38 links have been added on 13 ideas about #investment.
  1. There are some alternatives, but a dedicated site would be good considering this and the advantage the dragons get over the inventors…

  2. Totally agree, and that advantage of the information is an edge, or a crime, depending on how you use it, fro “Humans are very emotional creatures, and we make a lot of big decisions based on our emotions. A lot of those decisions usually have to do with money.”

  3. Yeah, I see why it could be called noble, rather than ethical… “Ethical investing, or ESG, has been a buzzword on the edges of the investment industry for decades… Do we all need to be wary of greenwashing and cynical grabs for assets? In this video, Laura Suter explains all.” Maybe it’s not as sexy as it sounds. (?)

  4. Mike

    Having an investment version of the philanthropy awards would be a good thing, and could be presented to the public better, I agree. But I wonder how many people realise they have never even heard of the biggest giver on the list you linked to:

    Jamsetji Tata $102.4 billion Education, healthcare
    Bill Gates $75.8 billion Healthcare, extreme poverty, education, access to information technology
    Warren Buffett $32.1 billion Healthcare, education, AIDS-prevention, sanitation
    George Soros $32 billion Healthcare, anti-fascist publications, human rights, economic, legal, and social reform

  5. These philanthropist investor winners are just presented as lists, it should be a top-10 countdown every week like the music charts was on tv. Make them heroes, not just names and invite them to private events. How is the world to know if Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos do the most for the world with money they have made from it? Respect to the winners, whoever they are though.

  6. Didn’t realise this existed. or that people gifted each other stock and shares. Interesting how it is coming along now we better apprecite we should give to charity, rather than we should trust the government to give some of our money to charity. Big difference.

  7. An idea stock exchange might not work as anybody could just pinch the idea and start trading that one instead. But there are other options to make money from your ideas. Read this and let me know if you have had any success.

  8. . Idea Market is a stock-exchange-like innovation portal that leverages on the power of the crowdsourcing and opens a space for people to express their ideas and collaborate with each other. As a result, it reinforces happiness among employees, leading to higher company growth.

  9. Kids need to learn about trading as much as they do about saving. The world needs to catch up with what is happening. Some kids are already winners, as this article mentions.

  10. This would be good. Especially if they were taught how to manage their shares, similar to how schools invite banks in to teach them about saving money etc. This book looks a good book for those who want to give their kids the extra opportunity of trading.

  11. I don’t trust banks with my money unless the govt bails them out. Worse than their contemporaries, the illegal scammers anyways. Be warned.

  12. Like the idea in theory but careful what you wish for. Plenty of people crash out when it comes to gambling and even trading, letting them lose everything to a bank is irresponsible to say the least.

  13. My advice is to just make it yourself and once it has started selling, contact individual potential investors. Less likely to get scammed and more likely to not look an idiot online or on tv.

  14. I think you can send a pitch on the Angel Investors website

  15. Nope, peer to peer is not what the idea was about – these guys are just wannabe banks and those that survive with end up being as bad as banks – the idea was about keeping interests rates cheap, not avoiding credit checks.

  16. It exists already – called peer-to-peer investing, there are sites and apps for it already.

  17. Often though Islamic banking was “interest-free”. but according to this it isn’t, and I don’t know if it can exist can it?

    ” A unique feature of Islamic banking, in theory, is its profit-and-loss sharing (PLS) paradigm. In practice, however, we find that Islamic banking is not very different from conventional banking. Our study on Malaysia shows that only a negligible portion of Islamic bank financing is strictly PLS based and that Islamic deposits are not interest-free, but are closely pegged to conventional deposits.”

  18. These exist, but I don’t think there si a clear winner atm.

  19. Tax havens are a bad thing for everyone other than the money maker. But yeah, who has power to close them down. Maybe Trump if he gets jealous of others who are making more than he is.

  20. Love this idea, there is plenty of room in the sea and plenty of countries that would love to attract billionaires – and now the tech is available to just make new artificial islands. You saw it here first I guess. Who will make the first one?

  21. Here is how it could work – though you would need someone to organise the funding bit