For example, do declines in the dollar relative to the euro indicate increases in the dollar
value of hard assets?
For instance, a P / B ratio tends to be more useful for companies with a
lot of hard assets on their books, such as factories or equipment.
Gold has been the traditional go - to for investors seeking the financial safe
haven of hard assets, but silver is gaining ground due to its rising role in the industry.
He is responsible for leading our growth plans and participating in the development of single tenant retail build to suit properties and will also assist in the
expansion of our hard asset lending platform.
As
CEO of the Hard Assets Alliance, I regularly receive questions from people looking to buy gold as an investment — and for a good reason.
Bad economic news puts pressure on the Fed to deploy the QE2 which will raise the
price of hard assets and drive interest rates lower.
However, even if you're purchasing metal for delivery, given the
competitiveness of Hard Assets Alliance's premiums over the gold spot prices, they are still the clear winner.
When you are looking at the margin of safety you can look at it in
terms of hard assets like Ben Graham used to, or you can look at it in terms of more intangible assets which can be very valuable.
Some nations are hot
beds of hard asset production, deriving much of their GDP growth from them.
What I didn't publicly state, but privately was researching, were the
quality of the hard assets and brands they purchased from St - Hubert.
Before there's general
inflation of hard assets and wages there could well be an acceleration in financial asset inflation:
PRPFX invests in a
variety of hard assets designed to preserve and increase purchasing power, such as gold, Treasury bonds, growth stocks, Swiss francs and real estate.
Individuals with a Green ideology, i.e. those who have been living within their means (minimal consumption), will have accumulated great wealth in the
form of hard assets (gold and short - term U. S. treasury bills).
With my background in finance I thought it was time to enter the «flipping game»
of HARD assets besides the soft secondary market I was in.
«Along with dozens of other esteemed financial researchers, Mauldin Economics is a
member of Hard Assets Alliance, an innovative way to buy and hold gold both domestically and internationally.
And as the
CEO of the Hard Assets Alliance, I felt the responsibility to clarify why we launched this service, which seemed to send a mixed message to our customers.
As someone who owns a
lot of hard assets, I love inflation... and don't really mind stagflation all that much.
The way Robert Kiyosaki, educational entrepreneur of «Rich Dad» fame and member
of the Hard Assets Alliance, started accumulating his wealth seems more than just a bit quirky.
Debt can boost a company's liabilities to the point where they wipe out much of the book
value of its hard assets, creating artificially high P / B values.
Time management is one
of the hardest assets to put to work for your business.
It is better for an capitalist economy to correct imbalances in the value of financial assets (debt / money) and the value
of hard assets (homes / land / other colattoral) before either one is excessively desired more than the other.
Members
of the Hard Assets Alliance aren't just financial experts, we're investors ourselves.
This is why we have bi-annual audits of
all of the Hard Assets Alliance precious metal vaults instead.
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