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This is How You Protect Your Cash Savings from this Currency Crisis
September 15, 2011 - 14:59 — Van BeekInternational diversification to protect your savings against a currency crisis.
Between September the previous year and June this year, Pedro had lost 74% of his savings measured in dollars. He was holding the savings of his family in cash. Stock markets were falling all over the world. Inflation was shooting up and live was becoming much more expensive every day. It was crisis.
Why would Germany bail out investors in Greek debt? To save the Euro?
April 28, 2010 - 15:12 — Van BeekTwo issues that are raised in the discussions around the enormous Greek debt have surprised me. Let’s have a look at them and I am curious to hear what you think of them.
When we follow the news, we come across the following topics:
• Germany will or will not bail out Greece
• The Euro drops to the lowest rate in a year compared to the dollar
Let’s have a look at this Germany bailing out Greece and what the Euro has to do with it.
8 ways to spread the risk in your stock market investment
October 27, 2009 - 08:32 — Van Beek- Stretch your new investments in the stock market out in time, over a number of months.
- Split the investments that you plan to make during a month in two or more batches and execute these trades at different dates during the month.
- Spread out the selling of your stock market investments over a certain time period. Note that in general I prefer to get “out” more quickly than that I get “in”.
- Diversify your investments over different continents.
- Spread your investments over companies with different sizes.
- When investing in markets abroad, consider how the currencies from those markets might move in strength versus your home currency.
- Spread your stock market investment over different industry sectors.
- Divide your investments over different companies to be less dependent on the performance of one particular company.