vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"If your friend is loaning you KRW which you are then converting to USD, then there are tax implications.  This would be a Section 988 transaction so ""gains"" or ""losses"" made during repayment (partial or complete) due to fluctuations in exchange rate would be treated as ordinary gains or losses. For example, imagine you borrow 100,000 KRW and, at the time you borrow it, this is worth exactly 100,000 USD.  At some future point, you repay 20,000 KRW.  If the exchange rate at that point is such that 20,000 KRW is worth 15,000 USD, then the IRS sees that you have ""gained"" 5,000 USD in ordinary income.  This is a particular concern if the loan is a mortgage and you refinance the mortgage at a moment in time with a more ""favorable"" exchange rate than the exchange rate when you first got the mortgage. See http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/section-988.asp for some additional discussion."
Algorithmic trading essentially banks on the fact that a price will fluctuate in tiny amounts over short periods of time, meaning the volatility is high in that given time frame. As the time frame increases the efficiency of algorithmic trading decreases and proper investment strategies such as due diligence, stock screening, and technical analysis become the more efficient methods.  Algorithms become less effective as the time frame increases due to the smoothing effect of volatility over time. Writing an algorithm that could predict future long-term prices would be an impossible feat because as the time frame is scaled up there are far less price fluctuations and trends (volatility smooths out) and so there is little to no benchmark for the formulas.  An algorithm simply wouldn't make sense for a long-term position. A computer can't predict, say, the next quarter, an ousted CEO, a buyout, or anything else that could effect the price of the security, never mind the psychology behind it all. Vice versa, researching a company's fundamentals just to bank on a 0.25% daily swing would not be efficient. Tax advantages or not, it is the most efficient methods that are preferred for a given time-scale of trading.
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&gt;Banks benefit from lower interest rates because it decreases the rate at which they can borrow from the Federal Reserve from.  But what matters is the spread: if rates on the borrowing and lending side go down, the spread % shrinks, which makes banks less profitable. That's why bank stocks go up when higher rates are anticipated. You can think of a bank stock as being long interest rates.  That's why bank stocks have lagged the rest of the market during this long bull market.  &gt;Bank's Assets aren't all debt  The vast majority is for most banks. GS and MS are the rare exceptions.
You have not mentioned the dates when you left India. Taxability is not depended on whether you transfer the funds to India or NOT. It is dependent on whether you are NRI for tax purposes for the given financial year. Refer to this question for more details Will it be taxable if I transfer money from UK account to India account? Edit: The lottery earnings are also treated in the same way. If you are NRI, you don't pay tax. Else you pay tax
Can they change the weights? Yes. Will they? It depends. are ETF's fixed from their inception to their de-listing? It's actually not possible for weights to be fixed, since different assets have different returns. So the weights are constantly changing as long as the market is moving. Usually after a certain period or a substantial market move, fund managers would rebalance and bring the weights back to a certain target. The target weights - what your question is really about - aren't necessarily the same as the initial weights, but often times they are. It depends on the objective of the ETF (which is stated in prospectus). In your example, if the manager drops the weight of the most volatile one, the returns of the ETF and the 5 stocks could be substantially different in the next period. This is not desirable when the ETFs objective is to track performance of those 5 stocks.  Most if not all ETFs are passively-managed. The managers don't get paid for active management. So they don't have incentive to adjust the weights if their funds are tracking the benchmarks just fine.
I have gotten some criminally bad tax advice from banking reps, so at the risk of sounding prejudiced, I recommend that you learn everything you can beforehand, and only go into your bank when you already know the right answer. The 'account types' themselves just involve a few pages of paperwork to open, and the banks will often do that for free. They make up their fees in offering investment types that earn them management fees once the accounts are created. Be sure to separate the investments (stocks vs bonds etc.) vs the investment vehicles. Canada has 'Tax Free Savings Accounts', where you can contribute a certain amount of money every year, and invest in just about anything you want, from bonds to stocks to mutual funds. Any Income you earn in this account is completely tax free. You can withdraw these investments any time you want, but you can't re-contribute until January 1st of next year. ie: you invest $5k today in stocks held in a TFSA, and they grow to $6k. You withdraw $6k in July. No tax is involved. On January 1st next year, you can re-contribute a new $6K, and also any additional amounts added to your total limit annually. TFSA's are good for short-term liquid investments. If you don't know for sure when you'll need the money, putting it in a TFSA saves you some tax, but doesn't commit you to any specific plan of action. Registered Retirement Savings Plans allow you to contribute money based on your employment income accrued over your lifetime in Canada. The contributions are deducted from your taxable income in the year you make them. When you withdraw money from your RRSP, the amount you withdraw gets added as additional income in that year. ie: you invest $5k today in stocks held in an RRSP, and get a $5k deduction from your taxable income this year. The investments grow to $6k. You withdraw $6k next year.
As you are in UK, you should think in terms of Tax Free (interest and accumulated capital gains) ISA type investments for the long term AND/OR open a SIPP (Self Invested Pension Plan) account where you get back the tax you have paid on the money you deposit for your old age. Pensions are  the best bet for money you do not need at present while ISAs are suitable for short term 5 years plus  or longer.
I know folks who considered retiring to another country. Their conclusion was that while base cost of living was lower, the cost of the things that they enjoy doing -- not to mention the cost of spending time with friends they didn't want to give up -- would be sufficiently higher to erase most of the advantages. Those of us who grew up in or close to cities feel much the same way about moving out to less-populated and less-expensive parts of our own country.  Basically, when cost of living is high it tends to be because there are more people who want to live there and are competing for resources (and driving prices up). Low cost of living is generally tied to less-desired locations, for the same reasons. IF you can find a location that appeals to you, and if you can get the resources there which your preferred lifestyle requires, this may make sense. For a while there were a number of professional writers moving from the US to Ireland, in part because the Irish tax structure heavily favored writers and other creative artists. (Katherine Kurtz spent several years living in a renovated Irish castle.) I'm not sure how many have stayed there after the novelty wore off.
An example of a field audit is when the IRS agent comes to your home to see if you actually have a space set aside to use exclusively as your home office as you claimed you did etc. A Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program (TCMP) audit is where the IRS randomly chooses returns for statistical checks that taxpayers are complying with the regulations. The taxpayer has to prove every line of the return. You claim to be filing as Married Filing Jointly? Bring in your marriage certificate. Submit birth certificates and Social Security cards of your dependent children. And so on. Yes, having TurboTax represent you for only $49.95 will help, but not if you are not married and cannot provide the IRS with a marriage certificate etc. So, pay the fee for peace of mind if you like, and as insurance as littleadv suggests. But be sure you understand what you might be getting for the money. Most tax returns selected for audit are selected for what the IRS believes are good reasons, not at random. If what you said If my tax return is randomly selected for audit they will represent me. is interpreted literally, TurboTax will represent you only if your return is selected for examination under the TCMP program, not if it is selected for audit because the IRS believes that something is fishy about your return. And as always, you get what you pay for.
"Perhaps just an ambiguity rather than a contradiction - You said, ""at the end of the day, fiat currencies are based on trust and accountability of the government"".  You then later said ""I'm not conflating trust of the issuer with trust of the ""bank"". I don't trust either.""   The problem there is that, on the Bitcoin side of the fence, there's no one there *to* trust.  **You** can be the bank.  You can also be the issuer, with enough computing horsepower.  Do you, then, not trust *yourself*?   Or, did I take that entirely wrong and you meant that directed toward the fiat side of things, and don't trust that Trump won't get us into a currency war with China (or his successor finally authorize that trillion dollar platinum coin to circumvent the debt ceiling - I don't mean that to be at all partisan)?"
Well they must be a real piece of Junk if the Israelis don't think its cost effective at killing unarmed Palestinians, especially taking into account, they are not going to pay anything and its mostly aid from the US tax payer.  The Russian PAK-FA or newly designated SU-47 on the other hand looks quite deadly.  Ah the Military complex's best boondoggle arrives at its eventual end
"You've touched on a very abstract concept that exist partly due to fractional-reserves and directly due to currency having no base (ex. not backed by gold), money can and does just pop into existence. To answer your question, we have to understand that the criminal is irrelevant. ""Can't a cyber criminal increase/decrease a bank's holdings just by changing a number in a computerized ledger book?"" The bank wouldn't need the cyber criminal's aid, they could change their own holdings. They have their own computers after all. Money's value is derived from trust. A bank that would change its own books would be black-balled. Similarly, a bank that un/consciously allows a cyber criminal change their holdings would lose trust. If this was a small transaction, they bank bottom line is unaffected. If these scandal is large enough to affect a bank's bottom line, the difference would be noticeable and raise suspicion."
The funny thing is, if someone came into the front door of a bank branch and committed a robbery in which they stole a fraction of that much, he'd be spending a lot more time in jail.  People who abuse their positions of trust to steal far more are getting off with a slap on the wrist.  Something is fundamentally wrong there.  [Edit: I left a word]
"You're being scammed.  I'd be willing to bet this 'celebrity' friend is a fake account on Instagram with 20k followers that befriends lonely neckbeards then tries to scam them.  Save your money.    Even if this is a legitimate long term friend whom you trust, you should put a lot more thought into ""investing"" money (that you don't have) into her brothers drug shop."
There are a lot of people speculating that Facebook will use the money they got from this to buy companies that could be used to turn their user base into more income.  With the stocks dropping in value, it might even be a good time to invest in them.
&gt;  Current fiat currency has a way to enforce itself if trust is lost. Bitcoin does not.  Right.  I'm saying it doesn't need to have to enforce trust to succeed.  It just needs to be trustworthy.  Trust that is voluntarily given is real trust, trust that is taken or forced is just compliance.  Bitcoin survives and thrives completely on the former.   The fact that fiat requires military enforcement to remain relevant is a glaring sign of it's inherent problems.
A Junior ISA might be one option if you are eligible do you have a CTF? (child trust fund) though the rules are changing shortly to allow those with CTF's to move to a junior ISA. JISA are yielding about 3.5% at the moment  Or as you are so young you could invest in one or two of the big Generalist Investment trusts (Wittan, Lowland) - you might need an adult open this and it would be held via a trust for you.  Or thinking really far ahead you could start a pension with say 50% of the lumpsum
"Other than the brokerage fee you should also consider the following: Some brokerages provide extra protection against the these and as you guessed it for a fee. However, there could be a small bonus associated with your trading at scale: You are probably qualified for rebates from the exchanges for generating liquidity.  ""Fees and Credits applicable to Designated Market Makers (“DMMs”)"" https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse/NYSE_Price_List.pdf All in all, I will say that it will be really hard for you to avoid paying brokerage fee and yes, even Buffet pays it."
Here's a point in favor of central banks: With a central bank in the middle making sure payments clear, transactions can happen with near perfect trust. When a bank has a daylight overdraft, the Fed covers it. When a bank needs overnight funding, the Fed provides it. If a bank needs vault cash, a truck shows up from the Fed.  Without this, no one could ever be entirely confident the other party was money-good. With a volume of transactions that can amount to annual GDP in as little as six days, this level of trust is critical to a smoothly functioning system of payments.
"The 529 plan does outline your scenarios. There are stipulations for providing the funds should the child get the scholarship. If the child decides not to go into further education (vocational and community schools count), the money can be withdrawn with a 10% penalty and taxes paid on interest earnings. Taxes wouldn't have to be paid for contributions as taxes were already paid on that money by the gift giver. The 529 could also be transferred to another child in the family (including grandchildren).  Here's an excerpt from www.savingforcollege.com: You'll never lose all of your savings. A 529 plan offers tax-free earnings and tax-free withdrawals as long as the money is used to pay   for college. If you end up taking a non-qualified withdrawal, you'll   incur income tax as well as a 10% penalty - but only on the earnings   portion of the withdrawal. Since your contributions were made with   after-tax money, they will never be taxed or penalized. You can avoid the penalty if you get a scholarship. There are a few special exceptions to the 10% penalty rule, including when the   beneficiary becomes incapacitated, attends a U.S. Military Academy or   gets a scholarship. In the case of a scholarship, non-qualified   withdrawals up to the amount of the tax-free scholarship can be taken   out penalty-free, but you'll have to pay income tax on the earnings.   As Savingforcollege.com founder Joe Hurley likes to say, ""the   scholarships have turned your tax-free 529 investment into a   tax-deferred 529 investment"". Note, a 529 is ideal for the sum of money you are looking at. A proper trust, set up by a lawyer, will cost as much as $2000 to set up, and would require an annual tax return, both unnecessary burdens. To make matters worse, the trust counts as the child's asset where financial aid is concerned. The 529 counts, but to a much lesser extent."
"You Need A Budget is a nice budgeting tool that works on the desktop.   It is more focused on manual entry and budgeting over auto-downloading and categorizing.   It does support downloading transactions from banks and then importing the transaction files.    You mentioned having ""trust issues"" with a bank and this would be safe as you don't enter your credentials into the app.   It also has a mobile app that works well. Not exactly what you are looking for, but it would work in India and be safe if you have an untrustworthy bank and it would allow you to import transactions."
You don't need ""in trust"" or anything similar because your customer, after paying the upfront fee, must trust that you will do the work you promise to do, just like you have to trust that after completing the work you will receive the final payment. This is the reason the default is 50% before and after. Both parties are risking (roughly) the same amount. Tip: having done the ""default"" contract many times in my career, both as a sole proprietor and a business owner, I can assure you there is a big difference between a potential customer agreeing to something in advance, and actually writing a check. The upfront payment definitely helps weed out those that were never going to end up paying you, even if their intentions were good. Tip 2: be as specific as possible as to what the scope of work will include. If you don't, particularly with software, they'll be adding feature after feature and expecting it to be ""included""."
Uber has to be first to create a self driving taxi fleet and maybe even keep the option of a human driver for the prices they *actually* want to charge(for profitability). I'm sure there will be pushback from Luddites and people who (understandably imo) don't trust a computer with their lives.
The Peoples Trust will be charging about 1% with a promise that this should come down over time. Compare this to a fee of 0.05% on a large, major market index tracking ETF. Further, the 1% headline fee being touted by Peoples Trust is a somewhat misleading, since they are paying their employees bonuses with shares in the fund. This will cause dilution of the net asset value per share and can be read as addition management fees by proxy. Since competent fund managers will demand high incomes, bonus shares could easily double the management fees, depending on the size of the fund. In summary, history has shown that the promises of active fund managers rarely (if ever) come to fruition. Personally, I would not consider this to be an attractive investment and would look more towards a passively managed major market index ETF with low management fees."
I'm pretty sure you can lobby the USDA just like any other part of government. Add a new wing onto their building and you can have whatever food you like designated organic.  Most organic nutballs don't consider the USDA a reliable source.
I work from home when I'm not on the road. I don't think I could go back to a desk job. Trust your employees to have discipline and do a good job and you will be rewarded. Those who abuse the system will be weeded out naturally.
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If there are no traded options in a company you can get your broker to write OTC options but this may not be possible given some restrictions on accounts. Going short on futures may also be an option. You can also open a downside CFD (contract for difference) on the stock but will have to have margin posted against it so will have to hold cash (or possibly liquid assets if your AUM is large enough) to cover the margin which is unutilized cash in the portfolio that needs to be factored into any portfolio calculations as a cost. Diversifying into uncorrelated stock or shorting correlated (but low div yield) stock would also have the same effect. stop loss orders would probably not be appropriate as it is not the price of the stock that you are concerned with but mitigating all price changes and just receiving the dividend on the stock. warning: in a crash (almost) all stocks become suddenly correlated so be aware that might cause you a short term loss. CFDs are complex and require a degree of sophistication before you can trade them well but as you seem to understand options they should not be too hard to understand.
no this is just a problem with the police union. They are incredibly corrupt and in bed with their corrupt political class who all like to have motorcades and be seen heading a small team of heavily armed thugs on their photo-ops.   no mayor can fight the police unions and guarantee their personal safety or public trust when cop unions can and will deliberately sabotage law and order in the city to make a point.   Certain jobs can't be safely unionized. A military union would just as fucking crazy to imagine.   Public servants ought to be public servants... It's not just another job and they need to be respected and taken care of.
&gt; Nonetheless, the sector has turned into something of a bubble characterized best by the surge in GPU stocks, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia, driven by a cryptocurrency mania.  Bitcoin and Ethereum have fallen sharply over the past month, and we believe they will fall a lot more.   This what happens when you bet against cryptos.  Let that be a lesson.