INVESTMENTS THAT GIVE LIFE
Today’s
investment world is turned upside down with tidal waves of shocking news about banks going bankrupt and housing markets collapsing
everywhere. Many investors and speculators say that the worst is yet to come!
So how do you
trust or find a good investment? Where can your money be safe from future distressed markets? One answer is to invest in micro business lending.
What is micro business lending? It is a practice of lending relatively small amounts to businesses in countries
like the Philippines where many small businesses are a way of life. To someone in the US for example a loan of $500.00 would
not amount to much but in some countries that would be enough to stock the shelves of a corner mini store.
Since jobs are
hard to come by in these countries making a small business is often the best solution to survival. In fact a large majority
of the people are very hard working industrious people that given half a chance will work very hard to make a living. Given
a chance to start their own business they will faithfully work at it all hours of the day. Hard work is nothing new to them
in fact they enjoy having the opportunity to work hard.
You may ask how
does micro lending work? Let’s say for example that you invest $500.00 for the small mini store.
They use your investment to stock their shelves. With good scheduling and accounting skills most of these stores can make
a reasonable profit 20, 30 even 40% per month in some cases.
Ok so now your
$500.00 is generating $100.00 to $200.00 dollars per month. In countries like what I’m talking about here $100.00 a
month is a pretty good income so let’s say they were to make $150.00 per month and pay you back at a monthly rate of
$50.00 per month plus interest so we will make it $50.00 per month for one year. That would be a return of $600.00 on a $500.00
investment. That’s 20% try to get that out of a one year CD!
Now to make things
better the business will continue to pay you a profit share based on their profits each year and you still have your investment
money to help another business get started! Can you see how your portfolio can begin to grow? Maybe after a couple years you
could have several businesses sharing their profits with you on a regular basis.
Now granted you
may be wondering what if the business should fail right? Well with a non-profit corporation like Pier Insite your investment loan is not only tax deductible but it is guaranteed to be paid back
even if the business fails. Of course you won’t have the advantage of the profit sharing portion but you will at least
get your money back.
One of the reasons
they can offer this guarantee is that they screen participants very carefully and work with them to insure their success.
With their business scheduling and accounting programs they can insure that each business will be prepared and motivated for
success.