Fresh Property Co., gives you the opportunity to invest in the high growth real estate markets of such countries as Albania, Brazil and Argentina. They are offering investors international properties chosen for a high rate of return on investment and maximum capital growth from 15 – 18% per annum.

Investors can buy overseas property in a variety of high growth locations with Fresh Property Co. as a partner. Using their experiences in overseas and emerging markets, they can provide you with the research and due diligence that can reduce your risks in these locations.

Here is the “Featured Investment of the Month” from Fresh Property Co. as an example of what you can expect investing with FPC. This property is located in Saranda Vista, Albania as is projected to have a capital growth of 20% in 2008.
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Investors interested in an income generating alternative investment may want to consider adding real estate trust deeds to your investment portfolio. Diamond Bay Investments, Inc. based out of Las Vegas NV is an example of a company that provides services for trust deed investors. They offer high yield investments in which you could receive 12% or higher returns per year.

As in most cases, the investments are only available to the residents of the state in which the company is licensed to do business in. Currently, DBI’s trust deeds investment are only being offered to investors in the state of Nevada. The information is being provided here as an example for those who want to seek out similar companies that offer trust deed investments available in their state or location.
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Investors are advised to be prudent in making any decisions on investing with a company called SwissCash and SwissMutualFund. Should you run across their sites online or get invited (referred) by current members of this investment to join them, please consider the facts in the next few paragraphs. There are many red flags that should be a warning sign for anyone contemplating on parting with their money.

The heat is definitely on for both SwissMutualFund/Swisscash as current investigations and litigations are in the works from various international governmental agencies. Most notably, the Malaysian government has blocked a number of websites connected with SwissMutualFund/Swisscash (swisscashguide.com, swisscash.net, swisscash.biz and swissmutualfund.biz) citing the websites offers an illegal investment scheme.
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Rare stamp investing is one of those rare gems in the alternative investment arena that have not quite hit the mainstream. Savvy investors who have uncovered this little secret have been quietly making great returns on their investments. With an average annual return of 10% for the past 50 years, they have good reasons to keep it under the radar and why Salomon Brothers rate rare stamps among the top four investments of the Twentieth Century.

There are many reasons why rare stamps make such a good investment. Among the reasons, there is a high demand from a huge emerging market and coupled with a diminishing supply of investment quality stamps, prices will continue to rise. Rare stamps are a tangible asset that is worth more in weight than any other commodity.
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It has been almost five years since the current Iraqi Dinar (IQD) was introduced by the Coalition Provisional Authority some time between October 2003 and January of 2004. Since that time, a multitude of websites appeared and heavily promoted in the investment of the new Iraqi currency as a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a fortune.

As it stands, only the promoters have made a killing in the selling of the currency by charging a premium to what the actual exchange rate of the currency is. Extrapolating past data and current data, one can assume that the “investors” have not broken even or may still be at a loss with their investment.
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Few people know about a class of Canadian public companies that trade on the stock market called Royalty Trusts. They trade like normal stocks; however, Royalty Trusts is a special business entity in Canada which receives special tax breaks from the Canadian government. In exchange for these tax breaks, they are required by law to pay out at least 90% of all earnings to shareholders.

Canadian Royalty Trusts are created so that the dividends are taxed as personal income and the corporation is not taxed at the corporate level, therefore avoiding double taxation. This is a great income generator for investors as many of the Royalty Trusts are paying double digit dividends annually just by holding these stocks, whether the stock goes up or down.
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Do you think that you can do a better job at managing a stock portfolio than the blue suits on Wall Street? There are thousands of smart investors around the world who are beating and out performing the professional money managers every day. Many are proving their investment skills by sharing their stock trading decisions with other members of Covestor LLC.

Covestor.com is a real-trade sharing service for self-investors who would like to share their trading decisions, gain some recognition and even earn some fees should they choose by helping others. What does this all have to do with you making some money investing? There are two scenarios in which you can capitalize in this service.
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If you are looking for an alternative investment with currency trading that is managed and having a low entry point, you may want to take a peek at FXTSP.com. Unlike the majority of hedge funds that requires an investor to be “accredited” or having a high net worth to be able to participate; a managed FOREX fund can be accessible to the smaller investor.

FXTSP offers two different FX managed account funds that have a minimum of only $1000 to open either account. The first one is the Sentiment Fund which has returned 31.30% YTD and has a medium risk factor. The second fund, Sentiment Aggressive has returned 52.11% YTD and has a high risk factor.
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