How to Plan Your Investments

Whether you are an individual or a corporate body planning your investments ahead is of at most importance. As planning your investments means planning your future financial status and meeting unforeseen with ease and confidence it has become life blood that makes your path of hardships a bed of roses. Planning your finances involve planning your inflows and outflows i.e., In short managing the entire flow of funds during a certain course of time.

Thus, it is a must for anyone to plan your investments well in hand so; that your future will be safe and you can encounter any issue with ease and comfort. A proper investment planning would make your financial distress also a bliss as you always have a surplus reserve for different unforeseen of life. The reasons for financial distress could be multitudinous but the survival rate is higher and quicker for those who are financially planned when compared to those who are not. For having a proper investment planning you must follow few but regular steps which will save you at the eleventh hour. Let us look at few steps that you must follow to cushion yourself financially and to get a tag of well investment planner.

• The first and foremost step in investment planning is to assess your income. Asses all your inflows, which must include any sort of long term or annual cash inflows that you are expecting.

• Once you assessed your cash inflows, the next major step is to set a goal that could be any specific aspect that you would like to achieve with the money you are going to save from this year onwards.

• Once you set forth your goals and assess your inflows the next step is to plan your savings. The other way planning your investments. To plan your investments well you must know what your risk coefficient is and how much profits you want to make out of your little investments. To know this you must look at variety of financial and demographic and socio- economic factors that affect you and your family’s lifestyle.

• Once you are done with the assessment of your risk coefficients and return expectations the next big leap is to set an investment strategy. Under this, you will choose among different investment alternatives that are available to you based on your risk and profit margins.

• Once you choose a basket of investment options, go with the ones that are convenient for you in terms of time horizon, maturity period and return margins and so on. Having a clear investment strategy would not only make you a good investment planner but also a supersaver to your own self and to your family at times of emergencies.

How To Choose To Invest In A Company?

In the beginning, every investor has the first question on their mind which is what will be his first step to invest in a company or how to choose a right company to invest and build a portfolio. There are lots of things to understand for an initial investment. You should have good knowledge about its profits and losses. You should also be aware of how long you can successfully stay in the stock market.

Although the stock market does not guarantee for long term profit, it’s a place of the type of risk, where you can ever be rich at any time or another time come back to the down. Therefore, to become a good investor, you must have full knowledge of stocks and its world. Here are some essential steps are given below that will help you to invest better in a right company.

Select place to start

There is a simple saying that the beginning is right then everything is right. Therefore, always invest in a company that is familiar with you. You should complete knowledge of its background, management and how those companies planned to make money in share market of India. If you are satisfied with all these things then this is your first step to start.

Do not go for cheap, choose the right one – whether it is expensive
There is the big misconception in people that cheaper is always good. They do not see the reasons for its cheapness. Sometimes it may happen that the stock is cheap because its business is growing is slow or very less. Sometimes it can happen that the stock is expensive because in the next few years it is expected to grow faster. That’s why, instead of cheap, you should buy those stocks, which are likely to have higher prices in future to gain more profit, whether it is expensive.

Find revenue growth

This one is your third step, where you need to see the company’s revenue growth. Sometimes, it can happen, when companies earn more money in the long run. Therefore, stock prices increase, which generally starts with rising revenues; you will see analyst’s revenues in the form of “top line”.

Look for profit margin or bottom line

The bottom line refers to company’s net income or earnings per share (EPS). In reference to “bottom”, describes the net income figure on company’s income statement. The company’s profits margin is the main difference between revenue and expenditure. A company that increases the revenue while controlling costs will probably extend the margin.

Find out how much debt the company has

One of the most important works before investment that is check the balance sheet of the company. As always has said that the company’s debt is more likely to be more volatile because the higher income of the company goes into interest and loan payments. By comparing the company with their peers, see if the company is borrowing an unusual amount for its figure and industry.

Discover a dividend

A dividend is not just a source of cash payment for a stock investor or this regular income; it is just a sign of a good financial health of the company. If a company is able to pays dividends, then here you need to see their all payments history and find out if the company is raising the dividend or not?

The Role of Foreign Investment in Tourism Development

The decision to invest is one of the most difficult economic decisions and the most dangerous, because it is associated with many factors and variables, which are often difficult to predict their behavior and trends of development.

Foreign investment is the vital and effective element to achieve economic and social development, as any initial increase in investment will lead to double and cumulative increases in the interior through the so-called investment multiplier, and an increase in income must go part of it to increase investment through the so-called accelerator.

The investment has received great attention in the literature of economic development because it is one of the factors affecting the national product, which in turn stimulates demand for production goods, as well as the fluctuations in investment affect income and employment.

The field of investment represents the type or nature of the activity in which the investor wishes to invest his money in order to obtain a return, in other words, the entity or space in which the investor intends to invest his money. When we say domestic and foreign investments we mean investment, while when we say real estate or securities, we define the tool used.

In short, when we talk about the field of investment, we mean a certain economic sector, while we mean the investment tool when we talk about the origin of financial assets or real.

It seems that the investment goes naturally towards countries whose currency is strong and at a constant high or at least does not fall in the near term and not the countries that suffer from rapid inflation and the collapse of the currency, but this rule is not fixed all the circumstances and in all places. It is enough that the investor enter his money in the currency of that country (ie, the country with a strong currency) and recover it after a period to find that the value of his money has increased, except for the profit that came during those cities if he was a citizen of those countries that melt their currency and rise in inflation rates.

In most cases, investment in tourism and travel depends on the same business principles as in the rest of the economic sectors. But in some cases investment in the tourism sector is made for non-commercial reasons as in the following cases:

1. Many countries invest in the tourism industry for social and environmental reasons rather than purely commercial goals.

2. In many cases, institutions such as banks invest in the tourism sector for non-commercial purposes, but more importantly, the substantial growth in the capital value of the property compares with those assets whose value declines over time.

Some investments are made for lifestyle reasons. Some people buy yachts, a leisure farm, horseback riding, leisure centers and commensurate with their lifestyle for individual or social reasons.

Bitcoin Thrives Against All Odds

Since it’s currently en vogue right now, I’d like to announce that I’m launching my own cryptocurrency next week.

Let’s call it “kingcoin.”

Nah, that’s too self-serving.

How about “muttcoin”? I’ve always had a soft spot for mixed breeds.

Yeah, that’s perfect – everybody loves dogs.

This is going to be the biggest thing since fidget spinners.

Congrats! Everyone reading this is going to receive one muttcoin when my new coin launches next week.

I’m going to evenly distribute 1 million muttcoins. Feel free to spend them wherever you like (or wherever anyone will accept them!).

What’s that? The cashier at Target said they wouldn’t accept our muttcoin?

Tell those doubters that muttcoin has scarcity value – there will only ever be 1 million muttcoins in existence. On top of that, it’s backed by the full faith and credit of my desktop computer’s 8 GB of RAM.

Also, remind them that a decade ago, a bitcoin couldn’t even buy you a pack of chewing gum. Now one bitcoin can buy a lifetime supply.

And, like bitcoin, you can store muttcoin safely offline away from hackers and thieves.

It’s basically an exact replica of bitcoin’s properties. Muttcoin has a decentralized ledger with impossible-to-crack cryptography, and all transactions are immutable.

Still not convinced our muttcoins will be worth billions in the future?

Well, it’s understandable. The fact is, launching a new cryptocurrency is much harder than it appears, if not downright impossible.

That’s why I believe bitcoin has reached these heights against all odds. And because of its unique user network, it will continue to do so.

Sure, there have been setbacks. But each of these setbacks has eventually resulted in higher prices. The recent 60% plunge will be no different.

The Miracle of Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s success rests in its ability to create a global network of users who are either willing to transact with it now or store it for later. Future prices will be determined by the pace that the network grows.

Even in the face of wild price swings, bitcoin adoption continues to grow at an exponential rate. There are now 23 million wallets open globally, chasing 21 million bitcoins. In a few years, the number of wallets can rise to include the 5 billion people on the planet connected to the internet.

Sometimes the new crypto converts’ motivation was speculative; other times they were seeking a store of value away from their own domestic currency. In the last year, new applications such as Coinbase have made it even easier to onboard new users.

If you haven’t noticed, when people buy bitcoin, they talk about it. We all have that friend who bought bitcoin and then wouldn’t shut up about it. Yes, I’m guilty of this – and I’m sure quite a few readers are too.

Perhaps subconsciously, holders become crypto-evangelists since convincing others to buy serves their own self-interest of increasing the value of their holdings.

Bitcoin evangelizing – spreading the good word – is what miraculously led to a price ascent from $0.001 to a recent price of $10,000.

Who could have imagined that its pseudonymous creator, fed up with the global banking oligopoly, launched an intangible digital resource that rivaled the value of the world’s largest currencies in less than a decade?

No religion, political movement or technology has ever witnessed these growth rates. Then again, humanity has never been as connected.

The Idea of Money

Bitcoin started as an idea. To be clear, all money – whether it’s shell money used by primitive islanders, a bar of gold or a U.S. dollar – started as an idea. It’s the idea that a network of users value it equally and would be willing to part with something of equal value for your form of money.

Money has no intrinsic value; its value is purely extrinsic – only what others think it’s worth.

Take a look at the dollar in your pocket – it’s just a fancy piece of paper with a one-eyed pyramid, a stipple portrait and signatures of important people.

In order to be useful, society must view it as a unit of account, and merchants must be willing to accept it as payment for goods and services.

Bitcoin has demonstrated an uncanny ability to reach and connect a network of millions of users.

One bitcoin is only worth what the next person is willing pay for it. But if the network continues to expand at an exponential rate, the limited supply argues that prices can only move in one direction… higher.

The Bottom Line

Bitcoin’s nine-year ascent has been marked with enormous bouts of volatility. Therewas an 85% correction in January 2015, and a few others over 60%, including a colossal 93% drawdown in 2011.

Through each of these corrections, however, the network (as measured by number of wallets) continued to expand at a rapid pace. As some speculators saw their value decimated, new investors on the margin saw value and became buyers.