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Is real (physical) money traded during online trading? | I think you need to define what you mean by "buy currency online using some online forex trading platform" ... In large Fx trades, real money [you mean actual electronic money, as there is not paper that travels these days]... The Fx market is quite wide with all kinds of trades. There are quite a few Fx transactions... | Utilize your financial knowledge, give your answer or opinion to the input question or subject . Answer format is not limited. |
Is real (physical) money traded during online trading? | This is my two cents (pun intended). It was too long for a comment, so I tried to make it more of an answer. I am no expert with investments or Islam: Anything on a server exists 'physically'. It exists on a hard drive, tape drive, and/or a combination thereof. It is stored as data, which on a hard drive are small ... | Offer your insights or judgment on the input financial query or topic using your financial expertise. Reply as normal question answering |
Pensions, annuities, and “retirement” | There are broadly two kinds of pension: final salary / defined benefit, and money purchase. The text you quote above, where it talks about "pension" it is referring to a final salary / defined benefit scheme. In this type of scheme you earn a salary of £X during your working life, and you are then entitled to a propor... | Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open. |
Pensions, annuities, and “retirement” | Pension in this instance seems to mean pension income (as opposed to pension pot). This money would be determined by whatever assets are being invested in. It may be fixed, it may be variable. Completely dependant on the underlying investments. An annuity is a product. In simple terms, you hnd over a lump sum of cash a... | Share your insights or perspective on the financial matter presented in the input. |
Pensions, annuities, and “retirement” | With an annuity, you invest directly into an annuity with money you have earned as wages/salary/etc. You pay for it, and trade your payments into the annuity for guaranteed payments from the annuity issuer in the future. The more you pay in before the annuity payments begin, the more you will receive for your annuity p... | Offer your thoughts or opinion on the input financial query or topic using your financial background. |
Pensions, annuities, and “retirement” | An annuity is a product. In simple terms, you hand over a lump sum of cash and receive an agreed annual income until you die. The underlying investment required to reach that income level is not your concern, it's the provider's worry. So there is a huge mount of security to the retiree in having an annuity. It is wort... | Utilize your financial knowledge, give your answer or opinion to the input question or subject . Answer format is not limited. |
What does it mean to a life insurance policy holder to convert from a stock to mutual insurance company? | A stock insurance company is structured like a “normal” company. It has shareholders (that are the company's investors), who elect a board of directors, who select the senior executive(s), who manage the people who run the actual company. The directors (and thus the executives and employees) have a legal responsibility... | Offer your insights or judgment on the input financial query or topic using your financial expertise. Reply as normal question answering |
Can capital loss in traditional IRA and Roth IRA be used to offset taxable income? | Edited in response to JoeTaxpayer's comment and OP Tim's additional question. To add to and clarify a little what littleadv has said, and to answer OP Tim's next question: As far as the IRS is concerned, you have at most one Individual Retirement Account of each type (Traditional, Roth) though the money in each IRA ca... | Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open. |
Can capital loss in traditional IRA and Roth IRA be used to offset taxable income? | No, you cannot. If you withdraw everything from all your Roth IRA's and end up with less than the total basis - you can deduct the difference on your schedule A (at the time of the last withdrawal) as an itemized deduction (as misc. deductions with 2% AGI cap). Regular IRA's are pre-tax, you cannot deduct anything from... | Share your insights or perspective on the financial matter presented in the input. |
Selling a stock for gain to offset other stock loss | Long term gains are taxed at 15% maximum. Losses, up to the $3K/yr you cited, can offset ordinary income, so 25% or higher, depending on your income. Better to take the loss that way. With my usual disclaimer: Do not let the tax tail wag the investing dog. | Offer your thoughts or opinion on the input financial query or topic using your financial background. |
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