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Pensions Begin Disappearing from Japanese Investment Advisory

In a country where pensioners will need all the help they can get, hedge fund manager AIJ Investment Advisors operations have been suspended over regulator concerns that the company has lost enormous amounts in pension savings. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Japan, the country with the world’s fastest growing aging population could be in major trouble as two decades of slumped markets, the effects of a massive tsunami, and pension losses have [...]

Regardless if people want to look at the whole picture or not is up to them.

by TerryC.

The nation continues to borrow to refinance its past debt and finance its current deficit spending.

Tax revenue generated is down do to many reasons such as unemployment and lackluster spending.For this reason alone High deficits will continue.

Home sales are down and many foreclosures are in the works.

Monetizing the debt has created a trigger for high inflation and has debased the dollar.

Banks are over leveraged do to foreclosures and [...]

Investment Fraud: What you need to know about thieves & crooks

Investment fraud is as old as the concept of investment itself, but with the availability of exciting new investment fields, such as online forex trading to ordinary traders with moderate net worth, it is becoming ever more of a pandemic in the financial world, in spite of all the best efforts of regulators and the business itself to curb it. For us, traders, nothing less than survival is at [...]