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The two most frequently asked questions by investors are: 1. What investment should I buy? 2. Is now the right time to buy it? Most people want to know how to spot the right investment at the right time, because they believe that is the key to successful investing. Let me tell you that is far from the truth: even if you could get the answers to those questions right, you would only have a 50% chance to make your investment successful. When we are looking at any particular investment, we can’t simply look at the charts or research reports to decide what to invest and when to invest, we need to look at ourselves and find out what works for us as an individual.

Today’s economic situation creates ideal opportunities for angel investors and venture capitalists. It was reported that the world’s economy today may appear to be improving statistically but many believe that the global economic conditions are only getting worse.

The Brisbane retail market has generally remained positive despite the global credit crisis, with the market expected to continue to recover into 2011, with 5.80% growth predicted. Mid-range sub-regional and neighbourhood shopping centres have seen positive market results in particular, and sales of larger retail assets are expected to increase as investors re-visit their overall investment strategies and attempt to position themselves for the next cycle.

News reports this week contained good and bad news for certain people in the technology, business, economy, trade, and entertainment industries or sectors around the world.

I am going to discuss an interesting way to look at real estate investing that may be a bit unconventional to most property investors. What I have done is, go back to look at some of the tenets of real estate investment that we have taken for granted without examining the opposite arguments, then see if we can learn something from it, and more importantly see if we can discover investment opportunities most people miss because they fail to see the other side of the story. I found the most common opinion about real estate investing is: Land goes up in value because of its limited supply so buy properties where land is of limited supply! If you look at the property performance in Australia since 1996, good quality established suburbs all share this land scarcity factor, they all perform very well according to this tenet. For example, while building cost is increasing 3-4% a year tracking CPI, the land value has increased as much as 12-14% a year, which averages out a 10% growth for a property over the last 15 years.

As the year comes to an end many business owners will be taking the time over the holidays to review their goals and to adjust their marketing strategy for 2010. With that in mind, here are our top 10 online marketing predictions for 2010…

New policy of the trade white paper in the UK is greatly welcomed by the British Prime Minister and is said be helpful in the recovery of the UK’s economy. This article discusses some aspects of trade white paper.

New policy of the trade white paper in the UK is greatly welcomed by the British Prime Minister and is said be helpful in the recovery of the UK’s economy. This article discusses some aspects of trade white paper.

The recent budget announcement has got people talking. As with most Government announcements there are always polarised opinions with regards to the issues that have, or have not, been addressed. With the latest announcement it would seem that the Rudd government has responded to the global financial crisis by restructuring the budget to focus new stimulus spending around infrastructure construction, job protection and pensions funded by cuts to middle-class welfare. Many of these spending cuts however will not be fully impacted until the economy begins to recover. Below we have summarised some of the most important changes in the 2009 Budget that may affect you.

You may have noticed that the New Zealand dollar has been particularly strong lately – currently sitting just below its all time highs at around US$0.82. The NZD has averaged at US$0.60 ever since floating in March 1985; therefore it is approximately 36% above that historic average.