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Investment (or investing) is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption. An asset is usually purchased, or equivalently a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it. The word originates in the Latin "vestis", meaning garment, and refers to the act of putting things (money or other claims to resources) into others' pockets. Basis of Investments - definitions, problems, kinds. Institutional Investors, Investment management, Portfolio of Investments, Foreign Investment, long-term Investments: gold, silver, diamonds.

Banks is a financial institution that acts as a payment agent for customers, and borrows and lends money. In some countries such as Germany and Japan banks are the primary owners of industrial corporations while in other countries such as the United States banks are prohibited from owning non-financial companies. Under English law, bank is defined as a person who carries on the business of banking: conducting current accounts for customers, paying cheques drawn on a given person, and collecting cheques for their customers.
Banking Origin and Development, History of U.S. Banking, Bank of the United States, Banking Services, Investment Banking, Real Estate Financing, Payment Services, Trust Services, Commercial Banks, Federal Reserve Systems.

Mutual Funds is a professionally-managed form of collective investments that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities. Basis of Funds, advantages and disadvantages, types of mutual funds, the ABCs classes, funds duties, risks of investing and fees, expenses of funds. Read about SEC - is a United States government agency having primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry/stock market. Here are some specific guidelines for picking mutual fund.

Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely. A person may also semi-retire and keep some sort of retirement job, out of choice rather than necessity. This usually happens upon reaching a determined age, when physical conditions don't allow the person to work any more (by illness or accident), or even for personal choice (usually in the presence of an adequate pension or personal savings).
What is Retirement Planning? Retirement Benefits, Individual Retirement Account (or IRA), Simplified Employee Pension (SEP-IRA), 401 (k) Plan, US Pensions System?
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) - is the federal corporation that administers the pension insurance program established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, PBGC insures workers in most private-sector defined benefit pension plans in the event that their plans do not have sufficient assets to pay benefits if the plans are terminated because of the bankruptcy or other financial distress of the sponsoring employers.

Income, generally defined, is the money that is received as a result of the normal business activities of an individual or a business. There are some articles about main term of Income: Definitions, Per-capita Income, Income and Revenue, National Income.

Real Estate Investing. Begining with basis, REITs

There are the holidays of the New York Stock Exchange 2008-2009, London Stock Exchange 2008 and Tokyo Stock Exchange 2008 . Each holiday has their own recommended early close date and time. There is also the information about FRS Holidays 2008-2011.

Time is Money

Money can be anything that is generally and universally accepted for the payment of goods, services, or debts. It consists of coins, paper money or currency, and checks that are convertible into currency and coin on demand. Money is created by a government and also by private institutions under its direct control. The four functions of money are medium of exchange, measure or standard of value, store of value, and standard of deferred payment.
Money history, Kinds of Money, Money Theories, Foreign Exchange, Money Supply
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Currency, in modern finance, is considered to be synonymous with paper money. In the past some writers stretched the term to include all forms of money that circulate (coins, banknotes). Currency - this is the kind of money used in a particular country. For example Dollar ($) — in the United States of America, ISO 4217 Code - USD, Yen (¥) — Japan, ISO 4217 Code - JPY and etc.
Government Currency, Bank Currency (bank notes)

Multinational Corporations

Multinational corporation (MNC) – a large company with plants or other direct investment in one or more foreign countries. It is also called an international corporation or a transnational corporation.
List of Multinational Corporations by country

Accenture Ltd., Audi AG British Petroleum plc, Daimler AG, Fiat S.p.A., Ford Motor Company, General Electric Company, SAP AG, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nokia Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, , etc.

Best Companies in 2007 (Top 100) from Fortune magazine.
Best Asian Companies, Best Canadian Companies, Best Chinese Companies,
Best European Companies, Best Indian Companies, Best Companies in the USA