Showing posts with label Precious Metals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Precious Metals. Show all posts

Monday, 9 April 2012

NTR-OPM Merger

SV has heard through the grapevine that NTR Metals & Ohio Precious Metals have strategically merged as of last week.

According to NTR’s website, NTR is a global company refining over 30 million pounds of metal each year. They are involved in commercial refining, industrial recycling and refining, precious metals market making, and bullion minting.

Ohio Precious Metals was founded more than 35 years ago and refine gold, silver, platinum and palladium. OPM receives their materials from jewelry, pawn, coin, photographic, electronic, secondary refining/collecting and banking industries.

According to an anonymous source, the two companies have merged. Further details are currently unavailable. READ ON!

Thursday, 5 April 2012

How To Retire

CNN Money, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal all publish articles soothing their reader, reassuring them that, despite the turbulent course of history, retirement in the modern age is still a possibility—so long as you play by their rules.

Oftentimes, such articles come across to the lackadaisical reader as reasonable, suggesting to folks they simply put x-amount of money away for saving per month. When taken in the context of the rest of mainstream articles—i struggle to call them „ARTicles“—then the intended takehome point is clear. Buy paper, feed the beast!

In one particular recent CNN article, it was stated that just 8% a year starting in one’s early thirties can turn into a seven figure bank account by retirement.

But, as we have bore witness to in guinea pig Greece and the western world over, retirement is becoming something grandpa and grandma had, but not something for the their progeny.

Regardless, there still exist options for fostering retirement, and I’ve hereafter listed some of my recommended techniques for ensuring a comfortable retirement. Read on!