Every investment portfolio will normally include at least some property. After all we all need somewhere to live. Overseas property investment can be lucrative with returns well over what is considered the norm in the UK. Rental yields in Thailand are around 8-10% per annum so it is easy to see why it is so popular. On top of that Thailand is a world class tourist destination attracting tens of millions of tourists each year to the hot spots of Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Hua Hin and Koh Samui. You can choose between a condo/apartment or a luxury detached house with a private swimming pool. Opportunites exist alongside the housing development companies for add on services like rain gutters, swimming pools, kitchens and bathrooms. New investors will often want to fit their house out with european style modern conveniences. Where there is demand there will be companies ready to meet them.

As the worlds desire for everything green continues the keen investors eye follows the trend. Ethical or green investments are hot right now as investors seek to capitalise on the large returns possible through this medium. Interest is high in forestry investment and the associated investments of timber, hardwood and jatropha. Some investors are also looking at the possible changes this might have on companies that require natural resources for their products for example handmade greeting cards require a large amount of mulberry paper and art paper and companies selling any type of cards could be affected by a shortage in natural resource. Greeting card wholesalers are at the front line and deal directly with the companies that produce the raw materials. That aside the trend for green investments seems to be growing so could form an important part of your portfolio.

If you are a forex broker than relies on new trading members through your website than chances are someone in your team has some search engine optimsation (SEO) experience. However if you not on the first page for your target keywords then you are probablygetting little if any web traffic. The most popular search engine is Google and the way Google ranks website is based on both the onsite content and the number and quality of incoming links. Of course some will tell you that if you have great content then people will naturally link to your site. Whilst that is true they need to find the content in the first place! So if you are checking your rankings  and you find that you are still not where you want to be and you’ve reached the stage where you don’t know what else to do then it could be time to hire a freelance seo consultant. Getting some fresh eyes looking at your site and free analysis may be all is require to figure out what you are missing. And chance are it will be links! However this is where it gets tricky the vast majority of people are completely misguided when it comes to link building. Its no surprise because of all the conflicting information out there.

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It’s been a very subdued start to the week due to UK and US public holidays; but the lack of movement in currency markets is perhaps surprising considering it’s been another weekend dogged by credit downgrades to Spain’s AAA status by Fitch, and indeed new worries about France’s resilience to dreaded ratings agency downgrades. With the underlying discontent in Europe still showing no credible signs of letting up, investors can expect EUR rallies to be labored, and whilst a positioning correction could indeed come any day now, we still favour selling after rallies rather than trying to ride them higher. Whilst low liquidity makes for slow trading this Monday morning, there is still a decent itinerary of economic data coming up both today and tomorrow that could spice things up. The main focus for us will be on Canadian quarterly GDP (Q1) which is expected to accelerate to 5.8% QoQ annualized compared to the previous 5.0%reading. Recent comments from BoC Governor Carney suggested that Q1 growth was ticking above the bank’s original forecasts, and the timing of the release is made all the more significant considering that tomorrow brings the BoC’s latest rate decision. Given the strong recovery in Canadian fundamentals, the prevailing dovishness from the BoC had been a cause of some frustration and bewilderment in recent months, but last month’s meeting did give CAD bulls some tantalizing bait. Recall that in the previous statement accompanying the on-hold decision, the central bank chose to drop its conditional commitment to low rates until the end of June – an omission that has now prompted consensus predictions to be for a hike of 25bps to 0.50% this time around. We do like CAD as one of the most likely currencies to perform robustly in the remainder of the year, but with a hike already priced in for tomorrow, there is clearly some scope for disappointment. As with many risk trades (and particularly as a commodity currency), there are big caveats for the CAD outlook should the economic problems dogging Europe and fragile global recovery deteriorate once more, and given the BoC’s penchant for being cautious coming out of this recession, expect significant CAD selling should they keep rates on hold and adopt the wait-and-see strategy.