Partnerships are highly tax-advantaged securities, but these advantages can easily become disadvantages if investors don’t understand the basics of MLP taxation.
You needn’t be an alchemist to turn trash into profits.
Cash-conscious consumers and lenders may be pulling back, but the Federal Reserve is pulling out all the stops to improve liquidity, stimulate lending and stabilize the roiling financial markets.
Government bailout money aside, a stabilized housing market is essential to any turnaround in the financial sector and broader economy. We examine the prospects for such a recovery.
Uncle Sam, Inc. has pledged hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to stabilize the ailing financial sector. We look at the bank preferreds that will put some of this cash back in your hands.
Following the lessons of his mentor and eventual business partner Ben Graham, a professor at Columbia University and author of the seminal text Securities Analysis, Warren Buffett brought so-called value investing to the fore of the public consciousness as his astute investments brought him considerable fame and fortune.
If the painful fallout from the interrelated housing, mortgage and credit crises has forced the average American to excavate and come to terms economic trends and issues that had long percolated below the surface, this rude awakening has also introduced a number of slippery terms and concepts to the general lexicon.
The fallout from the housing, mortgage and credit crises has raised the public’s awareness of credit default swaps (CDS), adding yet another acronym to the list of all-too-real abstractions that threaten our nation’s financial health.
Financial crises are typically marked by consolidation and regulatory actions intended to alleviate the severity of the economic contraction; needless to say, these forces produce massive changes in the industry’s dynamics and shape the competitive landscape in a post-bust world.
A few weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled a roadmap for transitioning away from the parochial system of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in favor of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a system instituted by almost 100 countries worldwide.
