Arent there any kind of investments you can do online besides the 3 mentioned? They all perform lousy-anything other than markets as long as you can trade it online and make profits.

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As we mentioned in previous articles we know that our government only represents about 30% of our retirement income. The company retirement pension plan offers another 30 % and many of us do not have one. It is up to individuals to invest wisely short and long term in order to make up for the short fall if he or she would like to live comfortably after retirement without giving up some retirement plans. In this article, we will discuss investment return and inflation.

1. Inflation risk
Inflation means too much money chasing too few goods, and this results in prices for goods and services going up. Inflation may also be expressed as too much money having been printed by the central bank causing too much money compares to the same goods produced.
Sometimes with the economy’s down turn and to avoid the country falling into recession, some governments may overreact with stimulated packages, causing too much money in the market resulting in inflation. Normally, in the inflation period, interest rates to go up, all leading to a vicious spiral.
Inflation is measured by the annual percentage (%) change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
In this environment your investment’s real return must be higher than zero, otherwise you are losing money. Real return = rate of return of investment minus inflation rate.

2. Interest rate risk
Investment always carries interest rate risk
a) All long-term bonds are sensitive to ups and downs of the interest rate. When interest rates go up, long term bond prices suffer the most compared to short term bonds, and low rates do the opposite.
b) It is for your own investment’s sake by diversifying holdings and having debt securities with a range of maturities.
c) Common stocks are also influenced by high interest rates, because the high rates discourage business expansion. When the interest rate is down, businesses are likely to borrow for business expansion.

3. Market risk
The supply and demand law governs the marketing risk as follow:
a) When demand increases, supply decreases, thereby increasing the cost of the product.
b) When demand falls, supply increases at first and then it decreases.

4. Business risk
Investors are attracted to companies with growing or stable earnings, and they usually pay a higher price for investing in them, but under the down turn of the economy, the risk of earnings from the business decline, reducing not only your equity but also your return. It is for investor’s sake to defend against risks in your investment portfolio by understanding current economic conditions, knowledge of investments, and diversification.

I hope this information will help. If you need more information, you can read the complete series of the above subject at my home page:

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We always try to know about debt markets. What is it? In general, equities market is known for everyone. But, debt market always creates confusion among people. Actually, the capital market comprises two markets, one is equities market and the second one is debt market.

Equity market is the market in which shares are issued and traded, either through exchanges or over the counter markets. It is also called stock market. It is one of the most vital areas of an economy. Because it gives opportunity to companies to raise capital and at the same time investors get a slice of ownership in a company with the potential to realize gains based on its future performance.

Whereas, debt market is a market for the issuance, trading and settlement in fixed income securities of various types. Fixed income securities can be issued by a wide range of organizations including the Central and State Governments, public bodies, statutory corporations, banks and institutions and corporate bodies

In debt market fixed income securities of various types and features are issued and traded. Debt Markets are therefore, markets for fixed income securities issued by Central and State Governments, Municipal Corporations, Govt. bodies and commercial entities like Financial Institutions, Banks, Public Sector Units, Public Ltd. Companies to raise money.

Debt market is the pillar of any economy.  And it plays a vital role for growing country. If, any country need a huge amount of capital for industrial and financial growth then fixed income securities can play a critical role.  

Fixed Income securities are one of the most innovative and dynamic instruments evolved in the financial system. It offers one of the most attractive investment opportunities with regard to safety of investments, adequate liquidity and flexibility in structuring a portfolio. At the same time it is easy to monitor and gives long term reliability and decent returns.

The Fixed Income Securities Market, also known as the debt market or the bond market, is easily the largest of all the financial markets in the world today. The Debt Market has, as such, a very prominent role to play in the efficient functioning of the world financial system and in catalyzing the economic growth of nations across the globe.

The Indian debt market is today one of the largest in Asia and includes securities issued by the Government, public sector undertakings, other government bodies, financial institutions, banks and corporate.

The issue and trading of fixed income securities are regulated by different bodies in India. Government securities and issues by banks, Institutions are regulated by the RBI. The issue of non-government securities comprising basically issues of ‘Corporate Debt’ is regulated by SEBI.

(www.abndigital.com) Lerato Mbele speaks with Bankole Odusanya, from United Bank for Africa, looking at: Days trade on the NSE; Auction on government bonds; Expectations for the federal bond markets; Preferred maturity bonds; Central bank interventions.

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