Sunday, February 24, 2008
Get incredible returns with bonded life settlement
A bonded life settlement is all about purchase of life settlement policy by an interested person i.e. investor. When a policyholder needs instant money or do not need the policy anymore than he or she decides to sell it to someone. The related insurance company supports the entire process of selling bonded life settlement policy and puts together the terms and conditions for a fair deal. The owner of the policy sells it on discount rate as he or she has already used the equity on it. Amount that the policyholder was getting as interest will be paid to the investor after accomplishment of deal as he will be the new owner of that bonded life settlement policy. Policyholder can also sell only a portion of that policy to investor so that he may also keep a source of income for himself. Though it is also a better way but some conditions are also applicable here, for instance, if the policyholder sells only a portion of his policy then his expected life anticipation should be at least 36 months. In that situation, the investor will get the privilege of selling his share of policy to third part or insurance company. This facility helps the investor in receiving the true values of his investment.
Advantages of bonded life settlement policy are incomparable; whether you are a policyholder or an investor, this deal will give you great benefits. If you are a senior and have diagnosed with medical problems then you can sell your policy and can get the maximum out of your policy. From an investor’s standpoint, it is a wise deal as the insurance company entrusts that the policy will be purchased on full face value within specific period of time. As every insurance policy is considered as property, it can also be sold like other properties. It also provides returns as other fixed or variable assets, the only difference is that the returns in case of bonded life settlement are very high valued.
Bonded life settlement policy is a safe place to invest your money. Present share market and investors are witnessing its benefits as investing in bonded life settlement policy is the elite aspect of investment in which risk factor is negligible in comparison to returns. Bonded life settlement is factual key to be a better and sensible investor.
Online Forex Trading How It Can Help You
Forex currency trading is a fast business and if you don’t have proper understanding it can be very easy to lose your money with it. There is enough space for small and medium investors now but for safe investment, it’s necessary to be cautious making investments. One thing very important about online trading is it’s not for everyone who has money to invest. It’s only suitable to people who are able to bear loss in the market. One must have a ‘risk capital’ to play the online currency trading game. “Risk capital refers to the money you can risk upon and afford to lose it.” But if you make profit it can also cross every limit. You just need to be alert and go ahead.
Online currency trading is often called as informal as there is no proper market place to trade with, unlike the share market. It’s a very fast market and said to be volatile enough. An individual has to take into account technical and fundamental data and make an informed decision based on his perception of forex futures trading market sentiments and market expectations to become a successful trader.
Online Forex Trading Features
• The best thing about online currency trading is that it is operational 24/7 all over the world. Online currency trading is never closed for trading.
• It’s the most convenient method of trading.
• Its world’s largest business, transactions of more than 3 trillion dollars daily is normal for the online forex market.
• To manage the online currency trading wisely it’s good to read the international news, political and business affairs. Changes on the daily basis affect the market potentiality.
• Some potential trader tutorials and demos are available on the internet. It’s better to go through them while you are entering the online forex trading.
• Online currency trading has a special feature called leverage. You will get a chance to trade in amount in far excess to what you originally are putting in it.
• The first step to online currency trading is opening of an account with any reliable firm which requires a minimum deposit. After opening an account you will be able to play in the online currency trading market.
• Most of the major online currency trading firms provide information and all the details about the online forex trading and have proper training material for traders.
Most people think about online currency trading as a mere game of gambling but it is not like that. You only need to gather correct information and if you are going for a professional assistance search for a reputed one. But never take the risk if don’t have a thorough understanding of the market.
The Real Money Market
Shyamala put all her savings into buying two plots in Bhiwadi, the new township that is coming up in Rajasthan, and which is very close to Gurgaon. “I knew I had missed the bus as far as Gurgaon was concerned; I have been living in Gurgaon and have been watching property market for the past decade, yet I could not make a decision on investing in property here when I could with the kind of money I had.”
Now, she says,” I had to take the plunge, but having been too late for Gurgaon given the fact that the property prices had gone through the roof, I searched for property options beyond this city and could identify one of pre-launch projects in Bhiwadi.”
Shyamala informs that she had invested a million Rupees a year back. And this has jacked up to 2.5, and this is still rising as property opportunities in Gurgaon and Manesar disappear for the middle-income, salaried group.
Govind had a big house in the heart of DLF in Gurgaon. More than a year back he sold that to buy three smaller plots and built a smaller house for himself on one.“I was living in a 500 square yard property that I had built up about a decade back and put my heart and soul; but it was too big to maintain and I realized we were using only 25% of the built up area; I decided to do away with it and spread my investments in smaller properties.”
Govind, at the time when he sold his last house, was worth Rs 15 million. Now his monetary standing is close to 45 million. Needless to say no non-property instrument could have got him this kind of return. Be it Properties in Gurgaon or one anywhere else, the returns are phenomenal, agrees Anuj Bansal, a real estate agent in Gurgaon. All property agents in Gurgaon and just every where would vouch for that.
However you Compute it, Ascendant Copper is One Very Undervalued Company
How do we determine the value of a mining company? The first thing to keep in mind is that all production is prospective, although it comprises the company’s primary source of value.
In the case of Ascendant Copper (TSX:ACX), we have some near term revenue generating potential, and some longer-term prospects.
For example, the company is in negotiations to purchase St. Genevieve Resources (CNQ:SGVL), which is a junior with base metals holdings in Arizona and Nevada, including two near term, past producing properties, namely Zonia and Emerald Isle.
When Ascendant has completed the purchase of SGVL, the company estimates it could go to production at the larger of the two deposits, Zonia Mine, within two years and generate some substantial cash flow annually for some time to come from that property.
The 3,000 acre Zonia Mine property produced 33 million pounds of copper from 1966 to 1975. A NI 43-101 technical report dated October 2006 by Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle Associates estimated an inferred resource of 63 million tons averaging 0.37% total copper at a cut-off grade of 0.25% copper. The total resource was estimated at 460 million pounds of copper.
A note on mine valuation: Determining the price of copper for a non-producing exploration company is a relatively complex task. The actual price of copper – presently about $3.25/lb – must be discounted for future and ongoing exploration costs, fluctuations in the price of copper, risk and other extraction and capital costs, to name just a few. For the purposes of this essay, I will use an average discounted price used in a recent report by an investment bank. For this report, it compared the market capitalization of five non producing copper junior companies divided by the number of pounds of in the ground copper, all of whom can be considered peers to Ascendant. The resulting average value of a pound of copper in the ground is a highly discounted $0.03.
Of course, there are variables that can affect either side of this equation – resource property evaluation is certainly not a precise science. For example, the actual value of all of the metal suspected to be in the ground at one US property and one Ecuadorian property – Zonia and Chaucha, respectively – not calculating for extraction costs or risk, etc., is easy to figure out: approximately $8.0 billion. Just multiply known resource estimates by the present price of copper.
To do that kind of math would be like figuring out the price of a car by multiplying its weight by the price of iron ore – nonsensical, at best.
Thus, the near term Zonia Mine, with 460 million pounds of copper, multiplied by a valuation of $0.03/lb Cu would yield a value of about $14 million to Ascendant.
$14 million is a random sort of number, until we turn it into a per share valuation. Presently, ACX has almost 71 million shares outstanding. After a merger with SGVL, based on the terms of the deal outlined in press releases, I calculate about 100 million ACX shares out. Thus, on a per share basis, Zonia is worth $0.14 per share. Right now, ACX trades at $0.25 per share.
But didn’t I say that ACX is undervalued? You bet.
But future production from Zonia is only a small fraction of what Ascendant has on its plate. Let’s go to South America.
Ascendant has two major projects in Ecuador, right now. If you know Ecuador, then you know there’s some uncertainly at the moment, as the Government reworks the existing mining laws.
Nevertheless, the language from the government and actions by other mining companies in the country suggest a return to business as usual. Dynasty Metals and Mining (TSX:DMM) recently bought out its NSR for $1 million on its near term Zaruma deposit in Ecuador.
Haywood Securities analyst Eric Zaunscherb recently noted the risks involved in operating in Ecuador, including the possibility that a 70% windfall tax could be imposed on mining companies operating in the country, but also added that, "The President and the Ministers of Energy and Mines have already stated that they would go for a contractual arrangement on a one-to-one bases.”
Additionally, the government’s new tax will only be levied on certain commodities, and only when prices cross a particular threshold. What the specifics are only time will tell.
Historical estimates on Ascendant’s Chaucha property are 2.2 billion pounds of copper in the ground. Again, using the average valuation of $0.03 per ground pound of copper, we can calculate the relative value that Chaucha adds to ACX’s share price. The exploration value of the Chaucha (2.2 billion pounds X $0.03) is $66 million for a per share value of $0.66
By adding the per share value of Chaucha to that of Zonia, we get a total per share valuation of $0.80 and a post-merger market capitalization of $80 million and that is based on only two of its properties.
Another way to value a property is by determining its net present value – the value today of production tomorrow after considering cost of production, both capital and operating versus revenue. If one assumes average capital costs for constructing an SXEW operation and all production break even cost of, say, $ 1.15 per pound, then at the price of even $2.00 per pound of copper a back of the envelope calculate would indicate a possible net present value for Zonia (at a 10% discount rate) of over $50 million. Divided by the shares outstanding, on a per share basis under this scenario, Zonia could be worth $0.50. It is too early to run a discounted cash flow for Chaucha, but adding in the $0.66 per share for Chaucha, $1.16 per share is the sum of a discounted cash flow model for Zonia and an exploration valuation for Chaucha. 12-24 months from now, a discount cash flow model on Chaucha may be feasible, significantly adding value to Ascendant’s stock price.
Presently Ascendant Copper has a market cap of approximately 14 million.
Go figure. If we agree on the $0.80 valuation, generating an $80 million market cap, this is over 470% difference from today’s market price. If the discounted cash flow model for Zonia and an exploration valuation for Chaucha are used generating a post merger valuation of $116 million in market capitalization or a $1.16 per share price then that’s as much as a 725% difference from where the stock is trading today. And even if we just take a discounted cash flow valuation for Zonia at 50 million, and leave everything else aside for a moment; that is still over a 250% difference from where Ascendant is presently trading.
Of course, these calculations can be augmented or detracted from in any number of ways. In the former case, the company may find it can go to production at another property before or during production at either of Zonia or Chaucha. The other US property involved in the acquisition of SGVL called Emerald Isle, is a past producer and could, according to Ascendant, add another $22 million in cash flow over four years.
Moreover, the company has a much larger property in Ecuador that has been slowed by an anti-development group. Nevertheless, there’s another potential 19 billion lbs copper and 864 million lbs molybdenum to be moved into measured and indicated categories at Junin, too.
All told, if you’ve heard the rumour that Ascendant Copper is possibly the most undervalued junior exploration company trading on the TSX, then you’re certainly not alone.
This article is intended for information purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell the equities of any company mentioned herein. It is based on sources believed to be reliable, but no warranty as to accuracy is expressed or implied. The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author except where statements are attributed to individuals other than the author, in which case the opinions are those of the individual to whom they are attributed.
Homeowner Loans: Locked in stock crisis...Make your home the key
Millions of people have been ripped off with their money and assets with the sudden downfall in the recent stock market. It has completely wrecked the finances of masses. Small fishes of this trade have been badly affected with this decline in the share market. Incurring heavy losses, their condition has become miserable. But there is a hope for homeowners to start afresh with their living with homeowner loans.
The only solution to help them take a stand again is collecting money on the basis of the value of their home. Though it might bother you to place your home against a loan, but it is the only option to come out of this disaster. And it's the best option as it comes with many benefits and offers incomparable financial assistance.
Lowest Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
As the borrower gives his home as a security to lender, therefore, he is provided with some of the most competitive APRs in the market. With interest rates as low as 6 per cent your monthly outflows would be reduced and you can have some savings.
High Borrowings
With your home working as collateral, you can take money as per the available equity of the home. With huge borrowings, you can meet your requirements and make up for the rainy days.
Repayment Schedule
Your borrowings can be cleared off in a time span of 25 years. With longer time duration, your monthly instalments are also made small for easy repayments.
For Bad credit holders also
Bad credit holders can also avail of this offer by collating their homes. Even if you have been issued CCJ, or have been a defaulter, you can take loans against your home.
Plenty of lenders are thriving in the UK market. Before you plan for homeowner loans take a trip of your market and compare loans and other benefits. Don't stick to only one lender and choose the one you feel most comfortable with to take you out of this disaster.