In today’s economy, office business centers (OBCs) represent a viable alternative to commercial space for established organizations, professionals and entrepreneurs. Here are 10 facts you should consider in evaluating their relevance for your business.1. OBCs help you to focus on your core competency.
In competitive industries, time becomes a valuable commodity, especially for high-level executives. By using an office business center instead of commercial space, you can focus on critical business matters instead of office maintenance and infrastructure.2. By pooling resources, OBC clients can afford cutting-edge technology and services.
OBCs offer a myriad of high-end telecommunications and Internet options too expensive for most small businesses. For example, high bandwidth capacity, fiber optics, VoIP technology, high-speed printers and scanners are readily available. Videoconferencing, also available at most OBCs, can save a fortune in travel expenses.3. OBC clients include nearly every type of business.
Our clients include international organizations and entrepreneurs, as well as professionals such as accountants, lawyers, doctors and financial consultants.4. OBCs provide flexible working arrangements.
OBCs are perfect for flextime, a concept designed to escape the straitjacket of the standard 9-5 work week. OBCs offer virtual support and office space whenever you need it under a wide variety of terms. For international organizations, this includes support staff at nearly any hour.5. OBCs may be used for temporary staff or during office renovations.
Sometimes, your headquarters needs to be refurbished, and the displacement can affect your company’s productivity. OBCs provide office space for any length of time without the commitment of a lease.6. OBCs offer seamless integration with your company headquarters.
At an OBC, you can keep your email domain or main phone number (with new extensions). Through special technology, connection to your clients will be seamless, and customers will be unable to distinguish your OBC office from your main headquarters. OBCs can even incorporate your company’s I.T. security devices to protect your data.7. OBCs help you to learn from your neighbor.
Clients of OBCs can network with other occupants. Best business practices can be improved through this interaction giving clients a substantial advantage over the competition.8. OBCs can be customized for nearly any need.
OBCs let you customize your office instead of trying to fit into a cubic box with a desk and a phone. You can decide how much space to use and change that according to circumstances. You can decide what support structure you need and change that, too.9. OBCs provide office in elegant locations with multiple meeting venues.
OBCs offer a multitude of meeting venues including conference rooms of varying sizes, seminar rooms and auditoriums. Videoconferencing enables virtual meetings, saving both time and money. OBCs are typically located in upscale buildings with attractive grounds and amenities.10. OBCs are particularly valuable when the economy is volatile.
Though a valuable resource at any time, OBCs are particularly in demand during economic recessions or uncertain business environments. The items mentioned above become even more urgent when you are unsure what tomorrow will bring.
10 Facts About Office Business Centers
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SPDN: An Inexpensive Way To Profit When The S&P 500 Falls
Summary
SPDN is not the largest or oldest way to short the S&P 500, but it’s a solid choice.
This ETF uses a variety of financial instruments to target a return opposite that of the S&P 500 Index.
SPDN’s 0.49% Expense Ratio is nearly half that of the larger, longer-tenured -1x Inverse S&P 500 ETF.
Details aside, the potential continuation of the equity bear market makes single-inverse ETFs an investment segment investor should be familiar with.
We rate SPDN a Strong Buy because we believe the risks of a continued bear market greatly outweigh the possibility of a quick return to a bull market.
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By Rob Isbitts
Summary
The S&P 500 is in a bear market, and we don’t see a quick-fix. Many investors assume the only way to navigate a potentially long-term bear market is to hide in cash, day-trade or “just hang in there” while the bear takes their retirement nest egg.
The Direxion Daily S&P 500® Bear 1X ETF (NYSEARCA:SPDN) is one of a class of single-inverse ETFs that allow investors to profit from down moves in the stock market.
SPDN is an unleveraged, liquid, low-cost way to either try to hedge an equity portfolio, profit from a decline in the S&P 500, or both. We rate it a Strong Buy, given our concern about the intermediate-term outlook for the global equity market.
Strategy
SPDN keeps it simple. If the S&P 500 goes up by X%, it should go down by X%. The opposite is also expected.
Proprietary ETF Grades
Offense/Defense: Defense
Segment: Inverse Equity
Sub-Segment: Inverse S&P 500
Correlation (vs. S&P 500): Very High (inverse)
Expected Volatility (vs. S&P 500): Similar (but opposite)
Holding Analysis
SPDN does not rely on shorting individual stocks in the S&P 500. Instead, the managers typically use a combination of futures, swaps and other derivative instruments to create a portfolio that consistently aims to deliver the opposite of what the S&P 500 does.
Strengths
SPDN is a fairly “no-frills” way to do what many investors probably wished they could do during the first 9 months of 2022 and in past bear markets: find something that goes up when the “market” goes down. After all, bonds are not the answer they used to be, commodities like gold have, shall we say, lost their luster. And moving to cash creates the issue of making two correct timing decisions, when to get in and when to get out. SPDN and its single-inverse ETF brethren offer a liquid tool to use in a variety of ways, depending on what a particular investor wants to achieve.
Weaknesses
The weakness of any inverse ETF is that it does the opposite of what the market does, when the market goes up. So, even in bear markets when the broader market trend is down, sharp bear market rallies (or any rallies for that matter) in the S&P 500 will cause SPDN to drop as much as the market goes up.
Opportunities
While inverse ETFs have a reputation in some circles as nothing more than day-trading vehicles, our own experience with them is, pardon the pun, exactly the opposite! We encourage investors to try to better-understand single inverse ETFs like SPDN. While traders tend to gravitate to leveraged inverse ETFs (which actually are day-trading tools), we believe that in an extended bear market, SPDN and its ilk could be a game-saver for many portfolios.
Threats
SPDN and most other single inverse ETFs are vulnerable to a sustained rise in the price of the index it aims to deliver the inverse of. But that threat of loss in a rising market means that when an investor considers SPDN, they should also have a game plan for how and when they will deploy this unique portfolio weapon.
Proprietary Technical Ratings
Short-Term Rating (next 3 months): Strong Buy
Long-Term Rating (next 12 months): Buy
Conclusions
ETF Quality Opinion
SPDN does what it aims to do, and has done so for over 6 years now. For a while, it was largely-ignored, given the existence of a similar ETF that has been around much longer. But the more tenured SPDN has become, the more attractive it looks as an alternative.
ETF Investment Opinion
SPDN is rated Strong Buy because the S&P 500 continues to look as vulnerable to further decline. And, while the market bottomed in mid-June, rallied, then waffled since that time, our proprietary macro market indicators all point to much greater risk of a major decline from this level than a fast return to bull market glory. Thus, SPDN is at best a way to exploit and attack the bear, and at worst a hedge on an otherwise equity-laden portfolio.