Insurance companies invest in bond markets, stock markets as well as alternative assets like real estate and mortgage-backed securities.
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Master limited partnerships, like real estate investment trusts, avoid corporate taxes by distributing most of their earnings as dividends to investors.
Much of the investments are in energy, advanced manufacturing and technology, as well as entertainment, hospitality and safe-haven assets like real estate.
Much like real estate, your success can depend on location, location, location.
The emerging Sinosphere is also likely to be somewhat less focused on manufacturing and more on services like real estate, finance and high-technology exports.
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Like real estate investment trusts, MLPs themselves pay no taxes, so they have more to share with investors, and their payouts to shareholders are more lightly taxed.
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Eventually Dolan started an electronic system to deliver information to financial institutions and credit agencies that needed up-to-the-minute data on things like real estate liens and foreclosures.
Moreover, the strong Brazilian currency trend means that Brazilians can spend less of their own hard earned money, the real, to acquire weak dollar assets like real estate.
He understands that smart business owners are right now hedging their bets against the value of our currency and diversifying some of their investments into hard assets, like real estate and gold.
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The first is diversifying between asset classes, which means having a mix of stocks, bonds, cash, and perhaps some alternative investments like real estate and commodities that matches your goals and tolerance for risk.
One way to protect yourself from that is to further diversify a part of your portfolio into foreign stocks and bonds and perhaps alternative investments like real estate and commodities that tend to do well in inflation.
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Shopping centers, which play host to day-to-day necessities--drugstores, hair salons, laundries--are down 0.5%. (The big malls, owned by powerful players like real estate investment trusts, are finding meager advances in same-store sales at their department stores and boutiques.) Warehouses, their growth pace off only half a point to 4%, are still much in demand.
Celebrity real estate, like regular real estate, usually hits the market in the aftermath of divorce proceedings.
The venture has amassed the loan portfolio of bankrupt Residential Capital, acquired realty firms like Prudential Real Estate and Real Living Real Estate, and bought out several construction companies like brick maker Jenkins Brick.
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Athletes are like real-estate value is largely determined through a valuation of comparable commodities.
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Baseball is becoming one of those things that only adults enjoy, like real-estate ads and Leonard Cohen.
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Still, he does think tech is starting to look a lot like Dallas real estate a decade ago.
Legacy assets are things like illiquid real estate, rare artwork or family business interests that may not provide current earnings.
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In some cases it is triggered by a big income event like selling real estate or a business, taking a company public or winning a legal settlement.
Just like in real estate, location matters.
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This time around with debt markets collapsing and private real estate ever more dependent on large amounts of debt to maintain normal equity rates of return, it looks like private real estate values are in for a tumble.
It is like buying real estate.
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And if you become something like a real estate inspector or building inspector, or even if you have a job as a - commercial fisherman is a job that is not closed to black people, and you could start making good money as a commercial fisherman.
Enterprise Products (nyse: EPD - news - people) is a master limited partnership, a specialized investment vehicle somewhat like a real estate investment trust, which is exempt from corporate income taxes as long as it pays out almost all of its profits to investors.
Google Chief Economist Hal Varian has shown that search can act as a proxy for purchasing intent in markets like autos and real estate.
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