Articles - Raúl Bartolomé

Starting a Doctorate in Business Administration

Post category:Finance Management
Post published:2020-12-23

Once more I have started a new university degree, this time a DBA in the modality of executive DBA, part time, extramural. It is a four-year course, pinnacle of management education. The DBA is taught by the University of Bradford, Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences. They are already good old friends because I had my MBA in the same school. The DBA thesis will pivot around algorithmic trading strategies, the objective is to systematically analyse them and identify which ones are more suitable for different profiles of investors.

Annaly (NLY-N), the largest mortgage REIT, is it a good investment?

Post category:Business Finance
Post published:2020-06-21

Annaly is a REIT specialized in mortgages, the largest of its kind in the United States. Provides a juicy 12.6% dividend. Do you wonder if this is a good time to buy shares of Annaly or other REITs. This article can help you.

The real estate situation in Germany. Is there a bubble?

Post category:Business Finance
Post published:2020-06-12

The purchase prices of houses in Munich show a growth that many describe as a real estate bubble, with an average of 5000 EUR/m2 in 2016 to 7500 EUR/m2 in 2020, which leads to a growth of 50%. Prices not only grow due to the economic boom and strategic situation of the city, the financing facilities are excellent, the financial institutions provide loans with interests close to 0%.

Are investment funds a substitute for financial advice?

Post category:Finance
Post published:2020-05-23

As an investor since 2015 and future financial advisor I think it is fair to say that it depends. In this article I explain the added value of financial advisers and how to achieve similar results using two alternatives.

The Bank’s Situation in Germany

Post category:Finance
Post published:2020-02-29

In general, German banks are a more complicated situation in terms of profitability than their counterparts in other EU countries due to very low interest rates (CNBC, 2019). One of the main problems is the proliferation of small savings banks, there are about 400 savings banks in the country known as Sparkassen, which represent 15 percent of the total assets of the banking sector (Internationalbanker, 2019), these boxes savings present a personalized service, neighborhood, which is not free of cost.

If I were the Director of a Deutsche Bank Neighborhood Bank

Post category:Finance Management
Post published:2020-02-26

The Deutsche Bank (DB) subsidiary is located in the Bogenhause neighborhood in Munich, Germany. Bogenhause is a residential neighborhood, located on the outskirts of Munich. As director of the subsidiary, you are aware of the number of challenges to which the bank is plunged and pay special attention to the specific aspects of the subsidiary.

N26, My Bank In Germany

Post category:Finance
Post published:2020-02-22

N26 is a German bank founded in 2016, which operates in most of the euro zone countries, Switzerland and the USA. The entity is classified as a neobank, 100% digital and accessible to customers only in mobile applications and website. In 2019 Forbes announces that N26 the entity became the online bank with the highest market capitalization in Europe, ahead of Revolt.

Tandem Interactive Brokers and N26

Post category:Finance
Post published:2020-02-15

The prestigious Barron’s newspaper, specializing in financial and economic information, published the online broker ranking for 2019 (Miller, 2019). The winner was Interactive Brokers (IB), a situation that has occurred in previous years. This assessment is endorsed by other organizations such as Broker Chooser (2020) that classifies IB as the best online broker, best broker for daily operations and best broker for futures.

Mind-Matter Interaction – Science of Consciousness

Post category:Psychology
Post published:2019-11-01

The experiment conducted by Dean Radin, PhD and many other researchers, concludes with a very high statistical significance (5 to 6 sigma) that consciousness alters the power distribution of the interference pattern on the screen. This is a clear evidence that the mind can affect the matter that surrounds it.

Master in Financial Advice and Asset Management

Post category:Finance
Post published:2019-10-13

My motivation to specialize in finance is due to my interest in investment in the stock market. It is something that I have been doing for a few years and I want to expand in the personal and professional field. However, the knowledge acquired during my MBA is not enough to fully develop a career in financial advice, complementary to my professional development as a director and engineer.

Moving from HostGator to Amazon Web Services

Post category:Software and IT
Post published:2019-05-11

I've been user of "low cost" shared web hosting for many years. I started with blueHost and I ended with HostGator. The experience has not been fully satisfactory, the control panel is bulky and the work is not really smooth, however my cost analysis concluded that they were the most cost effective.

Cisium, Inc., Website Closing

Post category:Business Software and IT Technology
Post published:2019-04-28

It has been a very long journey for Cisium, Inc. website. It started in 2007 and this year finally I shut it down. I created the site using Joomla!, it overcome one major update in 2010. To use Joomla! as content management system has not been a pleasant job. In my experience Joomla! is slow and the administration is heavy. After many years using Joomla! in many websites, I don’t think it will use it anymore.

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