Terra World Trade. REIT.com. Real Estate Investment Trusts Handbook, 2012-2013 ed. (Securities Law Handbook Series) Home - Social Venture Network. How REITs Work" Investing in income-generating real estate can be a great way to increase your net worth.
But for many people, investing in real estate, particularly commercial real estate, is simply out of reach financially. But what if you could pool your resources with other small investors and invest in large-scale commercial real estate as a group? REITs (pronounced like "treats") allow you to do just that.
REIT stands for real estate investment trust and is sometimes called "real estate stock. " Essentially, REITs are corporations that own and manage a portfolio of real estate properties and mortgages. Investing in some types of REITs also provides the important advantages of liquidity and diversity. REITs came about in 1960, when Congress decided that smaller investors should also be able to invest in large-scale, income-producing real estate. A company must distribute at least 90 percent of its taxable income to its shareholders each year to qualify as a REIT.
CDS - Cooperative Development Services. Home - National Cooperative Business Association. Deepak Chopra: Social Media is the Next Phase of Humanity. Deepak Chopra is a champion of the power of social media.
The spiritual and cultural leader told the audience at the 2012 Social Good Summit that social media is an extension of society's subconscious and is the inevitable next phase of humanity. "Technology is our creation; we weren't created by technology, so let's use our creation to bring about a healing," Chopra said.
"At the most fundamental level, we are not just connected, we are inseparable. " But harnessing the power of social media, to become something larger than just networking, Chopra said, is a choice for humanity to make — the world is still at a crossroads. Although he said technology itself is neutral, he espoused a message of hope, saying that if harnessed for good, technology could lead the world to a place of good and produce a united solution for the challenges of the world. SEE ALSO: Deepak Chopra: Spirituality in The Age of Social Media "You can never program true intelligence into a computer," Chopra said.
GreenHive (.coop) Northwest Cooperative Development Center. Consumer cooperative. In some countries, consumers' cooperatives are known as cooperative retail societies or retail co-ops, though they should not be confused with retailers' cooperatives, whose members are retailers rather than consumers.
Consumers' cooperatives may, in turn, form cooperative federations. These may come in the form of cooperative wholesale societies, through which consumers' cooperatives collectively purchase goods at wholesale prices and, in some cases, own factories. Alternatively, they may be members of cooperative unions.[4] Consumer cooperation has been a focus of study in the field of cooperative economics. Governance and Operation[edit] Large consumers' co-ops are run much like any other business and require workers, managers, clerks, products, and customers to keep the doors open and the business running.
Finance and approach to capital accumulation[edit] Problems[edit] Pursuit of social goals through consumer co-operatives[edit] Examples[edit] Australia[edit] Europe[edit] Japan[edit]