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  • Pensions in spain
    Do you live in Spain? How much do you know about Pensions in Spain? Here's a short guide to the Spanish pension system and some advice about who to talk to.
  • Ron Pollack on Investing, Family and Charities
    Both Yale and HBS seem to have a penchant for turning out successful investors: Jim Chanos (widely credited with exposing Enron as a fraud, whom Ron got to know back in the 1980s when they were both short First Executive Life), Zoe Cruz (a brilliant commodity trader who rose to the co-presidency of Morgan Stanley, was a sectionmate of Ron's at HBS), Jamie Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan Chase, with whom Ron used to play pickup basketball at HBS), Strauss Zelnick (media wunderkind and Chairman of ZelnickMedia and Take-Two Interactive, Ron's roommate at HBS), Scott Schoen and Scott Sperling (co-presidents of leveraged buyout giant THL, and friends of Ron from HBS), Steve Pagliuca and Joshua Bekenstein (of Bain Capital, friends of Ron from HBS and Yale respectively), Glenn Hutchins (of Silver Lake Partners, also a HBS classmate) to name just a few. Ron Pollack (http://www.ronpollack.net) is no exception.
  • Fund Manager Ron Pollack on Friends and Family
    A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the man, Ron Pollack (http://www.ronpollack.net), who had set up what was at one time one of the largest hedge funds in the US, peaking at over a billion dollars. We met in a Florida office in early summer. He was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and if you had passed him walking down the street you wouldn't guess the amount of finances that this man can control. During the interview, Pollack talked about his career as a short seller and hedge fund manger, the charity groups he helps, his family, and why he's decided to return to short selling after a six-year hiatus. "Short selling is what I do and I need to get back to doing it," states Pollack.
  • Why should I sell my house and rent it back ?
    When your mortgage is too much, but you don't want to move, you can sell your home to rent it back!
  • 4. How You can Make Gains from Using the Forex trading Grid System
    In this forth article in the series you can learn how to make money trading the no stop, hedged Forex trading system by having a buy and a sell active at each grid trading level. A mathematical calculation is shown of the basic 100% retracement formation.
  • Finding a great currency trading signal service
    How to find a great Forex Trading alert or signal service is not that hard if you follow the systematic method recommended in this article
  • Identifying Online Credit Card Fraudsters
    As more and more retail and service providers make the decision to sell their products online in order to meet demand.
  • Stock Options Trading Information
    Stock options trading can be ridiculously tough if you don't know what you are doing.
  • Budget Your Money
    They say “A penny saved is a penny gained”. So how can one save this penny? What should we do to increase our wealth without serious cutting our expense items down? The way out is budgeting.

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