Pension and Investment Management for Retirement, July 2009

The Economics of Private Banking

The Magic Money Machine (Retirement Investing)

Nigerian Pension Fund Administration Sector with Chibuzo Ivenso

Apart-hotel rooms flying in Frankfurt
The city of Frankfurt is more than 2000 years old and home to more than 3000 branches of foreign companies and 600 banks. It boasts the continent??"s largest airport and European road and rail junction and attracts visitors from all over the world, offering 170 hotels containing approx. 24,000 beds. The hotel room industry here is hugely successful, enjoying over 80 percent average annual occupancy and is the main reason why buy to let investors are turning their attention towards apart-hotels and this busy metropolis.

SIPP Investors taking control of their pensions
One of the main reasons for an investor choosing a self invested personal pension (Sipp) is because they can actively manage how their pension is invested.

Go it Alone With a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP)
If you find it unnecessarily restricting to be tied in to a pension company's choice of investments, you might find the flexibility and freedom of a Self-Invested Personal Pension (a SIPP, as it's usually known) attractive The term is entirely self-explanatory in so far as you remain completely at the helm of every investment decision for your pension fund and still enjoy the income tax relief that is granted to all pension plans - that is to say, any money you are investing is invested before the deduction of tax, so that if you would otherwise have paid the basic rate of 20% tax, every ?100 investment is effectively made for ?80

Senator Katherine Laforge & President Elect Obama Share a Concern for Energy Dependence
President Elect Barack Obama's program, "New Energy for America", is reminiscent of the "Energy Self Sufficiency" plan offered by Senator Katherine Laforge's in her 2004 presidential campaign chronicled in the book "Hulagu's Web – The Presidential Pursuit of Senator Katherine Laforge."

What is Meant by Pension Drawdown?
Some pension schemes - notably self-invested personal pensions, executive pension plans and small self-administered pension schemes - allow a contributing member aged between 50 and 75 to leave their pension savings invested in the fund and to take out a regular income rather than buy an annuity This is known as pension drawdown or pension income drawdown The advantages The main reasons for taking a pension drawdown are twofold: if annuity rates are low, then the fund-holder can delay buying an annuity, since the older you are when making that purchase the more attractive a rate of return will be offered; and, if the pension investments remaining in the fund are performing well and are expected to continue to so into the future, then the ...