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		<title>The Greatest Money Migration in 63 Years</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Is About to Make a Few Investors Very Rich  It completely dwarfs the &#8220;Great American Industrial&#8221; run up, the tech boom and the Internet combined&#8230;  Dear Investor  We are living in unprecedented times  A major money migration event is taking place in the financial markets right now&#8230;  Right now while you are reading this article [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;"> Is About to Make a Few Investors Very Rich</h3>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"> It completely dwarfs the &#8220;Great American<br />
Industrial&#8221; run up, the tech boom and<br />
the Internet combined&#8230;</h5>
<p style="text-align: left;"> Dear Investor</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> We are living in unprecedented times</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> A major money migration event is taking place in the financial markets right now&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> Right now while you are reading this article billions of dollars are being transferred into one investment class&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And it has only just started&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In the coming 12 to 34 months, it has been estimated another $100 billion US dollars will flow into this investment class &#8211; handing investors a &#8220;golden&#8221; opportunity to pocket 100, 200, even 300 % gains.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s right.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Imagine taking a $10,000 investment and watching it balloon to $40,000 in less than three years&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or a $50,000 investment grow to over $ 250,000 over the same time period!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s how powerful this &#8220;money migration&#8221; is.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> And it has already begun.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Over the course of the next few minutes, I&#8217;ll explain just how and why this may be the biggest money making opportunity you&#8217;ll see in your lifetime &#8211; and why it&#8217;s inevitable that most investors will miss out on it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s important to know this is not about investing in a single &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; stock&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about profiting from a monumental shift in global capital &#8211; the likes of which investors have never seen.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What&#8217;s more, this is not an opportunity you&#8217;ll learn about by watching CNBC or reading Money magazine&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As always whenever there has been a massive historic economic event in the making &#8211; most investors and economic pundits will not talk about it until after it has happened.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> And like so many other &#8220;big trends&#8221; before it </p>
<p>The industrial revolution, post World War II boom, the information age</p>
<p>Virtually almost everyone will be kicking themselves for not seeing it, and almost everyone will also lose out from profiting when they had the chance.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s the reason why only a relative few investors will ever be able to take advantage of this opportunity.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But, if you&#8217;re one of those few who understands the driving force behind this important and inevitable money migration and market shift </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll know instantly the obvious ways to profit from it&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;m sure if you take action and apply this knowledge you may even look back on this moment as the single most defining investing moment in your lifetime &#8211; when this one decision you made allowed you to once and for all erase any financial worries out of your life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So let&#8217;s get to the core of this matter&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Let me explain to you about this phenomenal economic event that&#8217;s going to make a handful of informed and savvy investors extremely wealthy over the next three years&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This is without question the largest avalanche of New Profits Ever Unleashed&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Do you want to be part of it?</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Click link below to learn how you can profit from this money migration too</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"> Because while you are sitting here reading this article; the biggest redirection of capital the world has ever seen is underway.</p>
<p>Billions of dollars are literarily leaving the once-rock solid U.S. markets and migrating into blue-chip companies based outside of the U.S.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are many reasons why it&#8217;s happening.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One is the U.S. dollar is flagging, weighed down under a growing mountain of debt.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Global investors can&#8217;t see how the U.S. can keep servicing such a humongous debt.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">A correction is long overdue and while it is taking place inside of U.S, smart money is moving overseas.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The future clearly lie in emerging powerhouses like China, India and other once secondary economies that are going full stream ahead.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Honestly though, the reasons aren&#8217;t as important as the trend itself.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s why: Know where the money&#8217;s headed and you&#8217;ll get rich.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s as simple as that.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In a minute I&#8217;ll introduce you to a powerful, proven investment tool which can show you how you can put your investment portfolio on auto pilot and ride the coat tails of the world&#8217;s best money managers.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">They have a proven track record of up to 10 years of knowing precisely where the &#8220;smart&#8221; capital is moving &#8211; places where it&#8217;s still possible to rack up 200%, 300% + gains and more in the coming 36 months alone.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Let&#8217;s face it, investing is about having the right information at the right time and taking action on that information.</p>
<p>Many people are of the opinion that knowledge is power, however this is not true, because if you have the right knowledge and do nothing with it how much is it worth?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Here is what makes the difference;&#8221; Applied knowledge is power&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Once you apply this system it&#8217;ll be as if you stumbled on the biggest bull market in modern investing history.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Like bull market runs in the good old days when top U.S. companies were propelled higher day after day, month after month.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">However this time it is not U.S based companies doing the Big Bull Run.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This time the bull run is led by super high growth companies that you have probably never heard of</p>
<p>Yet they are surpassing the likes of General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Boeing, Lucent, U.S. Steel, Citigroup, Philip Morris, McDonalds, Alcoa, you name it&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What&#8217;s more, these &#8220;gazelle&#8221; like companies are still extremely cheap &#8211; trading at P/Es in the single digits &#8211; And yet they have global sized markets&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you take a look at the investment arena of the last 25 years there has historically not been an opportunity of this enormous magnitude&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But don&#8217;t just take my word for it&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Look at the fundamentals, what&#8217;s happening right now all comes down to the &#8220;BRIC&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Brazil, Russia, India, China.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Recently the Wall Street Journal said;&#8221; For the first time in history this money migration has attracted more money than all U.S. stock funds combined&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Warren Buffett, has invested $21.4 billion in foreign currencies to take advantage of the money migration.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Emerging markets beat Wall Street by more than 20-fold, according to data from the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Investors who knows how to take advantage of this situation are about to land on a gold mine. Let me explain&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>This is The Kind of Growth That Fortunes Are Made On</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Taking advantage of this Great Money Migration is just like staking your claim to extraordinary wealth.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Consider that&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Investors got stinking rich, making 300%, 400%, 500% gains during the tech hardware boom in the ‘80s and it &#8220;only&#8221; attracted around $ 50 billion.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">From 1980 until 1990 investors who bought IBM stocks doubled their money every year for ten years.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yet the rush for this boom has only just begun and it has already attracted 1 trillion dollars.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Internet boom run up attracted $ 120 billion and investors got even richer some making 1100 % or more by year 2000.</p>
<p>Some very savvy and smart investors made gains of more that 95,667 % on gems like Cisco, turning $ 10,000 into $ 9.56 million&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">People made huge profits on stocks that has turned into common everyday names.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Historically the world has not seen a money migration of this magnitude since 1942 when 7 trillion dollars began flowing into the U.S at the end of the 2nd World War .</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Back then the money migration was so huge the U.S captured 50 % of the world&#8217;s economy and it made USA the richest country on earth.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Savvy and informed investors had arrived on Easy Street.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">However this current money migration is set to exceed the Great American Industrial run up by up to 20 times!</p>
<p>And the reason is simple&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Just Follow the Money Trail To Reap the Profits&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The picture of this money trail is outrageous&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yet it shows the enormity of this opportunity &#8211; and why it is so absolutely critical to claim a stake in this money migration right now.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You see, just after World War II in 1945, one out of every two dollars in the world flowed into U.S. companies. That by itself was not surprising&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There was actually not any other choice&#8230; Europe and Japan had all but collapsed. And America literally was the world&#8217;s market.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately, that has changed dramatically&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Today less than 22% of the global economy belongs to the U.S. &#8211; a huge drop from the 50% figure it used to to be&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s a decline of more than half of what it was just a few short years ago.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The world&#8217;s highest performing money managers continue to pinpoint the most important emerging countries as Brazil, Russia, India and China, collectively known as the BRIC.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">These are the areas of the world where big money is being made right now.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> Recently this is what Goldman Sachs, one of the world&#8217;s leading investment banking firms, had to say:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> <strong>&#8220;&#8230; China could overtake Germany in the next couple of years, Japan by 2015 and the U.S. by 2039. India&#8217;s economy could be larger than all but the U.S. and China&#8230;&#8221;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As a matter of fact, some of the best and biggest investing gems come from markets that are almost unknown by the investing world.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The B.R.I.C is set to Dominate World Markets in the future</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">New Goldman Sachs research indicates that&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And this might shock you, by the way&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The combined economies of the BRIC countries could become larger than the G6 countries in U.S. dollar terms.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;The BRICs real exchange rates could appreciate up to 300%&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you have any doubts that the money migration is a rare and unique investing opportunity, look at what</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The McKinsey Global Institute has reported.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The McKinsey Global Institute, one of the world&#8217;s premiere financial analysis companies, has recently concluded in its year long research initiative &#8211; a comprehensive study of the top 100 countries, going all the way back to 1980.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This left a few analysts privy to this information with their jaws agape&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">and scrambling to figure out just how to get a piece of the profits.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In the report it states that investments are set to climb from $119 trillion to more than $209 trillion in the top producing countries in the world within the next few years.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That is an increase of over $91 trillion dollars, that&#8217;s almost double&#8230;. And mind you it&#8217;s trillion with a &#8220;t.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s the biggest money migration into the world&#8217;s economy in our lifetimes&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In comparison the entire U.S economy is valued at $ 12 trillion right now. </p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The companies that serve the largest global markets, are growing faster than analysts could have ever predicted.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Can you see, the growth in companies worldwide?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">These are first and foremost companies in Brazil, Russia, India and China. It also includes companies in Eastern Europe, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada and finally a select few in the U.S.A.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t you want to take part in this life-changing opportunity? </p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Isn&#8217;t it your turn to participate and profit from the biggest investing event in 63 years?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It is already getting under way&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Are you going to sit on the fence and watch or do you take action?</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Learn more about this powerful, proven investment tool which can show you how to put your investment portfolio on auto pilot and ride the coat tails of the world&#8217;s best money managers.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss out on this once in a life time opportunity.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Take Action and Click on the link below to find out more</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">What&#8217;s more, by not taking action of this money migration could put a major dent in your portfolio.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Investors are facing the biggest risks to their capital than at any other time in recent history&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I mean look at &#8220;Fannie&#8221; and &#8220;Freddie&#8221; they used to be safe as houses.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">However as it turns out those houses were mortgaged at hyper inflated unrealistic prices.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;Fannie&#8221; and &#8220;Freddie&#8221; along with major banks, regional banks and other investors stand to loose big time!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Most U.S. companies are faced with unprecedented outsourcing, low-wage foreign competition, rising commodity and energy costs, accounting scandals, and unfair governmental regulation.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And it shows&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">When you consider that inflation has been hovering around 3%, the losses are getting even bigger.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And then there&#8217;s the dollar &#8211; it&#8217;s lost 40% of its value since 2001.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Legendary investor Warren Buffett announced that he now holds more foreign currency than U.S. dollars.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And Bill Gates, one of the world&#8217;s richest men with a net worth of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar &#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;I&#8217;m short on the dollar,&#8221; Gates told Charlie Rose in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. &#8220;The old&#8217; dollar, it&#8217;s gonna go down.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As the dollar falls with respect to other currencies, U.S. stocks will continue to fall with it&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Are you taking advantage of being invested in these emerging markets?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Are you unsure of how to access these markets and avoid the most common traps pitfalls and mistakes?</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Learn how you can take advantage of this unprecedented money migration by riding the coat tails of the best money managers in the world.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <strong>WHERE TO START</strong></p>
<p>When considering your financial future is nice to know that there are several options, and ways to invest. The downside to this is trying to wade through the multiple options to find the right path for your current needs. Investing is never a stagnate path, it is always changing as our needs and circumstances change. If you carve up your financial and personal needs in to four main categories it is often easier for you to see what path you should travel down. The four categories will be Liquidity needs, Goals and Objectives, Time Horizon and your Risk Profile.</p>
<p><strong>LIQUIDITY NEEDS.</strong></p>
<p>This is the amount you need on hand for emergencies and other short term goals. The money that you don&#8217;t want tied up in long term investments.</p>
<p><strong>GOALS &amp; OBJECTIVES.</strong></p>
<p>What are you trying to accomplish with these investments?</p>
<p>Do you have a specific goal in mind, such as a house, or retirement?</p>
<p><strong>TIME HORIZON.</strong></p>
<p>How long do you want to wait to see our returns?</p>
<p><strong>RISK PROFILE.</strong></p>
<p>What kind of risk are you able to tolerate? What can you put out there and still sleep at night and not burn ulcers through our spine? These four areas are the essentials to finding the types of investments you want to use from the long list of available markets and paths out there today. Answering those four areas makes the path fairly obvious.</p>
<p><strong>BEGIN AT THE END</strong></p>
<p>Every great mystery writer knows the best way to write a good story is to start at the end and work your way backwards. Solving the mystery of good investment plans is very similar. Start with your retirement plans and work back to your day to day needs. Your current liquidity is of course the primary need. If the car needs new brakes, or the front window gets smashed, or the wash machine is chewing instead of cleaning, these problems have to be solved, and money expended, otherwise you are going to have a difficult time maintaining jobs and relations. After you have a comfort zone figured out for your primary liquidity needs however, retirement plans are the best place to jump to, for several reasons. First off, investments setup for retirement are often protected from situations such as bankruptcy and lawsuits. Retirement is a protected area from these, and often will be left alone even when everything else is taken. So it is always a good idea to have investments dedicated for retirement purposes. Second, there are often very good tax advantages associated with retirement investments, such as 401(k) plans, deductible and Roth IRAs, Keoghs, and SEPs.</p>
<p><strong>WHY RETIREMENT PLANS SHOULD BE YOUR PRIORITY!</strong></p>
<p><strong>RETIREMENT PLANS</strong></p>
<p>The investments you make toward most retirement plans are tax deductible. These investments and the interest and gains they accrue are not taxed until the money is withdrawn.</p>
<p>The income earned in most retirement plans is not taxed until you make a withdrawal. Having your financial security funded gives you peace of mind.</p>
<p><strong>OTHER INVESTMENTS</strong></p>
<p>The money you put in other investments is not tax deductible. The income earned on your other investments is normally taxed currently. If you are funding other investments rather than your retirement plans, not only are you giving up tax benefits, you may be putting your own financial future at risk.</p>
<p><strong>HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU NEED TO START INVESTING?</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s always the question. Often we are looking at this for the first time because our lives have started to even out, bills are getting paid regularly and maintenance has become a standard task rather than an emergency threat. After all of the smoke has cleared we see there actually is some money left over that could be doing something good for us, instead of just sitting around waiting for the next impulse buy.</p>
<p>There are mutual funds which will let you open an account for as little as $100.00, so you can start very small and begin to build from there. Diversification is a key word for investments, so you could put your money in several different funds. Online stock trading now brings you much closer to investment opportunities as well. It used to be that you needed a broker and to purchase stocks in blocks, investing at least $1000.00. Now you can purchase single shares. However, as we will talk about later, with the fees and taxes involved we need to be careful about purchasing small amounts of stock, simply because the fees involved erode away our investments, rather than building them up.</p>
<p><strong>KEEP THE WORRY DOWN</strong></p>
<p>Planning, research and learning about your investments and your opportunities not only allows you to make good decisions, but takes away the mythic fear and worry surrounding investments and retirement planning. Hope this article has helped educate you and eliminate the confusing nature of your investment solutions, by talking about the choices you have, and what they mean to you.</p>
<p>Our only goal is to get you started on the road to wise investment decisions.</p>
<p><strong>So let&#8217;s get started.</strong></p>
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<p>People talk about the &#8220;Market&#8221; like it was a single investment area, but you have probably already worked out that this is not the case. So let&#8217;s go through the &#8220;Market&#8221; and see some of the different indexes that are out there.</p>
<p> <strong>Market Index</strong></p>
<p>First off let&#8217;s begin with what a stock market index is before we get into the separate indexes themselves. A stock market index is a listing</p>
<p>of stocks, chosen to represent a portion of the market, so it is also a statistically created number reflecting the composite value of the stocks.</p>
<p>For weights to create these composite numbers, some indexes use Price, and some use Market Value. The index itself is a tool to gain an</p>
<p>overview of how sections, industries or portfolios (such as mutual funds), are doing at any given time. The most regularly quoted market</p>
<p>indices are broad-base indices, such as the American Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&amp;P 500 Index, the British FTSE 100, the French CAC 40</p>
<p>and the Japanese Nikkei 225. More specialized indices exist, tracking the performance of specific sectors of the market.</p>
<p>The Morgan Stanley Biotech Index, for example, consists of 36 American firms in the biotechnology industry. Other indices may track companies</p>
<p>of a certain size, a certain type of management, or even more specialized criteria- one index published by Linux Weekly News tracks stocks of</p>
<p>companies that sell products and services based on the Linux operating environment. A notable specialized index type is those for ethical investing</p>
<p>that include only those companies satisfying ecological or social criteria, e.g. those of The Calvert Group, Domini, Dow Jones Sustainability Index</p>
<p>and Wilderhill Clean Energy Index.</p>
<p> <strong>The Dow</strong></p>
<p>The Dow is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones &amp; Company founder Charles Dow.</p>
<p>Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America&#8217;s stock markets. It is the oldest continuing U.S. market index.</p>
<p>Today, the average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States.</p>
<p>To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a weighted average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks.</p>
<p> <strong>NASDQ</strong></p>
<p>NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market.</p>
<p>It was founded by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) who divested it in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001.</p>
<p>It is owned and operated by The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. NASDAQ: NDAQ which was listed on its own stock exchange in 2002.</p>
<p>When it began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world&#8217;s first electronic stock market. On July 17, 1995 the NASDAQ stock index closed</p>
<p>above the 1,000 mark for the first time. The index peaked at 5132.52 on March 10, 2000, which signaled the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom stock bubble.</p>
<p>The index declined to half its value within a year and is still valued at less than half its peak. However, NASDAQ is now the largest U.S. electronic stock market.</p>
<p> <strong>S&amp;P 500</strong></p>
<p>The S&amp;P 500 is a list of 500 US corporations, ordered by market capitalization. The list is owned and maintained by Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s.</p>
<p>The market-value weighted performance of the stocks of these companies is known as the S&amp;P 500 index.</p>
<p>After the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&amp;P 500 is the most widely-watched index of large-cap US stocks.</p>
<p>Many index funds and exchange-traded funds track the performance of the S&amp;P 500 by holding the same stocks as the S&amp;P 500 index, attempting to match its performance.</p>
<p>Partly because of this, a company which has its stock added to the list may see a boost in its stock price as mutual fund managers are forced to purchase that company&#8217;s</p>
<p>stock in order to match their index funds&#8217; composition to that of the S&amp;P 500 index.</p>
<p> <strong>Russell Index</strong></p>
<p>The Russell Indexes (yes, Russell uses &#8220;Indexes&#8221; rather than &#8220;Indices&#8221;) are a set of stock market indices of listed US companies. The main index is the Russell 3000 Index,</p>
<p>which is divided into several sub-indexes. The list of stocks in the Russell 3000 is managed by the Russell Investment Group. Russell forms its indexes by listing all US companies</p>
<p>in descending order by market capitalization. The top 3,000 stocks (those of the 3,000 largest companies) make up the broad Russell 3000 Index. The top 1,000 of those</p>
<p>companies make up the large-cap Russell 1000 Index, and the bottom 2,000 (the smallest companies) make up the small-cap Russell 2000 Index.</p>
<p>The indexes are rebalanced, or &#8220;reconstituted&#8221;, once each year, on the last Friday in June. The reconstitution consists of updating the list of the largest 3,000 companies</p>
<p>and assigning them to the appropriate indexes. Unlike the S&amp;P 500 Index, the Russell indexes do not immediately replace a company that merges with another firm or has</p>
<p>its stock unlisted. This means that, for most of the year, the Russell 3000 Index has fewer than 3,000 companies in it. For instance, if a company from the index is unlisted in July,</p>
<p>that will be an empty spot in the index until the following June. The annual June rebalancing brings the total back up to 3,000. Many investors use mutual funds or exchange-traded funds based on the Russell Indexes as a way of gaining exposure to certain portions of the US stock market. Additionally, many investment managers use the Russell Indexes as performance benchmarks to measure against.</p>
<p>Indexes are useful tools for tracking trends, and getting quick views of what is going on with separate segments. Most agree that it is the S&amp;P 500 which gives the most accurate At-A-Glance overview of the U.S. Market trends and movements. What is best for you depends on the type of investing you wish to do.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you go ahead and read this blog post, please go and read the About section as well as the Disclaimer. The link is located in the top right hand column. If most of your money is in the US Market, you&#8217;re missing out on the greatest profit bonanza that our generation has ever seen&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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<p>Before you go ahead and read this blog post, please go and read<br />
the <strong>About section </strong>as well as the <strong>Disclaimer. </strong>The link is located in<br />
the <strong>top right hand column.</strong></p>
<p><strong>If most of your money is in the </strong><strong>US</strong><strong> Market, you&#8217;re missing out</strong><strong><br />
<strong>on the greatest profit bonanza that our generation has ever<br />
seen&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8230;and leaving up to 80% of your profit potential on the table!<br />
</strong></strong><br />
You&#8217;ll soon see that crazy zealots will tell you that the<br />
U.S. stock market is the best place to be invested right now&#8230;</p>
<p>Others will tell you that the property is the best&#8230;</p>
<p>And others will say that managed funds are better&#8230;</p>
<p>But what <strong>FACTUAL evidence</strong> do any of these individuals<br />
or companies provide as the basis for their point of view?</p>
<p>Unfortunately in most cases it&#8217;s nothing more than a hunch.<br />
So let me contrast the difference when you approach this<br />
exercise with in-depth research&#8230;</p>
<p>Take last year, for example:</p>
<p><strong>The S&amp;P 500 rose a measly 5.5%.</strong></p>
<p>That alone should give you some clues about where <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span><br />
to be invested right now&#8230;</p>
<p>And, consider this</p>
<ul>
<li>If you had invested in <strong>Malaysia</strong><strong>&#8216;s KLSE Composite Index<br />
</strong>instead, you would have done more than five and a half times<br />
better &#8211; with a <strong>31.8% gain &#8230;</p>
<p></strong></li>
<li><strong>Brazil&#8217;s Bovespa IBRX Index</strong> could have made you more<br />
than eight times more money &#8211; with a <strong>47.8% gain &#8230;</p>
<p></strong></li>
<li><strong>Nigeria&#8217;s NSE All Share Index</strong> would have made you nearly<br />
thirteen times richer than the S&amp;P 500- with <strong>a 74.4% gain&#8230;</p>
<p></strong></li>
<li>If you&#8217;d invested in <strong>Bangladesh&#8217;s DSE General Bengal<br />
Index</strong> instead of the S&amp;P 500, you would have made fifteen<br />
times more money &#8211; with a <strong>86.6% gain, and &#8230;</p>
<p></strong></li>
<li><strong>China&#8217;s Shanghai SE Composite Index</strong> could have made<br />
you more than seventeen times richer &#8211; with a mind-boggling<br />
<strong>96.6% gain!</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>My question to you now is&#8230;</p>
<p>When you look at all the <strong>turmoil</strong> in the <strong>financial markets</strong> of late<br />
and you see the <strong>soaring prices of commodities and oil</strong>, does it<br />
make you see <strong>gloom and doom</strong> or do you see a once in a <strong>lifetime<br />
opportunity to profit</strong> when everyone else is running for cover?</p>
<p>The <strong>media is full of stories of turmoil</strong>, collapse of major banking<br />
institutions etc. I will not be surprised if in 5 &#8211; 8 years time we will<br />
all be looking back on the recent years of boom times as the<br />
<strong>most prosperous time</strong> in modern day history.</p>
<p>In the years from <strong>2000 &#8211; 2008 did you prosper?</strong></p>
<p>If you did <strong>congratulations!</strong></p>
<p>You obviously know and have learnt how to <strong>position yourself<br />
correctly.</strong> If you didn&#8217;t prosper <strong>do not despair, </strong>because in<br />
this global world we live in there is <strong>always</strong> an <strong>opportunity to<br />
prosper </strong>if you know how.</p>
<p>Like Sir Richard Branson says: &#8220;<strong>Opportunities are like buses</strong>,<br />
there&#8217;s always another one coming&#8221;.</p>
<p>My views are somewhat <strong>off beat</strong> from the mainstream media and<br />
if you look at <strong>those who</strong> are <strong>producing extraordinary results<br />
to the upside</strong>, they do <strong>not dance</strong> to the tune of the <strong>mainstream<br />
media</strong>.</p>
<p>By the time &#8220;good investments&#8221; reach the mainstream media the<br />
<strong>savvy investors</strong> have <strong>made their money</strong> and are either <strong>ready<br />
to exit or ride the wave</strong> further up because the <strong>fundamentals<br />
are strong</strong>.</p>
<p>If this type of <strong>perspective on investing takes your interest<br />
stay tuned</strong>, because in the <strong>next post</strong> I will talk about what sort<br />
of <strong>results these savvy investors</strong> have <strong>achieved</strong> for the last ten<br />
years.</p>
<p>And <strong>how you can do it do too</strong> by putting your <strong>investments on<br />
autopilot</strong> and at the same time be <strong>in full control</strong> of your investment<br />
at all times, which is <strong>very important</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Until next time happy investing.</strong></div>
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