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Yum Money Hound Review
Top water bass fishing can be some of the most exciting action you will ever have on the lake. When the fish are hitting the top, the action can be fast and furious all day long. Sometimes though, even though they are hitting the top, they are still sitting in beds of grass or lily pads.
The Yum money hound will let you to make the most of your quality time on the lake, because it allows you to rig the lure in a weedless style.
Not only do you lose more lures, but you have to clean your hooks on just about every cast! Cleaning hooks is not the way I like to spend my time on the lake. That’s why I bought the Yum money hound.
There aren’t any top water, hard plastic baits that let you fish in the weeds without fear like the Yum money hound will. The great part is, the weedless feature of the bait, without sacrificing the action of a hard plastic.
To get the most out of the bait, you will need two things: a simple razor blade, and an EWG (extra wide gap) hook.
With the razor blade, cut carefully along the narrow bottom strip of the bait. Now rig the EWG hook through the nose, and back through the body of the bait almost like you were rigging a worm.
These two steps will help you in two different ways. The EWG is a wide gap hook, which lets you set the hook more effectively, and will give you a better strike to catch ratio. Cutting the bottom of the bait lets the hook penetrate through the bait, into the lip of the fish much easier when you set the hook.
You can still do well if you don’t cut the bait, but you must have the wide gap hook. Otherwise, you will be setting the hook, and losing a lot of fish during the fight.
Trade Show Booths
A great booth must be functional in its application, eye catching and budget friendly- says Chad Rogowicz, Chief Operating Officer of ExhibitTrader.com. Our exhibit designers understand these fundamental principles and specialize in creating environments that will amaze visitors and attendees at your next trade show. With the largest online selection of trade show booths in the industry, our design team can create an exhibit that combines the -WoW- factor with functionality while at the same time adhering to a customers budget parameters.
With the majority of our trade show booths built here in the USA and backed with lifetime warranties, we can guarantee the highest quality exhibit components available on the market. All of our products are constructed of durable, light weight materials to help keep shipping cost and drayage fess at a minimum. With the largest online selection of trade show booths available, we offer displays of all shapes and sizes. From Banner Stands and Pop Up Displays to Custom Modular Exhibits and Hybrid Display Systems, we are sure to have the right solution to fit your trade show marketing objectives.
We at ExhibitTrader.com strongly believe in the value of large, colorful, high impact graphics. When designing an exhibit, we incorporate visually stimulating, informative graphic design into the exhibit system. Our graphic designers work hand in hand with our customer in order to meet their overall branding objectives. Once a graphics design is selected, the design goes to our graphic production facility. We deploy all types of graphics on our display systems. Backlit graphics, dye sub fabric graphics, inkjet mural graphic panels, stretch fabrics, eco friendly graphics and even simple sticky back vinyl are just a few of the graphics applications we use on our trade show booths.
ExhibitTrader.com prides itself in providing full turnkey solutions to our customers. From the initial design, through fabrication, to shipping, and set up at the show, we handle all aspects of our customers trade show exhibiting needs. Not only do we build great trade show booths, but our customer service is second to none. Visit us on the web at www.exhibittrader.com and look through hundreds of display options, chat with our design consultants, and enjoy the best customer experience on the web.
Retirement Planning for Small Business 3 options
Wondering if your business is too small for a group retirement plan?
One of the keys to attracting and retaining top employees is to offer a high-quality retirement plan. A group savings plan conveniently helps employees save money for the future while reducing and deferring taxes today. Plus, the investment you make in a group retirement plan is an investment you make in your organization, your employees and your reputation. Everyone’s a winner.
Three options stand-out depending on what you want to accomplish with your plan and how much flexibility you need. These are: 401(k) plans, SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs.
The 401(k) Offers the Most Flexibility and High Contribution Limits The traditional 401(k) is probably the most widely known retirement product on the market. It’s the fully loaded, high performance SUV of retirement plans. It’s generally defined as one that enables a business owner and employees to make consistent, tax-deferred contributions during the length of their careers.
SEP IRAs are Pretty Easy to Start and 100% Funded by the Employer Simplified Employee Pensions, more commonly referred to as SEPs, are also a popular retirement plan choice as they offer a contribution limit that’s similar to a 401(k). It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of a 401(k) plan, but it’s got a good engine under the hood. One of the most important things to understand about SEPs is that 100 percent of the contributions made are by the employer (no employee contributions allowed) and these dollars are immediately vested for the employee.
The SIMPLE IRA is a Solid, Affordable Third Option
The SIMPLE IRA’s name is a bit misleading (it actually stands for Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees). While both employer and employee can contribute to the plan, the employer must match and matching is vested immediately.
If you do decide that you want to offer a retirement plan, you are definitely going to need some professional advice and guidance. Pension rules are complex, and the tax aspects of retirement plans can also be confusing.
As a financial planning and wealth management professional firm, Mintco Financial has been helping its clients effectively plan for comfortable retirements.
Michael Minter, as a managing partner of Mintco Financial, is a trusted investment management professional who carries more than 16 years of experience in this challenging career field.
Throughout his professional history, Michael Minter has gained strong insight into what skills and knowledge is necessary to perform investment management, wealth building services, small business development and retirement plans.
Michael MInter is also author of the book I-Plan, a guide for your financial security.
Call Michael Minter at 813-964-7100 at Mintco Financial.
Retirement Planning for Small Business
How To Get Medical Insurance For A Surrogate Mother
Getting surrogate insurance coverage, that is, medical insurance to cover the surrogate pregnancy, can be tricky. There are a few different options for obtaining practical surrogacy insurance, depending on the situation of the surrogate mother and intended parents.
First, if at all possible, plan to use the surrogate mother’s existing health insurance policy, probably thorough her employer or her husband’s. Most health insurance policies will cover a surrogate mother, as their own insured, while she is pregnant. It is frankly none of the insurance company’s business how she got pregnant!
But some insurance companies are going out of their way to prevent surrogate motherhood. Take a copy of the surrogate’s insurance benefits booklet to your surrogacy attorney to verify if you can use this policy.
If that doesn’t work, there are a few more ways to obtain surrogate insurance coverage. The easiest, and least expensive at this point is to purchase a regular individual plan from a local insurance agency. Watch, again, for exclusions with surrogate motherhood. Also, sometimes these plans come with a 6-12 month waiting period before they will pay for pregnancy.
It probably should be mentioned that the insurance policy an intended parent carries, most likely through their employment, will not cover the pregnancy of the surrogate mother, regardless of the fact that it is their biological child. The surrogate mother is not the insured party.
There are some surrogacy insurance policies specifically designed for surrogate mothers. These policies really only insure a worst case scenario event, cost thousands to purchase, and come with deductibles in the $5,000-10,000 range. Some intended parents choose to add this sort of policy onto an existing surrogate insurance coverage.
But what happens when a surrogate mother and her intended parents believe that they are covered, get pregnant, and then find out there was an error and her insurance company refuses to cover the pregnancy? Or what if she loses the coverage halfway through the surrogate pregnancy?
There are not too many private insurance companies out there willing to insure a preexisting condition, such as an already pregnant woman. (And if you find one, please let me know!) The options are few in this situation. The intended parents can either pay for the rest of the medical bills in cash, hopefully negotiating a better rate directly with hospitals and doctor’s offices, or they can purchase a discount medical card.
A discount medical card will save the intended parents some considerable money, but it is not the same as having actual surrogate insurance coverage. Still, it’s a terrific option for those in this sort of sticky situation, and can be obtained after the surrogate mother is already pregnant.
Day Trading – Is Forex Easier To Trade Than Stock Market Indices
There are many professional day traders out there who focus all their efforts on trading a particular instrument, whether it’s a currency pair or a stock market index. I personally have attempted to trade both in the past so I can speak from experience when I say that in general it is much easier to trade forex.
The main reason why is because when you trade one of the major currency pairs you can usually concentrate purely on technical analysis. In other words when you trade the intraday charts you can trade the forex pairs around pivot points and areas of support and resistance because the price movements can be quite predictable. However when you trade stock indices such as the FTSE 100 or the Dow Jones, for instance, the price movements are not always so predictable.
That’s obviously because these indices are made up of various different stocks and they don’t always rise and fall in tandem with each other. Yes you may get some days when all the constituents trade higher or lower, but most of the time certain sectors will be strong, whilst others may be flat or trading lower. Plus there are often occasions when individual stocks release some news concerning their company and as a result the share price moves independently of the wider market.
As a result of all this, you don’t always get as many predictable bounces off key support and resistance levels, for example, as you do when you trade the major forex pairs. Therefore they are much harder to trade with any confidence because you can never be sure of how the price will react around these key levels.
Another point worth making is that when you trade forex you can pretty much guarantee that you will have a large trading range for many of the most popular currency pairs, such as the GBP/USD, EUR/USD and GBP/JPY pairs, for any given trading day. The same cannot be said for the various stock market indices, however, because there are some days when the FTSE 100, and even the Dow Jones, will trade within a very narrow trading range.
So the point I want to get across is that on the whole it’s a lot easier to day trade the forex markets than the stock market indices. They respond very well to technical analysis, whether it’s fibonacci levels, pivot points, or simply trend lines and basic levels of support and resistance, whereas the same cannot always be said about the indices because of how they are derived.
NJ Bankruptcy Attorneys and Loan Modification Lawyers Help Those in Financial Distress
In these tough economic times, nearly anyone could fall into financial hardship. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding a person’s situation, financial obligations do not let up. Very easily, a person can feel too far behind to ever catch up.
Whether medical problems, extended unemployment, or other unforeseen circumstances are the cause of financial distress, loan modification lawyers can help. Loan modification lawyers can work with creditors to renegotiate the terms of a loan.
While loan modification lawyers in NJ may work in the same practice as bankruptcy attorneys, but generally have a different emphasis. Normally, loan modification lawyers seek to prevent bankruptcy or foreclosure.
Loan modification lawyers know that creditors, especially the holder of a home mortgage, want to avoid the bankruptcy and foreclosure process. If a NJ bank has to foreclose on a property and work with bankruptcy lawyers, they will lose a lot of money.
NJ bankruptcy lawyers and NJ bankruptcy attorneys know that the foreclosure process itself is very expensive, so most banks would like to avoid it if at all possible. Loan modification lawyers help take advantage of this fact to negotiate loan conditions that allow the client to meet payments.
Loan modification lawyers can help a client ask for smaller payments spread over a longer time, or for a lower interest rate. Taking this step can keep a client and family in their home, and can be a responsible step to take at the earlier stages of financial distress.
NJ bankruptcy attorneys can help clients if loan modification offers are rejected or were not sufficient to alleviate financial distress. If a person simply cannot meet his or her financial obligations, NJ bankruptcy attorneys can serve as guides through the bankruptcy process.
Like the loan modification experts, NJ bankruptcy attorneys can work to keep families in their homes. NJ bankruptcy lawyers, however, must work within the court system to meet this goal. Once in court, a judge must approve the NJ bankruptcy lawyer’s plan to pay debtors.
NJ bankruptcy lawyers can ask for different arrangements, depending on circumstances. They can request that payments be adjusted, or that debt be absolved with the sale of the property.
Unfortunately, without NJ bankruptcy attorneys or NJ bankruptcy lawyers, the process can be very complicated. NJ bankruptcy lawyers specialize in this legal area, and can simplify and explain all options and proceedings. Clients also appreciate NJ bankruptcy attorneys’ assistance with completing and submitting paperwork.
About Us:
At the Law Offices of Kasuri & Levy, LLC, we have over 45 years of experience. Our loan modification lawyers have an outstanding reputation, and are known for handling complex matters with a comforting and personalized touch. We focus on providing quality service to each client, rather than handling client matters with quantity in mind. Learn more at www.kasuriandlevy.com.
Consider your investment plan carefully
Retirement is a necessary event which everyone faces in life. When one thinks of his income after retirement, several options arise. During his service, the person has to save some amount every month for his retired life. The person invests this amount in Annuity schemes which fetch him some periodical income so that after retirement he can lead a normal life. Before choosing the appropriate investment plan, the person has to evaluate his needs. His immediate commitments like education of children, expenses on health, renovation of house, legal expenses if any are some of the factors which may require careful consideration. The next question that he has to consider is the marriage of children, tour plans, etc.
Where to invest the savings?
This is a vexing question that needs careful consideration. Many employees invest the amount with their employers. In return for this investment, the employer normally gives the employee a fixed amount periodically as Annuity. Of course in the beginning the Annuity which the employee gets would seem to be reasonable. But with inflation, the fixed annuity will not be sufficient in the coming years. Even with an inflation of about 3% every year, in about 4 to 5 years the person will feel the financial crunch.
The alternative is to invest in Stock market. But this requires specialization and careful market analysis. Everyone may not have this quality. So this is a risky investment.
As an alternative, the employee can consider the investment plans offered by different investment companies. Many of the investment agencies have several attractive plans like Annuity with health insurance coverage for the spouse, burglary insurance, etc. Such investment could be another better option to choose.
Some persons may consider investing in real estate. But if such investment is made, the person may not have fixed returns unless the investment fetches him some amount by way of rent. If such investment is made when there is a favorable market, the value of real estate would appreciate and this may fetch attractive returns.
However, as far as investment plan is concerned, all that matters is the wisdom of the investor. Wherever necessary, he can take the guidance of professional investment planners who would be able to guide the investor appropriately.
Why To Select A Carrier With Oicl, Saraswat Bank & Idbi Bank Recruitment 2013
The next generation is more inclined to serve in the corporate. The fresh graduates are now more inclined to take up the insurance and banking jobs. The young graduates dream to earn a white collar job which gives a hefty pay package. Most of the students with the commerce background always prefer to go for the banking and insurance sector jobs since they are able to utilize their knowledge in a better manner in the financial sector. In the recent times, the finance industry has been passing through a tough phase; but as per the experts the banking and insurance jobs are rising with progress in the recent years.
Most of the jobs of Oriental Insurance Company Limited (IOCL), which can be well availed through the OICL Recruitment 2013, are expected to be of administrative nature. There are many jobs for back office support. According to the market studies, there are at least 65% of jobs, which are targeting for the back office support. The banks offer the best opportunity to recruit the fresh graduates and thus with a better working conditions banking jobs are now topping the list of preference for youngsters in India. The educational qualification required for the IDBI Bank Recruitment 2013 is normally graduation and above. These jobs are the most in demand for those candidates who graduate from the management schools. Moreover the jobs in the banks may fell odd during initial stages (as you are not aware of the exact banking procedures), but the job security is tremendous and it offers you a sector to learn and implement your ideas at random. You can easily get the promotions according to your performance, as well.
The banks fill the vacant positions by hiring the students right from the campus and thus the banks are able to get the best students with excellent qualifications. It is a dream of every individual to work in the banks. In India there is no dearth of jobs in the banks. With the expansion of the banks and also the finance as well as insurance sector, the numbers of jobs available in the banks have increased a lot. In the Saraswat Bank Recruitment 2013 there are several openings available which are suitable for almost all categories of youngsters. All the private sector banks offer excellent pay package according to the profile of jobs. Even if the applicants are freshers, they can get a good start in their career with banking and finance sector.
The perks offered by the banks and insurance sector are normally performance driven and are considered excellent. Even there are many opportunities these days with nationalized banks and with a seer dedication and confidence, one can find a good career in banking and insurance sector as a beginning. With versatile expansions and rigorous growth in these two prominent sectors of banking and insurance, the career opportunities galore and you can always have a good start as a foundation step for your career.
Unit Trusts And Open Ended Investment Companies Collective Investments
Unit Trusts and Open Ended Investment Companies Collective Investments
Unit trusts and Open Ended Investment Companies (OEICs) are types of collective investments. In a collective investment, each individual investment is pooled with every other individual investment and then invested as a whole by the manager of the investment.
Different unit trust and OEIC funds invest in different asset classes – shares, bonds, cash and property. Some funds focus on just one asset class, while others invest in two or more. Irrespective of the asset class or classes they invest in, most fund managers will hold a wide spread of investments in their chosen asset class. That is one of the reasons why unit trusts and OEICs are popular with investors spreading investments across a range of businesses can help reduce a funds volatility and the risks for its investors.
Although unit trusts and OEICs are both open-ended investments, where the size of the fund varies according to market supply and demand, there are a number of key differences between the two types of funds.
Investors in unit trusts buy and sell a portion of the total fund in the form of units. The price unit holders initially pay for units (the bid price) is higher than the price they can sell the units for (the offer price): the difference between the two prices is known as the spread. In order for unit holders to make a return on their investment, the closing bid price must always be higher than the opening offer price. An OEIC fund on the other hand, does not trade in units but issues shares to its investors and is therefore an investment company – a less complex entity than a unit trust. Shares in an OEIC have a single price, which is determined by the value of the fund’s underlying investments. All shares in an OEIC are bought and sold at one single price, so theres no bid/offer spread to take into account.
The value of an investment in a unit trust or OEIC will vary according to the total value of the fund, which is determined by the performance of the investments the fund manager makes. Unit trusts and OEICs usually impose an up-front charge and annual management fees, some of which are declared as a percentage of the investment, while others are built into the price.
Improve Bank Debt Recovery Efforts By Implementing These Techniques
Bank debt collection in increasing, largely because of a recession and economic crisis affecting consumers and markets around the globe. Banks and credit unions are employing new tools and strategies to improve bank debt recovery.
Because of years of steadily rising consumer debt, banks are facing ever growing credit card delinquencies, checking account and loan defaults, as consumers struggle to pay for the necessities. Financial institutions are trying new strategies to help with bank debt collection efforts.
Listed are a few recommended bank debt collection tips, which will help improve your debt recovery efforts.
Provide alternative payment plans for customers going through financial difficulties.
. Create “hardship” programs for borrowers who are late with their payments.
. Extend or lower payments, interest rates, or lower fees when you anticipate customer payment problems.
Create communications channels where customers can openly discuss their issues. By proactively reaching customers early, you can prevent larger problems later.
In addition to your present internal debt collection processes, these suggestions are designed to “flag” would be problems much sooner, and prevent them from becoming much larger problems later on.
When To Consider Outsourcing Bank Debt Recovery to Collection Agencies
It is critically important that banks and credit unions experiencing growing debt collection issues quickly rid themselves of “problem” delinquencies, and outsource them to a collection agency.
Using many of the earlier suggested strategies, you will be able to identify early on, and be able to distinguish the customers that you can work with via payment arrangements, and the more challenging customers.
These more challenging accounts must be identified early on in the process, and outsourced to a collection agency. Failure to do so decreases the possibility of ever getting paid on them. It will also cost you much more in wasted time, resources, etc. Failing to do so, not only decreases your likelihood of getting paid on them at all, it costs you far more in time, resources, etc.
Some collection agencies offer programs designed to restore negative accounts and retain banking customers before the account is closed or charged off. In fact, research shows customer retention equaling 70% or better can be achieved, as well as restoration of negative account balances when contacted pre-charge off.
The crucial element is reaching these customers before the account is charged off, not afterward.In addition to the incentive to clear up their negative account balance, it is also proven that after a past due account is closed and charged off, these delinquent customers typically seek new bank accounts at other institutions.
Once this happens, there is little interest in that customer bringing their delinquent, charged off account, current.