Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Dynamic Wealth Management Efficient Market Theory

Dynamic Wealth Management: A branch of economic thought known as 'efficient market theory' hypothesizes that the stock market is almost perfectly efficient in the sense that asset values are almost perfectly priced when factoring in all known information. Taking this theory to the extreme would mean that a monkey randomly choosing stocks would do no better or worse on average than a Wall Street guru.

Many people subscribe to this theory. Their main reasoning is that there are so many knowledgeable people that actively invest in stocks (think head fund managers, mutual fund managers, private equity guys, etc.) that all stocks are accurately valued. The only way to make more money in the stock market, or any aasset class for that matter, is to take on more risk. Otherwise, it's futile to attempt to try to pick stocks since you won't find any good deals (other people would have already found them and bid up the stock's price).
People who believe in this theory generally just invest in broad, index funds with low expense fees. They attempt to diversify to mitigate risk (hence the appeal of ETFs or index funds) and also attempt to lower transaction costs (again, the appeal of ETFs). By investing in ETFs and index fund, they also can just park their money in the long-run, which will limit their tax liability.
The market does a pretty good job at accurately pricing stocks, and on the whole, most investors probably can't beat a random monkey choosing stocks. But efficient market theory can't explain why some investors consistently beat the market, such as legendary investors like Warren Buffet and George Soros. It is also stretch to think the daily gyrations of the stock market are completely rational.
It is also difficult to explain the tech boom of 95-99 and subsequent crash in 2000-2002 through efficient market theory, since this was a pretty clear episode of excessive investor exuberance for tech stocks.
Also, while there is a lot of .smart money. in the market, this 'smart money' is often handicapped by large asset bases. Most of the best investors have asset bases of $250 million+ to deal with, so they cannot put much of their funds into the stocks that they necessarily think are the best buys.
For example, if a hedge fund manager who manages $500 million thinks a company with a market capitalization of $500 million is a great buy, he cannot put much of his asset base in their physically. If he invested all of it, he would have bought the company! That, plus with a sizeable infusion of money would have bid the stock.s price up way past its value.
Furthermore, as much smart money is out there, there is also a lot of dumb money too. Plenty of people don't know what they.re doing, and they trade based on emotion, leading to bad investment decisions. It is for these reasons that while efficient market theory has its merits, it's a huge stretch to believe that today's financial markets are almost completely efficient.
Dynamic Wealth Management: Investing in your priorities
A socially responsible strategy allows individuals to invest in a way that is consistent with their own priorities. As indicated by performance in recent years, choosing to invest in this manner does not mean sacrificing potential return. However, not all investments will perform in the same way.
If this method of investing interests you, work with your Dynamic Wealth Management financial advisor to learn more about how SRI options can work in conjunction with your overall investment strategy. There are a number of mutual funds to choose from that can be incorporated into an existing or proposed asset allocation strategy. Alternatively, you can select specific investments that fit more particular criteria or apply your own social screens to your managed portfolio. Be sure to consider how any investment you choose matches your risk profile and your return expectations.
The most effective approach to socially responsible investing is to make sure that the execution of the strategy is consistent with your overall financial plan. Your DWM financial advisor can help you review your current asset allocation and help you consider whether social investing is right for you

Here at Dynamic Wealth Management we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.


Friday, September 24, 2010

Wealth Management And Wealth Attraction

When talking about possession, a person unconsciously refers to wealth. But depending upon its use, wealth can be defined in different ways. Basically, it can be classified into financial and non-financial.

Financial Wealth

In the economic world, wealth is defined owning items which have economic values. Example of having financial wealth is the accumulation of things like real estate, money and jewelries. There are reasons why people try to have financial wealth. The most common reason is security.

People with financial wealth also believe that having them brings power, respect and recognition. Depending on where you live, the amount of financial wealth you have accumulated will be relative. Wealthy individuals living in third world countries would be considered average in countries like the United Kingdom and United States.

Non-financial Wealth

While other people are occupied with the accumulation of material wealth, other people believe that true wealth is not something that has economic value. Faith, love and peace of mind are just some of the examples of non-financial wealth that some people strive hard to have in their life. The reasoning behind is simple. Even with all the material wealth in the world, a person would never feel truly complete or secured without non-financial wealth.

In recent years, society has finally looked at non-financial wealth as equally important as financial wealth. Ironically, some people need to spend money just to obtain non-financial wealth. They enroll in yoga or meditation classes to have peace of mind, donate huge amounts of money to participate in religious activities and even buy their loved ones expensive gifts to show their love and appreciation.

It is therefore obvious that people have integrated these two types of wealth to define the true meaning of the word. To achieve or create financial and non-financial wealth, here are some of the most common practices.

To achieve financial wealth, you can harvest natural resources and/or develop or change a material thing thru skills and knowledge application. Another way to create wealth is by improving methods in production, effectively creating wealth faster. You can decide to set a limit to your accumulation of financial wealth depending on your need for security. On the other hand, non-financial wealth can be achieved or created by analyzing your needs and priorities.

You can only achieve peace of mind if you know what you want in life. Since non-financial wealth is not quantifiable, it is difficult to realize whether or not you have enough of it in your life.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

How to Find the Right Passive Income Opportunity For You

Never limit yourself to thinking that the only way you can make money is from trading your hours for dollars.

Why not have your money earn you money? Better yet, why not have money deposited into your bank account from work you previously completed?

Limiting yourself to one type of income is a very risky way to make a living. The purpose of this post is to explain the three types of incomes and advantages and disadvantages of each.

Earned Income - The most common type of income that you're familiar with would be earned. Simply put, earned is trading dollars for hours.

Earned is very easy to obtain, but very easy to lose. If you get fired, you lose your income.

Passive Income - My favorite type of income is passive. Passive income is income received from work you have previously done.

Examples include

  • Owning rental properties
  • Types of online businesses that need little or no direct involvement
  • Royalties from publishing books or music

Earning 100% of your income from passive sources takes a little more creativity but can easily be done, especially with the Internet. There are a many ways in which you can start earning passive income online very quickly. Examples include writing an e-Book to creating an online video.

Portfolio Income - If you have a savings account, you have received portfolio income. Portfolio income is income derived from paper assets like stocks, bonds, money market accounts, savings accounts...etc

There are three types of portfolio income.

  • Capital Gains - Income from the sale of a paper asset
  • Dividends - Income from earnings passed down to shareholders
  • Interest - Income from investments such as savings, checking, CD's, money market accounts, and bonds

One disadvantage of portfolio income is that you need to invest a lot to earn a lot. Therefore, it's not until later in your life that you can live solely off of your portfolio income.

The typical path to riches today is to accumulate as much money as possible and build a portfolio of stocks and bonds. Once you no longer want to exchange your hours for a salary, you begin to live off your portfolio.

This way of building wealth is pretty simple, but it's risky. As we have seen in 2008 & 2009, investments are bit very stable and jobs can disapear fast.

An important theory to managing assets, that is commonly associated with investing in the stock market, is diversification. Diversification is the opposite of putting all your eggs into one basket; instead you put many eggs into many baskets.

Diversification is not just important to managing a stock portfolio; it's also a good practice to diversify your income. If one source of income gets turned off, you have another one to replace it.

The Key To Diversification Of Income Since you're trading dollars for hours, there is a limited amount of diversification you can achieve through earned income. I.E., you can't have three full time jobs.

It's easy to diversify your portfolio income through index funds. However, you have no control over performance of each individual fund. One option are fixed investments like CD's, but it takes a lot of money upfront if you wanted interest from a CD to provide enough income for you to live off. Plus, you also face reinvestment risk if interest rates were go down.

Out of each type of income, passive income is the income you have most control over. Plus, you can have as many sources of passive income as you like. Which makes it the safest and most sustainable type of income you can have.

If you start learning how to turn earned income into passive income, financial freedom and abundance isn't far away.

RJ Weiss purpose in life is to educate all of Gen Y on the basics of personal financial planning. He currently maintains the blog Gen Y Wealth, where can find articles such as his Empire Builder Kit review.

3 Main Reasons Why Most People Are Poor

This is now the formal start of my financial planning guide lessons. Since in our previous series of steps (for those who are new in my blog please click here and follow each step) we already talked about the necessary steps to take before actually planning your financial life.

You already have a dream life, a financial goal, and now it is time for the "apply lessons-fail-plan again-repeat until successful" part of financial planning.

Now let's talk about the three most common reasons why many people are poor.

1. Because most people do not really want to be rich.

Yup, you heard me right! We really do not want to be rich. I know many of you would react and say, "I have never heard a person say that he does not want to be rich". In fact if I ask you right now if you want to be financial free and be wealthy?

The common answer would be - OF COURSE!

Yet, I've crossed many people in my life that only say that they want to be rich yet their actions do not walk their talk. Some even pray to God like this - "Lord make me rich and wealthy but not too much, I do not want to be bad."

It is this sick idea that when a person is rich, we are far from God's love. Maybe we have forgotten that many prophets in the old testament like Elijah, King Samuel and David were all very wealthy people yet they were very close to God.

I think many people view it this way because it was shaped by our culture this way. Today more and more media influences people in Sydney (for example) that romanticizing wealth is a sad thing. Many people even baffle the words like "I'd rather be happy than be rich" which is a good example of romanticizing poverty. In my life, I have always seen this as a wrong belief about wealth for whenever I had no money to buy my needs I could not sleep at night.

So I ask myself, how in the world can other people say that being poor makes us happier? Not being able to sleep at night is depressing enough. Say this to yourself now - "I am rich because I know God loves me and he wants to prosper all the works of my hands, even my money".

2. Most people are poor because they are Financially Stupid.

Obviously many fail in their financial planning because they do not understand how money really works. They do not even understand the meaning of good debt and bad debt, so they just go around the mall wide sales and squander all their hard earned money to buy liabilities. (In our future financial planning guide lessons, I will go into the details of good debt, bad debt, assets and liabilities)

Much worse, when they do not have enough money to buy what they want, they used their credit cards and incur debt that they cannot pay at the end of their cut off. Hence, once they receive their credit card bill, they can only pay the highlighted box "minimum amount due", making them pay more and more due to high interest rates that credit cards offer.

Hey I don't blame you, there are even well known surgeons who can operate your brain but are also financially stupid. Engineers can create skyscrapers and compute all the necessary tensions needed to make these skyscrapers stable yet they too can be financially stupid as well.

Here's the key if by now you are already aware that you are also financially stupid, then directly learn to change your financial life. Go and burn the lines and ask people, call a financial adviser, read a book about basic good money habits, or better, follow my financial planning guide lessons (they are for FREE by the way) and apply all the lessons you learn here.

The important thing is to take action and commit to change your bad money habits. Focus on your dream life and set goals short term and long term.

3. Many are poor because we do not ride vehicles to wealth.

Have you ever tried comparing your travel time from using different modes of transportation to your office? Like what the difference would be if you walk to your office, ride a bike, ride a cab, use your own car, or ride the train? Obviously among the transportation mentioned above, the train is the fastest and just like in our financial life we too must ride vehicles.

Most people are so dependent to the government that they are not even walking towards wealth. I'd rather compare walking to saving money in the bank without withdrawing it for at least 25 years. However, walking alone will not get us to our destination. We must include in our financial planning the real vehicles to wealth like the mutual funds, paper assets, stocks, real estate, the internet, and other businesses.

Riding vehicles to wealth is the only way to attain financial abundance and without these vehicles, wealth will always be far fetched. Imagine if you can use an airplane as your vehicle to wealth. Or a jet plane to ride. Doesn't that sound exciting? Ride your vehicles now and reaching your financial goal will be a lot easier.

To our financial freedom...

Cheers!

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5 Basic Principles to Financial Success

I remember listening to the Chairman of a leading stock brokerage firm in the country share his experiences in business. He taught 5 basic principles in order to succeed:

1. You should have a purpose in life.

If you want to be be the best waiter, driver, writer, singer, or whatever you want to be, write it down. Write down your goals for a clear purpose.

Later, I found out that what he said was in accordance with the Bible. Habakkuk 2:2 says, "Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time..."

2. Building business is all about long-term relationships.

Spend time with your:

a. People - The more people you train, the more they can help you build business.
b. Suppliers - You need their support to be able to continue with your business in times of need.
c. Customers - When you have good relationship with your customers and they are happy with the way you conduct your business, you will win their loyalty.

3. You need integrity.

If you promise something, you better deliver. You may have great relationships, but if people don't trust you, you may end up losing your business.

4. Evolve.

What is the latest trend? Always look for opportunities and see if you can participate. Without evolving, you will not grow your business.

5. Financial literacy.

If you don't know how to consciously save and where to invest in, especially at a very early age, even if you make a lot of money, you could also go bankrupt. If your pension is being managed by unscrupulous fund managers, the more your efforts would be in vain. You have to learn how to make sound judgments about the use of your money yourself.

Out of the five tips mentioned, I believe that the fifth is the most crucial for us Filipinos. Why?

According to the Fin-Q survey of Citibank, "The average Filipino has a financial IQ of 47.8, less than half the maximum score of 100." We do not need financial education if we plan to work hard for money our entire life. But if we want to become financially successful, financial education is very important. Most people want financial success, but it's interesting to find that most are also unwilling to invest time for their financial education. We could be well-educated or an expert in our field - a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, a manager, an executive, a business owner, or an OFW, but we could also be financially illiterate.

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How to Be a Billionaire - Financial Freedom

6 Steps to becoming a Billionaire and achieving Financial Freedom

Step 1: Billionaires are Confident

Billionaires are confident people who know they can have whatever they want by focusing on it and taking deliberate action. They are visionary thinkers. Billionaires see opportunity where the average person only sees obstacles. They take calculated risk after doing research and planning. Billionaires approach potential business opportunities and ask " How much will I make?", while the average person ask "How much will this cost me?".

Start developing your Billionaire mindset today and your guaranteed to have a richer tomorrow. Reading Napoleon Hill's legendary classic, "Think and Grow Rich", is a great place to start.

Step 2: Billionaires Practice Money Management

Billionaires may have tons of money, but that does not mean they throw money away. If you want get rich you must keep track of your bottom line, even if it's just a few dollars. Start tracking your monthly spending and eliminate any unnecessary items. Avoid using high interest credit cards as much as possible. Billionaires love getting more for less, and so should you. Bargain shopping is trendy these days, so don't be ashamed to buy your designer jeans at a discount store. Also, plan ahead for major purchases to make sure your getting the best price.

Step 3: Billionaires are Generous

One of the biggest secrets of the rich is generosity. The super rich know that if they serve more people they will increase their wealth. Start looking for ways to serve more people by solving their problems. If you want to grow rich you must become a generous person and seek out opportunities to solve millions of peoples common everyday obstacles. Problems are everywhere, pick one you know a lot about, solve it and get rich.

Step 4: Billionaires Buy Lots of Assets

Billionaires love to buy assets. They fill their expensive homes and office buildings with items that will appreciate in value overtime, not decrease. They also invest in businesses and real estate. They crave multiple streams of passive income and you must do the same. If your strapped for cash and investing in a traditional business is not realistic today, then join a good network marketing company or start a home based business. Many of today's super rich got started by building a business out of their homes part-time. It's fine to start small, just do something everyday to build your portfolio of cash flow assets.

Step 5: Billionaires are Disciplined and Patient

Billionaires understand that the key to great wealth is in long-term results. They are not interested in short-term instant gratification. Billionaires build businesses to last for generations to come. If your looking for "get rich quick" gimmicks to make money you are setting yourself up for failure. Whether you start a business from scratch or leverage others ideas through an affiliate marketing program, you must think long-term growth and success. Spend some time organizing your marketing plan and set smaller goals in the beginning. After a year or more, those small achievements will turn into big future profits.

Step 6: Billionaires Associate with Winners

Billionaires do not hang out with broke people. They are always seeking out advice and guidance from other successful people. If your goal is to become super rich you must upgrade your network to include people who already have what you want. Look for mentors who will show you the ropes and open doors of opportunity for you. And whatever you do, never tell your not so successful associates about your Billionaire dreams. Unfortunately, you may find that they are not as happy about your ambitions as you are.

In the information age the rules of money have changed dramatically. The old days of getting a good job, a 401K plan, and living frugally do not guarantee financial freedom anymore. Today you must become a visionary person and open your mind to new ideas and possibilities.

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Money Making Secrets - You Need to Be Rolling in Money and Be on Top of Things!

It is good to become aware of something you do not know about previously. Getting wise to a secret is moving ahead of your follows who do not know the secret. When I discovered that self-employment which I desired from my days at the university is not a sure way to real wealth, I made up my mind to develop a business which is a means I can use to make money. You too can make money with my secret.

This decision came as a result of my capability to read different books on wealth and success. I realized that starting up and owning a business is different from being self-employed and practically running the business.

The money one make in business is a passive income. In other words, business is an act of owning a system that has real and independent existence which produces a passive income for the owner. It is the best of all income classes in view of the fact that one does not need to run it by oneself to earn the kind of money one need.Own a company and let it run itself as you make your money.

Progressive advance from a lower to a higher or more complex form of transformation is a life worth-living. The act of giving up substance or goods to another for valuable consideration which may be money, dealing in articles for sale or offering quality services on a regular basis is necessary to stay in business. The set of cognitive skills applied in the business sphere of activity or interest are name of the game to successful own an entity that produces passive income for the owner which pave the way to a future of wealth and success.

There are set of skills or processes characterized by the power to set your brain to work, which you must apply to establish the foundation for your success. You can start by developing a financial plan and being enterprising, later become an entrepreneur but you must be able to walk away from your economic venture and still have it making money for you.Your state of good fortune and especially of financial success depend on how well you make money from your business.

Get financial advice and build a foundation for your money robot! Let your business create and keep a client, let your company be very systematic and integrated in such a way that, it does what ought to be done and be debt-free. Let your establishment give the most and best product at the lowest possible price,offer good services to many that patronizes or uses the services and offer better products to the markets.

Invest money to increase your assets and equity. Put money to work for you. Increase the return on equity of your business and be a good equitable owner. Raise your equity capital, increase your equity position and increase your financial power as you make money from your business.

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6 Proven Wealth Building Strategies

Wealth building strategies abound so it is important that you choose one or few that will agree with your financial reality. Your financial reality may not be what you really wish for but it will be more difficult for you to grow, financially, if you aren't disciplined enough to checkmate certain excesses.

These six wealth building strategies discussed below are to help you remain focused, determined and look forward to the place you ought to be in the nearest future.

1. You have to device ways of paying yourself first. This is the first rule most of the wealth building strategies. This payment to yourself might simply be inform of setting aside reasonable percentage of your income to 401[k] or 403 [b], if your employer provides them.

Enroll today and make sure you invest reasonable on a consistent basis. You can also set aside some money for yourself before paying the bills. It has been noted that the people who aren't earning much, find it harder to save after paying their bills.

So you can adjust and save up first and squeeze the remaining in bills settlement. You will be surprised at how effective this option will be.

2. You do not have any wealth building strategies if you aren't saving. Start saving now if you want to have more in the future. The best time to have started saving was 20 years ago, another better time to start saving is right now.

3. If you are indebted to lender or financial institution, you are advised to pay off your debts so that you can get better deals from other lenders. If you are hoping of getting some juicy deals to help you invest while you work towards retirement, it may not materialize is your credit rating isn't high enough.

You would expect to get any approval for an investment that will be above 14% if that is what your credit rating is. The importance of trying to boost your credit rating can't be overemphasized.

4. One of the wealth building strategies many people don't take advantage of is the flexibilities that are offered by different mortgage packages.

If for example, you intend to hold your mortgage for a brief period, you can settle for rates that are adjustable so that you can be able to enjoy lower interest rates while you pay off your mortgage and have such home quickly refinanced in any situation of rates increase.

Note that fixed mortgage rates are usually higher than adjustable rates. Check through the offerings of your lender before making your choice.

5. If you have been reading some wealth building strategies guide books, you will notice that almost all of them preach the need for setting aside emergency funds.

Life is filled with uncertainties and it is always better to have an amount that equals six months of your income in this account so that you can live on it in case any unforeseen eventuality.

6. Your wealth building strategies wouldn't be complete without adequate insurance.

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