08 FebCredit and Banking Money Saving Services



The first rule when applying for banking and credit services is to always read the fine print and to understand all of it. Read up, take it home, and analyze it, ask the banking manager questions. The fine print is there for a reason. The charges and requirements contained in there, will affect the savings or added expenses you incur, whenever you bank or use credit.

Checking Account

You can generate savings of more than $100.00 a year, when you select a checking account with a low or no minimum required balance. Request a list of the fees that are applicable to your account and compare with other checking account offers. Read the fine print. See if you qualify for the conditions and stipulations, the bank requires.

Savings account

Prior to opening a savings or investment account with the bank of your choice, ask the bank and check to see that the account is insured by the federal government (FDIC or NCUA). Otherwise, you will assume 100% of the risk; you may end up risking more rather than saving.

Certificates of deposit or treasury bills or notes. These certificates and notes are accurately called forced savings. They earn above average but only after, they’ve reached a maturity period. If you withdraw before the due date, you’ll incur penalties. This is a competent way to generate savings from funds you have no immediate need for.

Once you’ve selected the type of savings or investment products, compare the rates and fees offered by different institutions. These rates can vary a lot and, over time, can significantly affect interest earnings.

Credit Cards

You’ll generate more savings by researching on credit cards. Or you can call a research credit firm that will for a modest fee; send you a list of low-rate credit cards. Use the list to compare the features of each of these credit card companies, according to their interest rates and billing cycles. Is it a 28 day billing cycle, or a monthly one? What are the freebies? Such as Cash back or airline miles offers. Will you use these? You could be paying for these in the form of higher interest rates.

If you have a credit card, practice the habit of paying off your entire bill at months’ end. You generate savings by not paying late payment or over-the-credit-limit fees, which will add up to bigger charges.

If you have a lot of credit cards, consider using only one or two credit cards.

In the long run, your research on banking and credit services, will pay you back well in terms of consistent savings.

02 Dec2009 – The Era Of Offshore Investing – Why Take A Global Approach ?

It can be more than said that in the year 2009 that “Global Tax Planning” brings with a host and hosts of new, newer and newest concepts and procedures that may well be new or not even known by yourself , your family , banking , business advisers and even the most savvy of your knowledgeable friends and financial business acquaintances.

It can be well said that when selecting and using “tax havens” , as well as implementing global tax saving strategies you will require initial , workup information. Among these are basic , relevant information regarding global investing, private accounts , transferring funds, mail and email forwarding, secret safekeeping, computer privacy procedures as well as methods , personal privacy , counter intelligence as well as information sources.

One may well ask “Why Take the Global Approach to Investing and Investments ?” The answer to begin with , is that investing “offshore” will give you what might be called a “Launching Pad or Pads” to obtain direct access to a wrath of a vast quantities and availabilities to many investments and investment opportunities that are simply not available or available to North Americans – be they American , Canadian or other Nafta resident residents and investors. This alone is one , or more than one major reason why you may well want to create and utilize a foreign entity for investing globally. It can be more than said that investments made through your offshore investment account and accounts may be held in stable , and even rapidly appreciating and growing currencies such as Swiss Francs. British Pounds Sterling and Euro currency holdings.

It is conservatively estimated , that in 2008, over 61 % of the world’s investment opportunities in stocks , bonds as well as other investment opportunities and vehicles are found outside the North American boundaries . Thus a whole new world of investment opportunities affords the voracious investor. One only has to read the newspaper , financial source materials as well as on line financial authorities to come to the realization that many offshore economies are growing more rapidly than what were once the “established” or what were considered the base or basic industrial economies. Investing globally will provide you , your family and friends as well as financial acquaintances an opportunity and opportunities to invest in the high and higher growth regions of the world. All told you will be left with a vastly greater range of investment opportunities. All the while , while reducing your risk and risks through diversification of assets over a range of various countries – whose investment and investment opportunities not only were unavailable to you if not downright hidden from view as well as growth opportunities.

It can be well said , if not emphasized greatly , that with the wrath of modern communications avail be to the average person and investor – be they the technologies of the INTERNET and computerization , communication devices such as fax machines , world travel , and even modern day post , that the globe has not only become a smaller place but a much larger realm in terms of investment opportunities and global investment opportunities that abound to to the average person as well as modern investor in the calendar year of 2009. Happy , safe and private global investing.

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