded funds, unit trusts, SICAVs, OEICs [...]
• October 07, 2009
• 7:07

  AN OVERVIEW OF THE INDEX FUND

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  Some time back, I got a comment asking if there was a difference between index funds and mutual funds and this post is to clear this issue of the index funds up. Basically an index funds is a type of mutual fund that follows a market index like the NSE 20 Share index, the S&P 500 [...]
• October 06, 2009
• 1:23

  WHY I BLOG ABOUT INVESTMENTS

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  There is a saying that ignorance is bliss. This is true but only for a while. It may be bliss not to know that a catastrophe is coming because one does not have to take precautionary measures and better still one does not have to lose precious sleep worrying about the consequences of the imminent [...]
• October 05, 2009
• 2:46

  THE BALANCED MUTUAL FUND;DETAILS EXPLAINED

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  A balanced mutual fund is one that is invested in a combination of different stocks and bonds also a money market investment so as to provide both capital gains and a steady income. By now i am assuming that you already know how mutual funds work. Like all other highly diversified investments, these balanced funds are [...]
• October 02, 2009
• 3:00

  THE GILT FUND EXPLAINED

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  These gilt funds are mutual funds of British origin but are also in India that invest in medium and long term high quality low risk investments like government securities and some forms of corporate debt. A gilt fund investor wants security for invested money and that is why this funds are invested in high security [...]
• September 28, 2009
• 1:13

  FIXED INCOME MUTUAL FUNDS; THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY!!

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  As the name suggests, these funds are sunk into investments that offer fixed income like certificate of deposits, bonds, preferred shares, mortgages, debentures etc (either one or some) Just like money market funds, these offer a certain level of security at the expense of greater returns. They still offer a certain level of returns and preservation [...]
• September 24, 2009
• 0:53

  MONEY MARKET MUTUAL FUNDS- AN ALTERNATIVE TO SAVINGS??

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  First of all we have to define the money markets so that this type of fund is easily understood. A money market is a “market” for short term financial instruments like treasury bills, certificates of deposit, bankers acceptances, commercial paper , federal funds, municipal notes etc. These money market instruments are explained by eagletraders.com and so  [...]
• September 22, 2009
• 5:48

  EQUITY/STOCK MUTUAL FUNDS; TYPES AND DETAILS

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  As the name suggests, these mutual funds invests strictly in stocks(equities) and so in a sense fluctuate just like the stock they are invested in These are further divided into growth funds and aggressive growth funds, balanced funds ect. Growth funds These have a medium to long term investment period in large well established companies with a [...]
• 3:43

  LIST OF MUTUAL FUNDS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

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  THE MAJOR TYPES OF MUTUAL FUNDS AVAILABLE In the post before the last one, I started out with mutual funds and in the post I defined them and very briefly described how they work. In this post and the next we look at the various types of mutual funds. Mutual funds are categorized according to their investment objectives [...]
• September 20, 2009
• 4:41

  THE ALPHA-WOMAN: MYTH OR FACT??

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  On weekends, i prefer posting something along a little different(and very short) from the serious stuff i write about and today’s post is on the alpha woman These breed of women even though very rare are growing in number. Not long ago it was unheard of for a woman to hold high office, attain high levels [...]
• September 18, 2009
• 5:21

  I BET YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUTUAL FUNDS WORK

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  From this post onwards, i will be concentrating mainly on mutual funds. This is because in the paper investments you should look into there were stocks bonds mutual funds etc. i have since covered mutual funds in detail and made a page for them called stocks. This is by no means exhaustive and i will [...]
• September 16, 2009
• 1:06

  THE SELF MADE MILLIONAIRE; ‘SECRETS’ I HAVE LEARNT

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  This group of people has always been the object of interest for most if not all of the rest of the people who do not have this very envied title around their neck. I mean wouldn’t anybody want to have no money problems and to have the ability to buy whatever they wanted and go [...]
• September 14, 2009
• 1:44

  WHY THE BANKING INDUSTRY SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

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  I think that the banking industry should be totally wiped off the face of the earth, its existence totally annihilated never to be spoken of again by the lips of a clean soul. You want to know why? There are a multitude of reasons but the one that rises to the top is a concept called [...]
• September 12, 2009
• 4:45

  HOW TO KEEP COMPUTER HACKERS AT BAY

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  It has been quite a while ever since i linked to another person’s blog post but it was for a number of reasons. When this blog was much younger i did an post on hacking stories and how to protect yourself and i got a lot of feedback that it really helped(still gets traffic). So in the [...]
• September 10, 2009
• 4:21

  GROWTH STOCK DEMYSTIFIED

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  What is growth stock?? Basically this is a company’s stock that is expected to grow at an above average rate than other stock in the markets. Investopedia also calls these types of stock glamor stock So in a sense, they are all the other types of stock that we have been discussing in the past weeks, but the [...]
• September 07, 2009
• 2:55

  HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF LOAN STOCK??

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  To be brutally honest, this is a type of stock that i learnt of fairly recently. Some of this stocks seem to be related because loan stock  are common stock and/or preferred stocks that are used as collateral to get a loan from a financial institution, individual business or any other third party. Just like with most [...]
• September 04, 2009
• 5:54

  PENNY STOCKS FOR THE SPECULATIVE INVESTOR

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  The previous post was about some of the dynamics of speculative stock and i mentioned that penny stocks were an example of speculative stocks [By the way, i know i said that i would handle penny stocks yesterday but i got caught up couldnt find time to post] Basically a penny stock is a share that trades [...]
• September 02, 2009
• 2:32

  A LITTLE ABOUT SPECULATIVE STOCK

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  Speculative stock is basically a stock that an investor, banking on gut feeling, invests in with the hope that the stock value will appreciate. This conclusion is normally not backed by detailed analysis. The end result is that these types of stocks have a very high risk compared to any profit that they MIGHT generate in [...]
• August 31, 2009
• 3:32

  SMALL COMPARISON BETWEEN THE NSE AND WALL STREET

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  In  the previous post, a list of the most successful east african public companies, i briefly delved into the fact that the Nairobi Stock Exchange is the most developed in East Africa and is a major contender in the African Stock Markets. I have been reading a little about Wall Street and i found the most [...]
• August 28, 2009
• 5:32

  MOST SUCCESSFUL EAST-AFRICAN PUBLIC COMPANIES

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  In the last post that i wrote,(income stock explained), the issue of east african companies came up in the comments box and i thought that instead of emailing that reader, i should make a post on them. So the following is a brief history of the nairobi stock exchange(NSE) and the most well known companies that [...]
• August 26, 2009
• 4:11

  INCOME STOCK EXPLAINED

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  What are income stock you may ask? To be obscenely honest, i only got to know about them fairly recently. So this is a post on what i discovered about them. If a stock has returns higher than the market average then it can be referred to as an income stock Basically income stock are stocks a [...]
• August 24, 2009
• 6:10

  PLEASE DO NOT INVEST IN MUTUAL FUNDS!!

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  Yes, against my better judgment, I am telling you what not to do with your money. Read on and see why I am saying this. If you own a mutual fund, you will most likely retire with less cash than if you had put your initial investment in a boring investment like an index fund There is [...]