08 February 2010
Thomas Fischer is Senior Vice President of Jyske Global Asset Management. Thomas Fisher & Gary Scott at the Jyske Global Asset Management conference, Naples Florida June 2009. Thomas began his banking career in 1975. In 1978 he started in the trading room as a Foreign Exchange dealer, and spent the next 22 years on the telephone trading [...]
08 February 2010
There is a resale in Cotacachi… a top studio in Prima Vera I available for $49,000 This has been the most popular property I have ever seen in Cotacachi… the unit that Merri and I first bought and lived in. Everybody loved it. So many people offered to buy it, that we finally gave in and sold [...]
07 February 2010
Ecuador income potential in Ecuador’s markets comes in many forms… even bread dough. See our weekly review for February 7, 2010 here. Here is how to turn bread into dough… the cash kind. On our export tours, delegates used to visit the village of Calderon and looked at Ecuador exports called masapan. Mazapan is made from bread dough [...]
06 February 2010
Ecuador has a pretty good internet infrastructure. I have better response in Cotacachi than I do here in Florida. Every time it rains hard here in Lake County Florida… my DSL goes haywire. The speed is just barely capable of providing streaming on hulu.com… sometimes. Other times it is not adequate. In the larger cities of [...]
05 February 2010
Jyske Global Asset Management seminars in 2010 may help your portfolio survive and grow. Sadly at a time when American investors need more multi currency investments and a better global view, overseas banks are increasingly restricted from helping US investors. Anti tax evasion, money laundering and anti terrorism regulations have created so many regulations on banks [...]
05 February 2010
Yesterday’s message Ecuador FARC Thoughts inspired many comments I would like to share. Plus after the comments, I hope… is a provoking thought on why… bears get rich… sometimes. Bulls get rich sometimes. Pigs always get slaughtered. First, the comments on Ecuador FARC & drugs. Ecuador FARC & Drugs Comment #1: Hi Gary and Merri, Of course Ecuador like [...]
04 February 2010
Numerous readers have forwarded a spammed email they have read about the FARC, drugs and Iran in Ecuador. The email leads to a report entitled “Ecuador at Risk: Drugs, Thugs, Guerrillas and the Citizens Revolution” I won’t comment much on the email or the report itself since it seems quite slanted, aimed more at alarming than informing [...]
03 February 2010
Ecuador real estate prices can be low yet… I try to restrain from pushing low end Ecuador real estate like these town houses that start at US$29,999 for an 861 square foot 3 bedroom unit. Here is what Bonnie Keough, who accompanied our group on the Quito Mindo tour wrote about these condos. “Gary, this is the complex of [...]
02 February 2010
We have written many times about the Arboretto residential project (see below) in Mindo Ecuador. We have found that many readers, especially those, searching for warmer climates, like this project. Those who do, may find the paid advertisement, sent by Brian Kearney, below of interest. Gary Paid Advertisement Unfortunately, my wife and I need to leave Ecuador urgently to [...]
01 February 2010
An Ecuador India connection can help you enjoy greater wealth and better health. As I was checking the weather online yesterday I noticed that the most read article at the weather channel was on how to reduce stress. We change accelerating, we live in a stressful world… so we need every way possible to reduce stress. This [...]
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