Archive for February, 2008

The basis of dividend payouts

When we treat dividend policy as strictly a financing decision, the payment of cash dividends is a passive residual. The percentage of earnings paid out as dividends will fluctuate from period to period in keeping with fluctuations in the amount of acceptable investment opportunities available to the firm.
If these opportunities are abound, the percentage of [...]

Beating the market: Real estate investments

Investment in property is one of the most sought after tools in today financial market place. No other finance and investment tool offers the stability, simplicity and an excellent return as the real estate investment does. And if that investment is in a promising, emerging economy like that South Africa, it adds glitter to the [...]

Four Reasons for why you should opt for a re-mortgage

There were days when borrowers would take a mortgage finance loan and stick with it till they repaid the finance in its full tenure. Those days and incidences have now been confined to the books of history. The modern day finance management provides the borrower with the option of re-mortgage.
Reason No. 1
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Decode the types of mortgage rates

Steering through process of purchasing a home could be scary at times, especially with multiple kinds of mortgage finance rates swimming all around you. It is for this that a good understanding of the mortgage rates will help you in taking a faster and secured home loan decision.
Here’s a small summary of some of the [...]