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What do you think is more important: investing money in technology to solve the country’s energy problems or investing money in research to cure cancer and other diseases? That’s a tough one, isn’t it?

If you’re like the majority of Americans, you think it’s more important to raise energy efficiency than it is to cure cancer. I’m not sure I agree with them.

Of course, the results of this nationwide survey come as gas prices are well over $3 a gallon and continue to rocket to new highs, so it makes sense that breakthroughs in the development of alternative fuels would be high on people’s priority lists.

Men actually are more likely to choose fuel efficiency as their Number One concern whereas women are more likely to pick medical breakthroughs as most important. The environment is next as the most important area for greater investment, while defense spending had the fewest supporters.

So, energy, cancer or the environment? All good causes but if you have to pick one, which would it be?

It’s a well known fact that most Americans invest their money in American-based companies and securities rather than looking to do so abroad.  In part, this is due to a lack of knowledge about how to go about doing so and what the risk/rewards are. The purpose of this writing is to bring about awareness to a strategy being used successfully by many US investors (but not nearly enough). This type of investing can act as a nice insurance policy against the falling value of the US dollar and provide a quality return-on-investment with very little risk. 

In buying foreign bonds, you are investing in a safe but predictable investment vehicle designed to protect your principal by minimizing market risk exposures which are prevalent in most international economies. For most US investor amateurs, this is a practice they use in their own portfolios but only with domestic bonds. This practice of “hedging” with bonds is just another way to have some of your money invested safely in case of catastrophe to the equity markets. The only real risk to these types of investments is that as the dollar strengthens against the foreign exchange rate, the net return on these foreign returns gets proportionately diminished.

In order to be able to jump into foreign bond investing, you will need to either do your research and set up investment accounts in the foreign countries with which you choose to invest, or contact a broker dealer and consult with an agent who has experience in that area. They can certainly get you started in the right direction by identifying which bonds are paying the best yields and over the most favorable time periods.

One specific example I can point to right now is the consistently strong Australian Dollar in the form of Australian Bonds which is paying a very safe 6+ percent yield and was recently as high a 7.5%.   Note that these are rates you can lock in for a little as two years. Now I am not saying to dump all your money into Australian bonds, just that you may want to have a real good sit down with you advisor about making foreign bonds one component of a building a balanced investing portfolio. 

So what are you thoughts? Do you use foreign bonds or other external investments to derisively your investment allocations? What future do you see for the relative strength of the dollar over the next two years and beyond?

Trump University Takes Live Learning a Level Higher

Since the day Trump University opened its doors, students have been asking us to add more live instruction. We are starting now, with a new program of three-day seminars that we are calling Immersive Retreats.

These live retreats have been under development for months. We have worked with the Trump University faculty, with educational consultants and with Mr. Trump himself. As a result, our Immersive Retreats are something quite unique:

You have to set aside three days to attend them. That’s right, three days. They’re only for people who are willing to make a genuine commitment to immerse themselves completely in the subject they have chosen to learn. Our educational experts told us that immersion learning is the fastest, most powerful way to learn critical, time-sensitive skills, and we listened. 

You start building significant wealth today. Our Immersive Retreats teach you how to get wealthy by taking advantage of immediate events and trends. You can attend our Asset Allocation Immersive Retreat to learn how to leverage your wealth by balancing holdings in real estate, stocks and more. Or take advantage of today’s hottest real estate sectors by enrolling in our Advanced Commercial Real Estate Immersive Retreat or our Commercial and Multi-Family Master Training Immersive Retreat. You can also learn to make a fortune in foreclosures by spending just three days at our Foreclosure and Rehab Real Estate Immersive Retreat.

You learn directly from world-class experts who have made personal fortunes in the areas of their expertise. Click Here to read about them and about the retreats they have created for Trump University. They have agreed to set aside the same uninterrupted time that you will. This mutual agreement between instructor and student is something unique.

To stay up-to-date with all our Intensive Seminars, click the Live Events tab that is now located at the top of all the pages on our Website. Make it a habit to do so often, because we will be adding new events often.

You asked, and we listened. If you are genuinely committed to leverage current trends to build significant wealth today, I urge you to click here to learn more.