Category Archives: ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

Bridge Loans and Hard Money: An Investment Opportunity?

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen Two weeks ago, we asked in a post about Alternative Investments:  “If not the stock market, then … Continue reading

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Alternative Investments: If Not the Stock Market, then What?

“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” -Benjamin Graham As we saw in our last post, the truth about the stock market has been obscured for too long. Mutual funds and stocks, the … Continue reading

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Health Savings Accounts: Earn Healthy Financial Returns with an HSA

“Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are IRAs on steroids.” – Paul Zane Pilzer, economist, author, entrepreneur, professor. This month, we continue to explore health and wealth. Last week, we examined FSAs (or Flexible Spending Accounts/Arrangements), a tax-slashing employee benefit that most … Continue reading

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The Controversy Over Life Settlements

“Death takes no bribes.” – Benjamin Franklin On the surface, the concept of Life Settlements can be a bit shocking at first. Let’s face it, making money on someone else’s natural death sounds like an investment idea cooked up in … Continue reading

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Life Settlements: Why Investors Love Them to Death

“Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” – Ambrose Bierce, American journalist Insurance is indeed a game of odds. … Continue reading

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Life Settlements 101: The Emergence of a New Asset Class

“So far as reasonable safety permits, it is desirable to give to life policies the ordinary characteristics of property. To deny the right to sell except to persons having such an interest is to diminish appreciably the value of the … Continue reading

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