The Hotel industry strikes back: Marriott enters the home-sharing business
Marriott, the world's largest hotelier enters the homeshare market to beat popular home-sharing platforms like Airbnb and HomeAway, at their own game. Marriott International launched a six-month trial period with U.K.-based home rental company Hostmaker, adding some 200 homes across London to its offerings. Travelers can log onto TributePortfolioHomes.com and book a stay in more than 200 homes in [...]
What are the Dividend Aristocrats and How Do I Invest in Them?
When it’s time to create your stocks portfolio, one of the things to decide is if you want to go for value or dividends (stocks). With the first, you choose companies (or mix of companies) that are expected to grow in value, therefore increasing the price of their stocks. With dividends, you typically target companies that are pretty stable, [...]
CRYPTO20: The First Tokenized Cryptocurrency Index Fund
2017 has definitely been the year of cryptocurrencies. I sensed a strong increase in news and on the streets you could easily find people talking about Bitcoin or the next amazing-will-make-you-reach ico. More and more people jumped on the wagon of cryptocurrency investment, often not even understanding the concepts behind them, and this helped pumping the value to new [...]
How to invest in diamonds: crash course
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, or so says a famous jazz song by Carol Channing. Diamonds, the gems that have symbolized love and marriage for decades, are beginning to attract wealthy investors as a commodity investment with potentially high returns and have, even more than gold, always evoked a strong charm towards men. Like for gold, diamonds get their value [...]
Warren Buffett Just Won a $1 Million Bet
What did Warren Buffet get for Christimas 2017 you may wonder? 1 million dollars! As the Wall street Journal reports, in 2007 Warren Buffet bet a million dollars that a low cost S&P 500 index fund would outperform a collection of a Protégé Partners hedge funds over a decade. The bet was basically pitting the basic principles of passive [...]
Mastercard adds fingerprint sensors to payment cards
Do you always forget the PIN code of your credit/debit card? Or maybe you just forget which code is for which card? Or, possibly worse, you just can’t remember you PIN so you keep it on a piece of paper that you have to always carry with you? Well good news for you! Following the trend in smartphones, doors [...]