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What My Horse Had For Breakfast
By Al Thomas
Homeowner Loans Another bill has just landed through the letterbox and your still haven`t paid the monthly direct debt to the utility firm. You`ll have to sort out funds for your credit cards next week and then there are the catalogue payments to make. It`s the same story each and every month where you struggle to keep on top of your regular payments. Having taken out dribs and drabs of loads over the last few years you now have to pay a number of companies back. What if you could amalgamate all of your loans into one fixed monthly payment? Suppose you could reduce the amount that you pay each month by spreading the payments over a longer period of time. Look into the various Homeowner Loansthat are available at the moment and you could end up paying less in repayments each and every month. Price comparison sites are the places to look if you want one of the Homeowner Loans. They`ll scour the marketplace searching for Homeowner Loansthat will suit your individual needs. Combine all of your debts into one slightly larger loan amount and you should have more money each month that can be put away for a rainy day. Article02.html Many people in the UK, in fact as many as one in three UK taxpayers have paid too much tax! Greer & Taylor LLP a respected and trusted accountancy service provider has just launched a new website The Taxation People which can be found at www.thetaxationpeople.com the new online tax refund service is dedicated to getting the maximum legal tax refunds for indviduals whatever the circumstances on a `No Win No Fee` basis The Taxation People offer a online service, with a simple and easy to follow process that will guide you along the way as you get the refund you are entitled to. In the `my account` section of their site you can track the progress of your refund application and ask questions using a secure service. I would urge you to check out www.thetaxationpeople.com, where you can enlist the help of the The Taxation People who will get you the Tax Refund you are entitled to. Greer & Taylor LLP will be following up the success of their Tax Refund service The Taxation People by launching a cost effective Self Assesment Service, keep an eye on www.greer-taylor.com for more information.
Kinda reminds me of what my broker (horse trainer) told me to do when I was selecting a mutual fund to buy. He said to check out what was in the fund (the mixture of stocks, like my horse?s breakfast) and to see if there was a good fund manager (the jockey). I did what he said and carefully read the annual report and the prospectus too. Sounds great so I bought it. What I can?t understand is I did all the things the horse trainer said I should and "Rocket", my horse?s name, still came in 6th in an 8-horse race. All I wanted him to do is come in first and I can?t say I?m crazy about that mutual fund either. That fund has a 5-star rating, is managed by one of the great names on Wall Street and has 60 of the best known company stocks I can think of and yet it is going down. I am doing everything that conventional wisdom says I should, but I continue to lose. Is there and answer? I am not so sure about the horse, but I know the conventional wisdom of Wall Street is mostly smoke and mirrors. I read the Annual Report, but I forgot that "annual" means that much of the information is over a year old. How much help can that be? And I forgot that the prospectus was not written to enlighten me, but for the bean counters in Washington. It is supposed to make available to me all the financial information I need to make a decision to buy. All of this research is nonsense, as it will not tell me the one most important thing I need to know - will the price increase so I can make a profit? Unfortunately, my broker is not going to be much help here either as he has been trained by the Wall Street method which has nothing to do with making money or protecting my capital. Anyone can look up all kinds of information, but when it comes down to it ask this question: Will knowing all that stuff make me any money? I always figure that if I can find it out it isn?t worth knowing any more because that information is already reflected in the price of the stock or mutual fund. So why bother? Wall Street brokerage companies want you to do all that "research" because if what you buy doesn?t go up they can say you knew everything about it before you bought it. It wasn?t their fault you did not understand it. I think I?ll sell that horse. And quit listening to my broker. 
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