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  • From: yarrow@sfo.com
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] A Question about investments
  • Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:12:15 -0700

1. I'd stay away from this financial advisor. If you need one, find one who doesn't recommend ethically questionable investments. I'd be wary of anyone who tried to hard-sell his own company.

2. If you can afford to buy land, why not buy land? Start an orchard. Plant a garden. Get off the grid.

3. Catherine Ausin-Fitts talks a lot about investing locally. Google and see if her approach makes sense to you in the place where you want to live.

4. Maybe microloans? Kiva is a smaller-scale version of the Grameen Bank -- allows individuals to pick international projects to invest in where small (to us) amounts of money make a huge difference.

5. I think some of the best "investments" are education and books. Think about what skills you'd like to learn.

6. If you have income and you qualify, put as much as possible into Roth IRAs (not taxed) and 401k plans (or the equivalent) in the U.S., or equivalent tax-deferred retirement savings plans.


At 7:05 PM -0700 10/6/07, Udan Farm wrote:
Hello,
My partner and I are considering investing in the Permaculture Credit Union as we are taking over finances for his ill father. We have been talking to a local financial adviser, but we keep in mind that his and our values are very different, ours being straight along Permaculture Ethics lines and very simple.

My question is this:
Does anyone have any input on investing in things from a Perm. Ethics point of view, but that would also save us from having to pay a lot of federal income tax (we are in the US)?
Our financial adviser seems to think that his company is perfect for us, since they try to avoid for us to pay taxes (by finding tax deferred things to put our money in) and they invest in things other than the stock market. But a lot of what the co. invests in is not simple and is questionable ethically or at least convoluted.

We simply would rather put it in a PCU or a jar in the ground, or buy land,
or some other ethical investment but those things incur tax payments yearly....(except the jar)

Any thoughts?

We appreciate this input as we are wading into this unfamiliar territory.
Thanks,
Isabel Crabtree




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