The huge demographic problem… plus debt and Congress’ inability to fix these problems means we need diversification out of the US dollar.
The Canadian dollar has been strong against the US dollar.
Canadian dollar versus US dollar chart at www.finance.yahoo.com
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Canadian investments make sense… for now.
Canada has solid banks, vast agriculture, mining operations, and energy reserves making it perhaps the most stable country in the world.
Despite the recession in 2007, the Big Five Canadian banks have booked $18.9 billion total profits while the five biggest U.S. banks had $37 billion loss.
Canada is rich in water and natural resources, fertile farmlands, aluminum, copper, gold, iron ore, nickel, uranium and the “black gold” of Albertan oil sands.
There is plenty of land, resources, a immigration policy that ensures the sustainability of social programs and cushions against the damaging effect of an aging population, the future is pretty bright.
The Canadian equity market has performed really well long term.
The MSCI Canada Index ETF (Symbol EWC) is an easy way to cover the Canadian market.
EWC seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI Canada Index. The fund invests at least 90% of its assets in the securities of its underlying index and in depositary receipts. The underlying index consists of stocks traded primarily on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Components primarily include energy, financial and material companies.
See more on the EWC ETF at the link below.
Yet Canada’s population pyramid does not look so good.
Over the years, like most of the industrialized world… demographics get worse!
There will be almost as many at retirement age as those at working age.
So a mix with another younger country (demographically speaking) adds more long term profit potential.
Vietnam is a good example.
The market is down as this chart shows.
The demographics look good.
One way to invest in this market is with the VNM ETF
American faces a bad huge demographic problem and debt. This could weaken the US dollar. An 80% in Canada and 20% Vietnam mix could provide diversification…safety now in Canada and long term profit potential in Vietnam.
Gary
Super Thinking + International Investing & Business Seminar
Super Thinking + International Investing & Business Seminar, February 1-2-3, 2103 in Eustis Florida.This is the premier seminar we have been conducting every February for over 30 years. This February is special because the best opportunities come at the darkest hour and that time is here. Learn how to…
* Turn $499 into $142,020… per year.
* Buy a beach view Ecuador home for $16,000.
* Borrow yen at 2.5% and gain a 5% profit in three weeks.
In addition its winter! Lake County Florida, with over 1,000 named lakes and the charm of Eustis, is a special place especially at the this time of year.
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These are balmy winter days I shot of the Florida winter from…
my canoe.
Forces have come together for the biggest economic expansion in history. Huge profits are waiting in business and investing… whether you are just starting… in the middle… are ready to retire or start a new career.
One reason for this timing is cyclical. Equity markets are selling at some of their best valuations in years.
This optimistic outlook is based on the development of earnings, cash flows, dividends and book values.
When you look at the big picture… from the turn of the century until now the entire global economic history has been a series of slow downs and catch ups, but over the long run values in the stock market have risen about 9.1 percent, respectively, compounded annually.
There are always emotional reasons for slow downs… as we have seen in the past five years… the worries of double dip recessions… high unemployment… concerns about fiscal cliffs. Such fears hold investors back. Yet global population growth and advances in production and prosperity are relentless. Values increase as prices stagnate. Then markets break free and rocket upwards creating wealth, prosperity and growth.
Economic breakouts create fortunes. This February I get to share with you three… enormous profit possibilities…. one in business…. one in investing and one in Ecuador.
All the facts have come together. The next boom is about to begin.
We can see the power of breakouts from the last BIG ONE in 1979. Warren Buffet saw it coming. He mentioned it in a famous 1979 Forbes article “You Pay a Very High Price in the Stock Market for a Cheery Consensus”.
Everything looked bleak.
The 1980s recession, the worst since the Great Depression, was about to begin. Yet in 1979 Buffet said…. BUY NOW. On August 13, 1982 the biggest global bull stock market in history began.
The Dow’s 1982 to 1999, relentless 17 year climb is just one breakout we can see.
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1979 was the darkest hour. The herd was thinking negatively. The reality? A boom was on! Then in 1999 another economic contraction began and has been with us till now… 14 years. The cycle is repeating. This is the beginning of an even bigger boom.
“Its not what’s happening that counts. It’s what you do with it.”
Make no mistake… Merri and I have been able to help readers have better lives, less stress and to make fortunes during these last 17 economically depressed years. Yet the simple fact is that the really big profits come at the start of a boom. This is why I want to kick off 2013 with you and share more than my usual confidence and enthusiasm.
The seminar is divided into three main sessions.
Each session helps you learn how to gain freedom, remove stress, earn more and do more good in and for the world.
Session One : International Micro Business – “How to Have a Positive Global Income”. You can turn $499 in $142,020 a year, even in small towns.
Session Two : Ecuador Living and Real Estate.
Sessions Three: International & Value Investing Outside the Box.
Here is a partial syllabus of the seminar:
SESSION ONE: How to Turn Your Passion into a Profitable Microbusiness. A micro business is the best investment you can make. Start small and magnify your investment with your effort, enthusiasm and energy.
* Turn $499 into $142,020 through writing and publishing… without risk. In just one year. Cash in on the blowback from the global community. The global economy is good but big business… big government…. big medicine and global everything is also impersonal, often harsh and inhumane. This expansionary process leaves us believing in nothing. We are cynical of the global banks… the aggressive police… the intrusive government… the big church… the monetized medicine… the negative media… the unfair laws…. the failing currencies… all the broken promises.
Yet as humans, we have to believe in something and our last bastion… the one we can see, hear, taste, smell and feel is our local community… either as a place or as a collection of like minded souls.
This is also where we can actually accomplish something and actually have an impact at doing some good.
On January 1st, 2013, Merri and I launched a new business “Positive Community Magazines” (PCM) with David Cross our webmaster and Dave & Sherry Johnson. This opportunity is for anyone young or old. PCM offers excellent income… less stress, fulfillment and positive service to the community. This business helps publish positive community magazines in small towns or to small communities of highly focused, like minded souls.
Warren Buffet believes so much in this potential that he is buying newspapers in small towns all over America.
In 2012 Berkshire Hathaway purchased 63 small and mid-sized daily and weekly newspapers throughout the United States.
He plans to buy more and says: “I like buying individual papers at the right prices.”
Buffet stated that Berkshire is not buying big newspapers or more newspaper shares because he believes in the value of local communities.
You’ll meet Dave & Sherry Johnson who had a good life until times turned sour during the 2007 recession. They lost everything so they moved to Asheboro, North Carolina which Forbes magazine highlighted as “One of America’s Ten Fastest-Dying Towns in the USA”. They started a community magazine and from the ashes it has risen from success to success. They now earn over $17,000 a month. They came to our Writer’s Camp. We saw their amazing business model and let no moss grow under our feet before asking them if they would help us spread this incredible concept around the world.
We know trends when we see them and this is even more exciting than the trend we saw in Ecuador’s expansion 17 years ago.
As an Independent Community Publisher of Positive Community Magazines, you will publish positive, upbeat community publications dedicated to representing, encouraging and celebrating the community you serve by focusing on the lifestyles, talents, gifts and contributions of the people who live and work there. Plus you’ll earn as much as $17,635 a month.
Learn how to gain a proven business model with training – archive of articles – design templates – access to low-cost printing – marketing materials – and a very, very low investment (as little as $499) to start.
The Money – Here is the Proforma Income for a 64-page Magazine
In the model magazines the ad revenues run around $13,000 (40% ads/$500 per ad page) and editorial revenues of $4,635 or a gross income of $17,635 a month.
Printing and operational expenses are in the $5,800 range leaving profits of $11,835. You increase the bottom line if you do more of the design and distribution work yourself.
Other advantages of magazine publishing include the freedom to set your own schedule, PRESS credentials, prestige, service to the community, philanthropy, being in the know and having a well respected profession.
Saves Lives. Here is just one example of the good you can do. Sherry Johnson shared this story.
She wrote: Gary, we even save lives. In one issue of their magazine they told the story of a little boy who was struggling with a rare disease that caused life-threatening seizures. One day, while his mom was out shopping, the little boy had a seizure so she rushed him to the hospital.
She called ahead and the nurse met her at the emergency room. As it happens, the nurse had read the article in the magazine (which someone had brought to the nurse’s lounge) and she recognized the little boy from the article. Since she knew immediately what was wrong with him, no time was wasted and he was treated quickly. They were told that this particular seizure was especially bad and that the article probably saved his life. This doesn’t happen every day but once in a lifetime is good enough!
Historic Downtown Eustis
Another session in the seminar shows “How to have an international micro business.” These sessions are highly practical and usable. They focus on how to use modern technology to start global micro businesses based around a website, with minimal investments of time and capital.
By starting small and building with stepping stones and a harmonious focus, Merri and I have learned how to own profit generating phrases at Google. We, along with our webmaster David Cross share the secrets of how you can use words to create your own global income.
The seminar shares how we us “Seven Ps” (Person, Problem and Promise, Product) to zero in on key word phrases. The Fifth P (Promise) develops new customers. The Sixth P is the Prospecting Path and Seventh P is the Presentation that creates income.
Learn about other microbusiness possibilities…
In the global micro business sessions we’ll see ideas on how to:
* Create Export Businesses
* Earn from Self Publishing and Writing
* Develop Internet Sales
* Cash in on Ecuador Business Ideas
* Find Organic Agricultural Business Ideas
* Profit With Health Business Ideas
* Turn Ideas for Tours and Seminar Businesses into Profitable Lifestyles
* Create a Multi Dimension extra income lifestyle.
Multi dimensional living can create a lifestyle that brings better health and lasting “real” wealth. Many readers are choosing a multi dimensional lifestyle, living on a farm and earning in other ways such as writing.
Activity on the farm in North Carolina. It’s tax deductible and profitable but…
I cannot call it work.
Merri and I have been fortunate. The self publishing business has treated us well. However a great deal of our financial stability also comes from being multi dimensional. We have lived on our own farm and seminar camp and orange grove and in our own Ecuador hotel and hacienda. We are always fixing things up…. buying broken places or taking broken ideas and making them whole.
For decades we have been buying houses and fixing them… painting, restructuring and such. This is our hobby… that happens to be profitable… or maybe that’s our business and writing is the hobby that also happens to be profitable?
The point is what we do is not work. We just regularly do what we love and figure out how to earn income in the process. The adage framed on my desk given to me by a beloved Indian Pundit is “Action is Thy Duty… Reward Not Thy Concern“. With this motto and a bit of common sense living joyfully and earning merge.
Our daughter, Cinda, and David Cross, our son-in-law webmaster and granddaughters, Sequoia and Teeka, have taken this lifestyle route as well. Cinda loves animals so is a veterinarian and specializes in animal acupuncture which she can do at their farm.
David has his website and voice-over business he can run from their farm and the girls love working in the gardens.
David and Cinda’s multi dimensional farm. They now produce 60% of their food and earn extra income selling their excess organic crops.
Using the Bio Degradable “Bio Wash” to gain added value we have been able to double our production and quadruple the profits in our orange grove.
In the multi dimension segment of the seminar we review how to spot “live on agri and B&B opportunity” in small towns and Ecuador. We’ll also look at Bio Wash, that we have supported now for nearly 20 years. We’ll show the environmental as well as health and business benefits it brings.
Join Merri and me at our Super Thinking + Investing and Business Seminar – February 1-2-3 , 2013, Eustis, Florida.
See How to Attend this Seminar for $177 instead
SESSION TWO: Ecuador Living. Talk about catching an early wave… Merri and I caught the Ecuador expat trend right at its beginning 17 years ago. We brought readers who joined us in Ecuador then… some amazing opportunities. This cycle has matured but there are still great bargains if you know what to do. No one has as much experience and as many contacts in this field. This experience is also dependable. We do not sell Ecuador real estate so you won’t be hearing any hidden agendas.
A beach house for $16,000? Is that bargain enough? You cannot beat experience when it comes to learning all the ins and outs and buying real estate in a country like Ecuador.
For example after more than a dozen years of traveling… working… buying and selling real estate and running businesses in Ecuador… we led Jean Marie Butterlin to the coast and he began scouring the beaches from Manta, north to Pedernales… finding the bargains…. meeting the landowners… understanding the rules, regulations and customs.
That experience made him the expert of Ecuador beach real estate so that bargains could be found and so his clients could overcome the biggest problems and intelligently buy real estate on the coast.
We’ll share how to buy beach property intelligently.
Here is Jean Marie’s second beach home…. secluded overlooking this…
isolated beach home for just…
$16,000.
You’ll learn how to overcome one of the biggest mistakes most real estate buyers make on the beach.
Dr. Andres Cordova will speak and join me in updating Ecuador real estate and residency rules.
Dr. Andres Cordova speaking at our seminars.
Andres is our friend and Ecuador attorney. He is the grandson of one of Ecuador’s more famous presidents and was a senior partner in a law firm that represents Ecuador’s treasury.
We’ll also review how to create an Ecuador export business as Merri and I have for many years.
Roberto Ribadeneira speaking at our seminar about how he can shop, ship and charge for Ecuador export businesses.
We’ll review The Ecuadorshop Logistics service that provides all these services for exporters in importers into the USA.
We’ll share how Roberto provides an exclusive service that helps readers who export from Ecuador monitor production and quality and assure timely delivery.
This is a great service that provides every detail for importing products into the USA. We have used this logistics service ourselves for years and became the largest shipper of Ecuador roses last Christmas. One big benefit is that the service can send each product direct to the buyer in the USA. The Ecuadorshop Logistics service makes small and medium scale Ecuador exporting possible.
Join Merri and me at our Super Thinking + Investing and Business Seminar – February 1-2-3 , 2013, Eustis, Florida.
See How to Attend this Seminar for $177 instead
Session THREE – International & Value Investing Outside the Box. This session shows how to protect your investments and savings, plus what to do with extra profits you’ll earn.
* Borrow Low Deposit High & Multi currency investing. Few decisions will be as important to your wealth as WHICH CURRENCIES to held your wealth. This has been our area of expertise since the 1970s… plus we have worked with Jyske Bank…. one of the largest currency traders in the world for decades.
Learn how to gain currency diversification and how to leverage high returns with low cost multi currency loans.
We are currently leveraging via the overvalued Japanese yen. Jysek recommends a split dollar/euro leverage. We’ll share both strategies and how and why this investing tactic has remained a wonderful overall long term strategy we have tracked and recommended from time to time for more than 20 years.
We gave a borrow yen signal on December 12, 2012.
Since then the US dollar has risen 6.26% against the Japanese yen. Readers picked up 5% profit in the less than three weeks.
Dollar yen chart at www.finance.yahoo.com January 4, 2013.
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On December 12, 2012 one USA dollar would buy 82.44 yen. January 4, 2013 that same dollar would buy 88.23 yen.
Yet this is not a fast trading for forex profits strategy.
The Multi Currency Sandwich is based on long term, extra earnings from positive carry.Let’s review a simple Multi Currency Sandwich example.
Here are the current invest loan interest rates from Jyske Bank.
In this example we invest $350,000 (we’ll see how to invest smaller amounts in a moment). We borrow $520,000 in US dollars at 2.62% and $130,000 in euro at 2.5%. This is the loan ratio used by JGAM at this time and gives us $1 million to invest.
We invest in two bonds. $200,000 is in a bond issued by Santos denominated in euro with a coupon of 8.25%. The bond comes due 22-09-2070. This is a medium risk bond and yields of about 6.9%.
The second investment is $800,000 in the US dollar denominated bond offered by Danske Bank with a 7.125% coupon due 21-09-2037. This is a medium risk bond yielding about 5.9%.
The return on the Santos bond is appx: $13,800
The return on the Danske bond is appx: $47,200
The total return is $61,000.
The loan cost in euro is $3,250 (2.5% on $130,000).
The loan cost in dollars is $13,780 (2.6% on $520,000).
The total loan cost of $17,030 leaves a positive carry (extra profit). The total return after the loan cost $43,970 or about 12.5% return on the $350,000 invested. That return is diminished by one time, upfront loan costs on the first year of $1,300. Then there are no added loan costs for the five year term of the loan.
The figures above are used for illustration purposes only. These are not recommendations as a portfolio would be far more diversified.
The risk in in the bonds… not currency parities. Euros and dollars were borrowed. Equal amounts of Euros and dollars were invested.
Now let’s look at the same example but with borrowed yen. The yen loan creates potential forex profit… or loss.
In this example one dollar equals about 82 yen.
Assume the same multi currency sandwich was created… but with $650,000 worth of borrowed yen instead of loans in dollars and euro.
The interest rate for yen is lower… only 2.5% versus 3.125% for the US dollar. This bumps the return up to almost 12.8%.
However the forex potential is what becomes interesting. At 82 yen per dollar this requires a 53.3 million yen.
Assume that the yen returns to the purchasing power trend of 117 as shown in the chart below.
Chart from Bloomberg.com shows the yen at 117
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A shift from 82 yen per dollar to 117 yen per dollar is a 35% drop. If those dollars and euros bought back yen at the 117 parity it requires only $455,555 to repay that had been worth $650,000. The forex profit is $194,445 or an extra 29% beyond the positive carry. If that drop took three years to happen and one held the bonds (and their value did not change)…. the total return over three years would be 67.4%.
That is the upside. For a loss of the same magnitude the yen would have to rise from 82 yen per dollar to 53 yen per dollar… a highly unlikely event.
Thomas Fischer Sr. VP and forex advisor for Jyske Global Asset Management will update leverage strategies. Two other investment advisers and brokers will review how to diversify in bonds and shares and review the forex risks to make sure that such a speculation can work for you.
Thomas Fischer will review the portfolios they manage. This year they easily beat their benchmarks. We have no exposure to the euro and in our leveraged portfolios we use a 100% euro funding. As you can see this has also led to a return of 18.4% in a speculative performance (medium risk with 2X).
Here is JGAM’s record.
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Betting Against the Yen for Even Smaller Amounts.Lou Shinamin at Ruggie Wealth will outline opportunities using ETFs.
Lou recently wrote: I am watching a very nice cup and handle pattern forming on the Japanese Yen. Aside from Forex, the easiest way to take advantage of the dollar strengthening against the Yen would be to look at the ETF : YCS . Ultra short Japanese yen.
Lou will update the market and positions that make current sense in February.
Multi currency investing offers five enhanced benefits… asset protection…. greater privacy… broader diversification… forex potential and positive carry potential. The seminars teaches how to gain these benefits.* Stocks that rise from the cycle of war, productivity and demographics. Cycles create recurring profits. Economies and stock markets cycle up and down around every 15 years as shown in this graph.
These stock market bull and bear cycles are based on cycles of human interaction, war, technology and productivity.
Economic downturns create war. Military struggle (like the Civil War, WWI, WWII and the Cold War (WWIII), super charge inventiveness that creates new forms of productivity…the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, production line processes, jet engines, TV, farming techniques, plastics, telephone, computer and lastly during the Cold War, the internet. The military technology shifts to domestic use. A boom is created that leads to excess. Excess leads to correction. Correction creates an economic downturn and again to war.
Investments in the winner of WWIV. The war quietly took place… and the US won. This has created special opportunity for many shares.
Here are just three specific examples we’ll review:
United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X). The American steel industry recently received the economic equivalent of a gift from the heavens: natural gas. Industrial firms in Pittsburgh are sitting on top of an oil-rich formation that stretches from New York to Ohio… with modest estimates suggest of at least 100 trillion cubic feet of gas.
The switch from coal to cheaper natural gas will save U.S. Steel hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Foreign competitors in Europe and Asia will need to pay much more. Many economists say that this new gas reserve will fundamentally shift global economic logic to uniquely benefit the United States. Yet prices of US Steel shares have remained stagnant.
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK). The Department of Homeland Security is planning to buy a further 750 million rounds of ammo in addition to the 450 million rounds purchased earlier this year.
ATK Delivers 2 Billion 7.62mm Rounds to the U.S. Army from the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) and 350 Million 5.56mm Enhanced Performance Rounds Using Modernized Production Line Equipment in a $131 Million in Small-Caliber Ammunition Order.Since assumption of LCAAP manufacturing operations in 2000, ATK has increased the production rate for 7.62mm ammunition five-fold in direct support of U.S. Army requirements. Alliant Techsystems manufactures everything from rockets for NASA to big weapons, space rockets, launch vehicles, missiles, missile-defense interceptors, satellites and bullets. In fact it is the world’s largest manufacturer of bullets. Over the past 10 years, the company produced an average return on equity of 31.51% but the share price is in the dumps. Defense sector shares have been selling at historically cheap valuations and ATK shares have been selling at ratios even below the industry average. The 10 year average P/E ratio for its shares has been 18% but is currently below 10% about half the ten year average.
Aegion/Insituform (NASDAQ: AEGN). Aegion is a water investment that makes sense because “Where there is muck, there is brass”. The world’s water supply has too much muck! Investing in water simply makes sense in every way. IN the last equity boom, $1,000 invested in water utility stocks at the end of 1981 grew $39,980 at the end of 2001, more than double the growth of S&P 500. The fundamentals for the future are even better.
Decentralized, or distributed, water treatment will make up a huge part of the future water business. If you can use water over and over again at its point of use, that’s beats any other technology because you don’t have to transport the water. Aegion is a leader in trench less water line replacement. Their process is the most widely used trench less method for restoring structural integrity to and removing infiltration from sewers so worn out water treatment systems can continue to be used rather than replaced.
* More Water. Other water investment we review include Water Asset Management, Allianz RCM Global Water Fund, PFW Water Fund, Kinetics Water Infrastructure Fund, the Geneva-based Pictet Global Water Fund, SAM Sustainable Water Fund based in Zurich the Irish Calvert Global Water Fund.
* My Portfolio Review. I am always looking for value so my portfolio changes as events unfold.
Here is a typical portfolio I hold at JYSKE and update the changes I have made and why.
Type Int. Rate % of portfolio
Savings US $ 0.125% 5% Currency
Savings EUR 0.125% 1% Euro
Savings Pounds 2% GBP
Equities
Jyske Invest Turkey 2% Lira
JI European Equity 5% Euro
Suntec Reit 2% SGD
Hyflux Water 2% SGD
Jyske Bank shares 4% DKK
KGHM Polska Miedz (Copper Silver) 5% PLN
Brookfield Renewable Power 5% CAD
Unicredit Itakian Bank 3% Euro
Axel Springer AG German Publisher Euro 2%
Sky Deutschland AG German TV Euro 2%
Silver Wheaton Corporation Silver 5% US$
Bonds
Ishares Maci Latin Amer 5% Mixed Latin
JI Emerging Local Bonds 4% Mixed
JI Emergin Market Bonds 3% Mixed
Mexican Bonos MxnGvt 2% MXN Rate 8.000% Mature 19.12.2013
Bond Bombardier Inc. 2% Can$ 7.250% 15.11.2016
Bond Rabobank, Nederland 4% NOK 4.000% 29.05.2013
Bond European Investment 5% AUD 6.000% 14.08.2013
Bond Kreditanstalt Für 5% CAD 4.950% 14.10.2014
Bond European Ivtment BK 5% NZD 6.500% 10.09.2014
Euro Invment BK Turkey 3% TRY 10.000% 28.01.2011
Euro Investment BK Brazil3% BRL 11.125% 14.02.2013
Bond Brazil GVT 3% BRL 12.500% 05.01.2016
Bond Brazil GVT 3% BRL 12.500% 05.01.2016
Bond Euro Invment BK 3% AUD 6.000% 14.08.2013
Bond Kreditanstalt Für 2% NZD 6.250% 15.04.2013
Bond Euro Invment BK 3% PLN 6.500% 12.08.2014
Bond Mexican Fixed Rate 3% MXN 8.000% 17.12.2015
Loan -3% USD Interest rate 2.5%
You’ll gain details on how to actually buy such shares and bonds from Mike McDonald at Aegis Capital Corporation.
* Lake County Real Estate. Shirley Peacock our broker in Lake County will share why the value is special here and our search for good value real estate in this area.
Sunset on Lake Eustis.
* British Skipton Building Society 10% Variable Bond due 12/12/18 paying 10.1%. See why Britain put an American in charge of the Pound and how this makes England an even more attractive currency to hold now.
Established in 1853, Skipton was among the first building societies and is Britain’s fourth largest building society with £13.9bn of assets and over 100 branches across the UK. They just reported a £22.3m pre-tax profit for the six months ending June 30, 2012, an increase of 253 per cent on the £6.3m profit it made in the first six months of last year.
* Position Update on British Bond ETFs. For investors who want broader diversification into higher yield British bonds the “iShares Markit iBoxx GBP Corporate Bond 1-5 ETF” is open to almost all investors.
* Three high yielding shares to consider: HSBC (symbol HBC) (Finance, 6.36% Depositary Shares, Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series B) -Royal Bank of Scotland (Symbol RBS) 7.25% Noncumulative Dollar Preference Shares Series H ADR and the ETF “iShares S&P U.S Preferred Stock Index Fund” (Symbol PFF). This etf has over 200 holdings and almost one fourth are in the financial sector. All ten of the largest positions as shown below are in the financial sector.
* What’s Up With Gold and Silver. One session looks at my current position on gold and silver and asset protection specialist Rich Checkan will review the state of the precious metal markets and potential problems ahead for US dollars. He’ll outline how interest rates at zero eliminate opportunity costs of diversification in precious metals and foreign currencies. He’ll review the firm commitment by the US government to winning the battle of the printing presses and what impact this could have in U.S. dollars.
Another reason to join us in February is the pension protection session.
The power of pensions invested globally to preserve wealth can be seen by Mitt Romney’s individual retirement account. The news reported during this run for President that Romney’s IRA holds more than $20.7 million.
Pension and IRA expert Larry Grossman will review how to maximize IRA investment gains so they can accumulate tax-free in an IRA with overseas investments. The method used by tax lawyers is to have the IRA invest through an offshore affiliate of the private-equity firm, known as an offshore blocker corporation. Any special tax is avoided because the IRA is investing in the offshore corporation, not in a private-equity partnership.
Finally and perhaps most important… you learn how to use Super Thinking.
The BIG ONE is coming but its not what’s happening that counts. It’s what you do with it.
The educational program Merri and I have developed uses a different form of frequency modulation that opens enormous opportunity for expansion, understanding, peacefulness as well as greater wealth.
FM teaching uses frequency (in music and with each sense… sight…. smell, tactile and even smell) to integrate brain waves so the process of absorbing, processing and recalling information is vastly accelerated. This brings forth the three C’s: Calm, Clarity and Coherence.
FM creates relaxed concentration… a key to happiness, health and success.
You learn whole brain thinking that can help improve your freedom, satisfaction and income through business.
This part of the seminar helps us integrate their brain waves so they are more intelligent, intuitive and relaxed.
The Super Thinking sessions show three ways (baroque music, relaxation and nutrition) to get into and stay in a state of relaxed concentration… a mental state shown to enhance almost every human capability… especially writing.
Merri and I are explorers so we have used this techniques for decades. We are always looking for what’s next… trying to stay on or ahead of the leading edge and need ways to think outside he box.
The Super Thinking sessions share how we do this to live better…. using frequency modulation to be smarter… stronger…. more energetic… more aware, friendlier, compassionate, happier and healthier.
We are in our 45th year of business and we share what we have learned and where this is leading our activities in our upcoming seminar. Join us.
Spotting new trends and applying them to our micro business has brought us a strong and continual flow of income through good times and bad. More importantly the process has been fulfilling…. beneficial to society and healthy. Now you can benefit from the latest… and perhaps strongest… of all the trends we have stumbled upon.
Applying the concepts of super thinking to spotting trends over the past 45 years has helped thousands of our readers make and save millions. The success of our readers has been a driving force in our lives yet we have always wanted to do more so continued looking deeper at ways we can share how to have income, stability, good health and contentment.
Join us to learn our most recent experiences and most advanced concepts and ideas.
Join Merri and me at our Super Thinking + Investing and Business Seminar – February 1-2-3 , 2013, Eustis, Florida.
See How to Attend this Seminar for $177 instead
Seminar Expands to Historic Eustis
The February seminar has grown to large for the meeting accommodations in Mt. Dora so has expanded a short distance down the road from Mt. Dora to Lake Eustis.
Downtown Eustis is experiencing a rebirth as the Lake Eustis Foundation has been established to revitalize the historic district.
The vision the foundation has for the area is retail, restaurant and office space on a lower level with luxury residential living space above and the seminar will be conducted in the Lake Eustis Foundation meeting hall in the historic district.
Here are photos of the area you can see from the meeting hall.
Boardwalk on Lake Eustis
Downtown Eustis.
Old Eustis at Night
Join Merri and me at our Super Thinking + Investing and Business Seminar – February 1-2-3 , 2013, Eustis, Florida.
Other speakers at the February seminar.
Thomas Fischer
Thomas speaking at our seminars.
Thomas, a Senior VP at Jyske Global Asset Management began banking in 1978 in the trading room of a Danish as a Foreign Exchange dealer and spent 22 years trading currencies in London and Germany where he was head of the international currency section of a major German broker company. During his time in Germany he successfully completed an MBA focusing on the external environment and corporate finance. We began working with Thomas 13 years ago when he joined Jyske Bank Private Banking and was promoted to Manager of International Client Relations. He is a member of JGAM’s Investment Committee focusing on the Foreign Exchange strategy and travels the world giving presentations about the markets and the investment opportunities at JGAM.
Dr. Andres Cordova
Dr. Andres Cordova. Andres is our friend and attorney. He is the grandson of one of Ecuador’s more famous presidents. He is a senior partner in a law firm that represents Ecuador’s treasury and has been developing real estate in Ecuador for 20 years.
Dave & Sherry Johnson
Dave and Sherry are venture partners with Merri and me and David Cross in the Positive Community Magazines. Dave and Sherry moved to Asheboro, North Carolina, a town voted by Forbes magazine as one of the worst ten small towns economically in the USA. After being clobbered in the last economic downturn they rose like Phoenix rising from the ashes and created Small Community Magazines that bring good news to the community and earn the publishers excellent profits. They are helping to expand this community concept globally.
David Cross
David has an unparalleled, hands-on marketing experience spanning 25 years in 22 countries for companies and charities large and small. He’s guided many companies and individuals to success in business and helped them achieve their marketing goals, both online and offline. He started working with the internet from the getgo and I have been lucky that he helped us start our website in the 1990s.
He was also Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Inc. in Baltimore, MD. David worked closely with Agora’s publishers and marketers and over an 8-year period helped to propel Agora’s online revenues to over $300 Million in 2009 until he came to work with Merri and me full time.
Bob Gandt
Our friend, Bob Gandt, published his first story at age sixteen – the same year he first soloed an airplane. Since then he has logged something over 25,000 hours, written and published thirteen books and countless articles.
Gandt’s flying career has been as eclectic as the subjects of his books. He has been a Navy fighter/attack pilot, weapons test pilot, flight instructor, air show performer, and airline captain.
At age 20 he was at the time the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy. As a carrier-based attack pilot, he logged over 300 carrier landings and nearly 2,000 hours in the A-4 Skyhawk. In his 1997 deja vu work, Bogeys and Bandits (Viking Penguin), he joins a Navy F/A-18 training squadron at the same base where he had trained years before.
In 1965 he began his career as a pilot for Pan American World Airways. For the next 26 years he flew around the globe, domiciled in places like New York, San Francisco, Berlin, and Hong Kong. His 1995 book, “Skygods” (Wm. Morrow & Co.), recounts the meteoric descent and crash of the once-great Pan Am.
In 1998 Bob made his screenwriting debut on the CBS series ”Pensacola: Wings Of Gold”. Drawing on the material from his book “Bogeys and Bandits”, he worked as writer and technical consultant for the twenty-two-episodes, which starred James Brolin as the commander of a Marine F/A-18 training squadron.
Bob’s sixth non-fiction work, “Intrepid”, co-authored by Bill White, with a foreword by former naval aviator and presidential candidate John McCain, was published in the autumn of 2008. In November, 2010 – “The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of WWII and the Men Who Fought It”, from Broadway Books.
In 2011 The New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States announced that Bob was winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.
Dr. Jim Vigue
Jim has a master’s degree in leadership, an MBA in marketing and a Ph.D. in holistic health. He is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and is board certified in alternative medicine.
Jim is also a former USA Baseball/Major League Player’s Association Coach of the Year as well as an award winning author on such diverse subjects as baseball, finance and menopause. He works with many professional athletes and his baseball book spoke out against steroids long before the condemnation was popular.
Jim’s most successful book has been my menopause (and other mid life issues women and their partners face). His son Kris also wrote a book while a college student that was subsequently used by the University of Dallas in their sports management program entitled “How to Achieve Your Million Dollar Dreams at Any Age”. The book isn’t about making a million dollars but more about making all your big
dreams come true, a great subject for high school and college
Kris had his dream of playing major league baseball ended by a career ending injury his freshman year at Stetson. Kris was named one of the top high school players in the country by Collegiate Baseball Magazine. His book is about having to give up on one dream and transition into others.
Larry Grossman
Larry Grossman began speaking at our seminars about 30 years ago after graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from Eckerd College. He is a Certified Financial Planner and Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®), awarded by the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) in conjunction with the Wharton School of Business.
With decades of experience in international financial planning, he became one of the first financial advisors to develop a compliant method for IRAs and pension plans offshore for asset protection and greater investment diversification. Larry’s method has been reviewed and approved by some of the top ERISA attorneys in the country.
Rich Checkan
Michael and Rich Checkan run Asset Strategies. They are specialists in asset protection, precious metal, and foreign currency and I have worked with them for over 30 years.
Michael McDonald
Mike McDonald is a Broker-Dealer Agen at Aegis Capital Corp. in Orlando, Florida. Individual securities are his specialty whether it be stocks, bonds, or other instruments whoever they are around the world. We have yet to find something that he did not have access to for our readers.
Lou Shinaman
Registered Investment Wealth Advisor with Ruggie Wealth with over 16 years of financial services experience and where he is senior member of our investment committee.
For part of the eight years prior to joining RWM, Louis traveled the world extensively, holding educational seminars in the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
Ann Tidwell
Ann and Ted Tidwell are the manufactures of Purely Green and Bio Wash, two bio degradable chemical products. Many highly trained agronomists are puzzled by the “out-of-the-box” yet obvious effectiveness of these products. The basis appears to be the incredibly small size of the sub-atomic particles that are able to penetrate and deliver nutrients to the plant. It is not a fertilizer but apparently increases the cation exchange capacity, electro-magnetic action of the roots and photosynthesis in the leaves.
This can improve the yield and increase the BRIX plus as a huge bonus is a natural insect deterrent because it is an exceptionally gentle yet powerful degreaser, it dissolves the lipid cellular membrane of small, soft bodied funguses and insects.
Bio Wash has secured Florida state permission to label our “Purely Green (PG) Oil Clean” as a soil amendment and Cation Exchange Stimulant. To the manufacturer’s knowledge, the Cation Exchange Stimulant label is the first ever approved.
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