A stock is said to have been delisted when it is prohibited from trading in a major stock exchange. Delisted stocks become penny stocks relegated to over-the-counter markets. Delisting occurs when a company fails to comply with the listing requirements of the exchange, including meeting minimum share prices, market capitalization, and sales levels.

Stock exchanges have stringent requirements.

If you're interested in investing, but are reluctant to fund companies whose practices you disagree with (either on moral, ethical, or environmental grounds), it's probably worth pointing out to you that you have options. And those options are related to the concept of Socially Responsible Investing, or SRI.

Portfolio managers that are involved in SRI (also known as green portfolio managers) tend to direct the funds that they're managing toward competitive public companies that are meeting a certain number of conditions that have been previously set and depend largely on the particular firm's ideals.

Most of the off shore advertised properties I see (and not all of them of course) are in boom markets. In other words, markets that are doing so well that the prices are high and will go even higher.

Which spell out immediately the problem: PROPERTY SPECULATION.

I find it hard to understand that most people still do not see nor understand the difference between property speculating and property investing.

Hedge funds are similar to mutual funds but with several important differences. First, hedge funds are private funds that are typically only open to wealthy, experienced investors. Second, these funds generally take on higher risk using a variety of strategies with the goal of gaining a higher return than mutual funds. Third, hedge funds are not regulated by the U.

Safe investing is a hot topic in 2008. With markets in meltdown and recession upon us everyone is looking for safety rather than profits and returns. Are we doomed to poor returns in the recession just to improve the safety for our money?

There's lots of places to invest our money of course, traditionally with various levels of safety. The stock market, real estate, bonds, CDs, currencies and so on.

Self directed IRA rollovers. Are your eyes glazing over already? Too hard and don't want to know? If you're setting up a self directed IRA you will probably need to know what a self directed IRA rollover is, and now is a good time to start.

And don't worry, it's not as hard as you may think.

Simply speaking, a self directed IRA rollover is a transfer of assets from a tax deferred retirement program directing those assets into your own personally managed IRA, or Individual Retirement Account.

Retiring soon? You need a self managed IRA. Self managed IRAs, or what can be sometimes be called self directed IRAS, are by far the best management vehicle for soon to be retirees, or for that matter anyone who plans to retire in the future, and that's all of us.

Retiring in the future is going to be a problem for those who want to retire comfortably.

Just a couple of decades ago it would have been almost unfathomable for the retail investor to consider generating consistent returns above 20% per year. Indeed, those who competed in arguably the most competitive financial market place, the stock market, were considered gurus when they beat the S&P 500 year in and year out.

Others, such as Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis and George Roberts made a name for themselves in private equity as did Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman with the Blackstone Group.

Some real estate gurus make tax lien investing sound like it's a sure thing. That you're guaranteed to make huge interest rates and that it's "government guaranteed". Unfortunately for you, they leave out a few facts and are stretching the truth quite a bit.

First you have to understand that tax sales are auctions and in most state those extremely high interest rates are bid down to extremely low rates.

Most lenders in the United States have a clear understanding of the business model of traditional businesses such as retail stores, manufacturers, tire stores, etc. These same lenders would be able to quickly determine if your small business qualified for a loan or line of credit.

The telecommunications industry is complex and unique, and traditional lenders usually do not have the expertise in working with independent telecoms.