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Forum General Is there any way to make money on a country stock portfolio? (Kebir Blue)

Is there any way to make money on a country stock portfolio? (Kebir Blue)

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Parsifal (Kebir Blue)
16 Nov 2010 23:40 Link
That's the question. Is there any way to make money on a country stock portfolio? What does it contribute to the country's bottom line? What is the result of selling it all or building it up?
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White Darkness (Golden Rainbow)
16 Nov 2010 23:55 Link
In theory, it eventually boosts the taxes on the populace since the "profit per worker" goes up. How much this needs to go up to be obvious, no idea.
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CorporatePartner (Fearless Blue)
17 Nov 2010 08:57 Link
If you grow your corporations enough, and have multiple countries, then you can use that cash to buy shares in your own public corporations. That essentially, indirectly, frees up cash for your countries, which you can directly control. If you have an enterprise with public corporations, you could do the same thing.

In all cases, private investment funds are only allowed to buy shares in corporations outside their country, but if a corporation relocates, they sometimes end up (intentionally or unintentionally) controlling shares in corporations in their own country.

The general benefit probably connects to several indexes and monthly cost items (see: Financial Statement: Profit & Loss - This Month). But, that is speculation, based on observation and some miscellaneous news items; someone who actually knows, like maybe Jozzi or Tommi, should be able to answer in detail.

There should be another Jozzi chat coming up, so maybe you or someone else could find out more details from there.
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Solomon Grundy (Little Upsilon)
17 Nov 2010 10:09 Link
Yes Parsifal there are ways to grow the fund... message me at Slaughter Swamp.



Income from Dividend is where you'll see it. In the financial statement for the country.
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Orbiter (Little Upsilon)
17 Nov 2010 11:38 Link
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Border C (Little Upsilon)
17 Nov 2010 19:07 Link
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CorporatePartner (Golden Rainbow)
18 Nov 2010 16:26 Link
The dividend actually is in two parts: Country-owned shares (goes to country cash), itemized as Dividend as mentioned before, and the "Private Investments", or investment fund, which also has a Dividend item, but goes to the fund cash, not Country cash.

This country has no Country-owned shares, and has $SC 0 for the country Dividend payment, for example.

On the other hand, here is the example for the one that was being questioned originally.

reference:

{tab Finance > financial statement)

Private Investments

Cash Private Investments Funds
1,919.70B SC$

New Contributions by the Population
5,313.29M SC$

Profit from Private Investments this Month (Interest)
1,439.79M SC$

Dividend ...
228.58M SC$


Still, to access that cash, you would need to buy shares in a public corporation, and either control that corporation or have some arrangement with the controlling party.
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White Darkness (Little Upsilon)
21 Nov 2010 20:41 Link
Income from dividend is the cash from the shares in a public corporation owned by either the country or an enterprise, not the country's Investment fund.
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Maestro2000
22 Nov 2010 04:16 Link
Make money on country stock:

Buy low...

Sell high...
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Orbiter (Little Upsilon)
22 Nov 2010 05:40 Link
honestly, the country and IF stock adds a huge part of the fun of the game for me. its one of my favorite things.

you can make a ton of money using them, i think it'd be really cool if they improved the interface. not entirely sure how they could though.