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Mortgage or Super?

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:22:02 +0000

Are you better off reducing your mortgage or contributing to super?A lot of people ask this question. Unfortunately, as with many wealth management decisions there is no straight forward answer. The appropriate choice depends on a number of issues, some of which we address in this article.The obvious starting point is to look at the numbers. Assume you have 15 years until you can access your superannuation benefits free of tax. You have a mortgage that is costing you 7.0% a year (after tax) and a small amount of super. Over the next 15 years, you expect to have at least $13,375[1] a year of surplus cash flow.What should you do with this additional surplus?We assessed two scenarios:Scenario 1 assumes that you use the $13,375 p.a. surplus to make additional payments to your mortgage.Scenario 2 assumes that you contribute $25,000 a year to super, as salary sacrifice or as a personal tax deductible super contribution. As a result, your surplus after-tax cash flow reduces by $13,375 a year. We have assumed you are on the top marginal tax rate.We also assume that you take no additional investment risk in your super account. In other words, you invest the additional after tax super contributions in cash (earning a rate 5.0% per annum).But the numbers alone may not be the only consideration …There may be other issues to take into account, including: 1. How much flexibility do you need or want in your affairs? To obtain the tax benefits of contributing to super you need to be confident of your future cash flow. You don’t want to experience a lack of cash when you need it most. An investment in longer term planning can help you make the decision with confidence; 2. Your long term super contribution strategy. The “use it or lose it” nature of super contribution limits means that you cannot delay making contributions until just before retirement. Imagine directing surplus cash flow towards the mortgage only to find that you have significantly underestimated your annual cash flow surpluses. You may now find that your ability to contribute to super is undesirably restricted; 3. Don’t forget about legislative risk. While the recent trend has seen superannuation improve in attractiveness, this may not always be the case. The rules can change, invalidating an earlier decision; 4. Don’t unwittingly expose yourself to more risk than you need to. If you choose the super contribution alternative over the mortgage reduction option and invest the proceeds in growth assets, you increase your risk exposure. You are effectively funding the super contributions by using non-deductible debt (i.e. by choosing not to repay it). So, the strategy has an element of gearing to it. If you want to increase the certainty of the strategy paying off you need to direct the additional super contributions to low risk assets. Investing in higher risk assets will increase the chance that you may end up worse off; and 5. Don’t ignore the emotional burden of debt. Despite the mathematics, some people will sleep better with less debt. While it may have a financial cost, the emotional pay off may be greater.Take a comprehensive and long term viewThe mathematics suggest it’s better to make pre-tax contributions to super, even if they’re funded by non-deductible debt. Yet there are a lot of other considerations to take into account.Often, the numbers based answer may not be appropriate in light of your broader personal circumstances and objectives. Also, the more qualitative factors (e.g. the emotional burden of debt) may outweigh the purely quantitative factors.Potential future opportunities (and problems) are revealed from a taking a comprehensive and long term view. In our experience, decisions that are thorough and specifically applied to your affairs not only prove to be less complex and less costly, but also produce results that are far more likely to achieve your objectives.

Property Investing – Listed or Unlisted?

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:48:59 +0000

The Government’s plan to provide a rescue package to help the ailing commercial property sector has sent shivers down the spines of many investors. The package is driven by the fear of property trusts being unable to refinance their short term debt. Most notably, the probability of refinance by foreign lenders, who are coping with their own problems at home, is considered to be quite low.The implications of not being able to obtain funding (i.e. re-financing) are that property assets may have to be sold in a short period of time. This is likely to result in ‘fire sale’ prices for those forced to sell. The concern for those not forced to sell is that these sales are likely to drive down the valuations of all properties which may trigger covenant breaches on existing loans that are not due for re-finance. It may also have an impact of the value of residential property as both commercial and residential property markets, while different, are based on the valuation of land. This would then affect the banks and the wider community. But would this be such a dilemma if the properties were valued at their current market sale price? It seems that the current dilemma is an issue that has arisen as a result of property managers being reluctant to value their properties at or near actual market values. Surely, if they were valued at close to market value the prospect of a quick sale would not be such a current issue. It would certainly cause a fair bit of pain to re-value these assets but it would allow investors and lenders a far more transparent view of the situation. The lack of sales is quite evident. Sales of commercial property (i.e. office, retail and industrial) totalled $16.5 billion in 2007 compared to only $5 billion for the equivalent period last year.[1] This seems to highlight the fear property managers have of selling their assets to provide liquidity. It also highlights their reliance on bank funding as their only alternative. A number of unlisted property trusts have frozen investor redemptions on the basis that selling properties now would not generate proceeds that reflect the ‘fair’ value of the properties theyhold. Their solution is to stick with their ‘fair’ valuations in the hope that things improve within the next few months to enable sales to occur at prices that are closer to their book values. It basically confirms that they believe their own valuations are optimistic.But what about the listed property sector?The value of these property trusts is driven by the market price of their units. This is driven by market sentiment about the sector and each participant. It is not based exclusively on the book value of their property assets.This has been the worst performing sector of the market over the past year. The question is will it get worse given the dire expectations for commercial property?Well, the short answer is that it could. However, it seems that the listed property trust sector, while on the surface being a much poorer recent performer than unlisted commercial property and residential property, has taken a lot more of the downside on the chin. The market sentiment, which takes into account the current re-financing risks, is already being factored into the prices of the listed sector. Those securities that have been unable, or considered unlikely, to obtain refinance have already been severely downgraded by the market.A premium indicates that the market’s value of the pool of property assets is greater than the book valuation of these assets. A discount indicates that the market’s valuation is lower than the book values.Currently, the market is valuing the sector at a 30% discount to the book value of its assets. This compares to the 5- year average of a 5% discount.However, the unlisted trust sector is still valuing itself based on book value, with valuations of some properties as much as two or three years old. The concern is that funding problems will force asset sales in thin markets, exposing the yawning gap between book value and market reality.So, should you still be investing in property?We believe there is still a place for property in an investor’s portfolio. We make the following observations:1. Property provides a good addition to any growth portfolio. It’s correlation to other asset classes is relatively low and it therefore continues to add diversification benefits;2. Broad diversification within the property sector is preferred to a concentrated exposure;3. Listed Property exposure provides more liquidity than unlisted exposure and/or direct property exposure. The listed mechanism provides investors with the opportunity to buy and sell partial exposures and provides a transparent price at all times. This considerably improves an investor’s ability to manage their risk exposure. It does however come with a higher degree of price volatility. As stated in previous articles, this is more a factor of the frequency of valuation rather than a difference in the underlying assets;4. Based on the above discussion, it would appear that on a relative basis listed property has more upside potential than unlisted and direct property exposures. This does not imply that we are forecasting the listed property sector to have bottomed (although with time that may prove to be the case), it is simply better placed on a relative basis. For those with both listed and unlisted/direct exposure and a concern about an over weighting in the property sector, reducing your unlisted and/or direct exposure first is considered a more prudent option.SummaryThe listed property sector has experienced a significant and severe shakeout over the past 12-15 months. Whether this will continue is anyone’s guess. The current market for listed property securities (and all listed securities) reflects investor expectation of the future. For prices to fall further, those already negative expectations would have to worsen.The fortunes of unlisted and direct property sectors are equally difficult to predict. However, it appears that they have not adjusted to market realities evidenced by the performance of the listed sector. On a relative basis, the listed sector appears to have more upside and far more flexibility than the unlisted and direct sectors.

How to Manage Investment Volatility

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:21:25 +0000

When the market is on a bull run, as it was in the earlier part of the year, or during the first half of 2007, investors tend to neglect risks. However recent events (triggered by US subprime and financial meltdown) demonstrated that investing in stock markets isn’t for the faint of heart. A case in point is that for the past few months, wild swings of daily stock market indexes by few percentage points were common. How does one manage his or her portfolio in such volatility? For some, unloading all their stocks and keep all their CASH safely in the bank may sound the safest option. Others may switch part or entire portfolio to other safer instruments such as gold or commodities, or cash instruments.Getting It Right At The Start

While timing everything right seems impossible, there are better ways to manage one’s portfolio. Essentially, getting it right at the start is important. One will worry less if one’s portfolio is structured right to start off with, that is, maintain an asset allocation strategy based on one’s personal risk profile at the very first place. With asset allocation, diversify one’s portfolio is the key, in order to reduce over dependence of a specific asset class, that is.Diversify

One such method is to consider various instruments that have low correlation to one another. For example, while directly investing in individual stocks has good direct exposure, consider investing in unit trusts or ETFs, where typically the funds will be invested in a basket of stocks instead of one individual stock. In principal, stocks tend to be a lot more volatile than equity unit trusts for the reason that funds tend to be more diversified because they are invested in multiple stocks.

Other low correlation asset classes include bonds, commodities (gold, metals) and real estate properties. Gold is a perfect case in point, where prices have escalated by around 50% from 2007 to-date due to sky rocketing crude oil prices and perception of safe-heaven characteristic.Adopt Mid to Long Term Horizon

The longer the time horizon is, the more volatility one can tolerate as one has more time to recover from short term volatility. Putting a mid to long term strategy in place will certainly allow an investor to take into consideration factors that will affect one’s portfolio, such as market cycles, political stability and economic swings.Stay Objective

While i agree that investing in general should be taken with a long term perspective, it is not a hard and fast rule as it is also important to stay objective and be alert to potential major changes in business or economic environment from both local and global perspective. For example, while investing in China equity at one point (prior to 2007) may be a great idea tapping into the explosive growth of Chinese companies, an investor should consider unloading some or all of the funds invested to else where when Chinese stocks were trading at lofty and unrealistic valuations. Another example is when subprime issues first surfaced, it is wise to find out from the brokers or agents immediately where their property trust funds were invested. It is wise to liquidate such investments when the stakes are high!Invest Regularly

Invest regularly is also a good way to manage periodic market volatility. For many this could be in the form of monthly investment, directly from their monthly income or retirement fund savings. In essence one will continue to invest a particular sum of money regardless of whether the market rises or falls. This method is also commonly termed as Dollar Cost Averaging.

One may choose to invest more regularly during the bull market and less regularly during the bear market. However, again there is really no hard and fast rule, it all depends on each individual’s risk profile and preference.

Breaking All the Rules – Exclusive World Class Investments to Help Double Your Net Worth and to Establish Your Legacy!!

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:22:55 +0000

BREAKING ALL THE RULES! Exclusive World Class Investments to Help Double Your Net Worth and to Establish Your Legacy!!

Cabal Capital Management, LLC announces the launch of the Legacy Fund which provides special alternative investment opportunities into extremely low risk, and very high financial return Advanced High Income Generation Projects through direct investments.

This fund which is not a private equity fund is unlike all other investment pool funds that exist today by offering investments that are focused on both strategic and tactical investment opportunities into Highly Advanced Income Generating Project(s) producing crucial and vital, very high demand commercially valued product(s) that are being sold directly into the largest “Major” Universal Demand Markets in the world. These investments allow risk adverse accredited investors the ability to participate in the revenues generated from these projects which allows for and achieves both capital growth and preservation, while providing the investor an extremely low risk opportunity with the benefit of dependable and sustainable alpha generation and the long term growth from these projects. These fully integrated projects have been designed to last 40 to 50 years or longer for their life cycles regardless of the global financial and credit markets.

Our fund is well positioned to effectively tap into these markets to the benefits of our investors. The growth dynamics of the United States and Western Europe is based upon local, regional and domestic consumption of all the products these projects produce. This fund is targeting routine and consistent annual double digit returns (15 – 21%) to investors un-correlated to all securities, commodities, currencies and the credit markets themselves since there will not be any exposure to these markets. All project investments within this special investment vehicle have been specifically developed and designed to perform across various business cycles regardless of global economic conditions to include recessionary and depressionary environments as well.

The current global credit crisis, current stock market contractions and wild swings in the commodities markets does not and will not impact our ability to produce consistent annual double digit returns now or in the future for our investors since we will never have, need or rely on the credit markets to establish margin accounts or leveraged positions which most all hedge fund type investment vehicles require to operate. We do not require nor will we ever utilize prime services which the large investment banks provide (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, etc.). We do not rely on the stock, commodity or currency exchanges to generate income since we can not control any of the events occurring in those exchanges for our investors, thus we are totally un-correlated to all securities, commodities, currencies and credit markets.

In the case of Deflationary and or Inflationary Markets, they will have no real effect on these projects and the products they produce. Coincidentally inflation will only increase the value of the products coming out of the projects. Deflationary markets will have very minimal impact on the products produced within these projects since these products are and always will be vital for any country to maintain a stable economy, thus they will always be in very high demand through out the world regardless of the global economic conditions.

Risk issues are always addressed through risk management and the review procedures for each and every investment made. Unlike most projects which have been developed, planned and master planned, every assumption for each project invested in has been tested, validated, verified and proven or it’s not incorporated into these project(s). Each and every project is also backed up by a detailed Input / Output Financial Cash Model which is a detailed Program / Project Financial Blueprint that shows the quarterly inter-relationships of investments, operational production revenues, operational expenses at all levels, taxes, imposts and fees, special circumstances events, and financial obligations during the life of the Program / Project.

Since energy production and consumption is the key element to any industrialized country, and with energy consumption increasing globally at an annual rate of 5 – 6 %, energy is and always will be vital to both the U.S. and Western European Economies. Allocating to Energy and Bio-Fuels production are two major key areas of involvement and investments within our seven pronged program investment strategies approach, which consists of the following options available to us: Energy: Oil & Gas (Example Project to follow), Bio Fuels: Algae Based Bio-Diesel and Jatropha Curcas {plant} direct fuel source. Algae Based Bio-Diesel is a direct fuel source currently available and ready for full scale production and delivery {This is Direct Fuel Source and is not a blend for gasoline or other fuel sources!} Algae Based Bio-Diesel Fuel production utilizes proprietary photo enhanced, micro nutrient enhanced, continuous flow, automated, sensor quality controlled, bio-chemical industrial processes and then are pressed, centrifuged, oils separated from water, water treated, cooked, cracked and treated all within a 12 hour cycle (Start to Finish) to complete one batch made ready for use in any diesel engine. Initially 270 Million Gallons per quarter to several Billion Gallons of bio-diesel per quarter will be produced depending upon the initial size of a project program. This Algae Based Bio-Diesel Fuel source has a Cetane Rating of 105 -117 compared to 80 – 85 Cetane Rating for #1 diesel fuel currently produced by all the major oil companies, which provides more power, better millage and performance while emitting 60 – 70% less emissions across the board vs. normal standard crude oil based diesel fuels. Algae Based Bio-Diesel emits no sulfur and or nitrogen into the atmosphere, Alternative Energy: Solar / Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Production, Wind and Electric Fuel Cell Systems, Natural Resources: Gold, Platinum and other Precious Metals Groups and Diamond Mining: Refining, Assaying, Separation using advanced physical technologies and Bullion production of Gold and Platinum as well as Processing, Cutting, Valuation Appraisals of Diamonds and other Precious Stones, Water: Proprietary Water Science / Technology to Produce Fresh Drinking Water to meet Agricultural, Industrial and Human Public Health needs in critically water short areas through Water production, bottling facilities and distribution. This can be accomplished with any available water supply {in ground water tables, above and below ground reservoirs with a high saline content normally not recommended for human consumption}, Sea Waters & Brackish Waters anywhere Globally, Hydroponics: Food Production: Fish Shrimp, Prawns, Fruits Vegetables utilizing USDA inspectors to garner Grade A Choice Status to include direct marketing into Major U.S.A. and International Consumer Demand Markets, and Special Opportunities: Aviation Fuels: JP-1 to JP-12 for Commercial and Military Applications from Algae Based Direct Fuel Sources as well as Advanced Hyper-Speed Information Technologies and other Advanced High Income Generation Project Opportunities as they become available.

It should be noted that traditional large project investments consist normally of only one income generation production element and typically requires three years at the earliest before the investors see any type of modest return on their investment. Our projects produce immediate results in the first year due to their very nature and global demand. These Exclusive World Class Projects which are available to us for investments have no less than 2, but normally include 5 or more Major Integrated Income Production Elements within each project. It should also be noted that each income producing element within these projects are so strong that they could stand on their own and support the entire project, which is why many of these elements are developed together to form an Advanced Integrated Income Generation Project depending upon the requirements and location of the program.

All of the projects that this special opportunity fund invests in involve Proprietary Advanced Technologies and Advanced Physical Science / Processes (not known to the great majority of Asset Manager Companies Staffs). Other types of investment pool managers, hedge funds, etc. do not know or even have access to these world class development engineering people and the technologies assets and projects that they develop, implement and manage. Currently we have in excess of $10 Billion Dollars worth of Advanced High Income Generation Projects available to us for investments.

Another Special Note of consideration is that each investment will bring with it potential tax advantages not typically found with other types of investments. Depending on where the project(s) are located and how the project are legally structured and set up (Development Corporations, Development Authorities, etc. which are authorized by local, state or federal governments) could result in tremendous tax advantages, which each investors tax advisor will need to qualify and determine the best approach for each investors own tax liabilities depending upon their current tax status, situation and strategies.

These projects are developed, implemented and managed by Highly Reliable, Senior Internationally Experienced Technical Managers, Senior Science Managers and Senior Logistics / Project Security Management Staffs, which have planned, developed, evaluated and trouble-shot economic development projects and strong income generation projects in over 65 countries during the past 40 years.

There are in excess of 300 Top Level Executive Technical Managers with over 30 years of Experience in each of their perspective Development Sectors available for all projects that our fund invests in. These projects are designed to insure extreme depth of expertise and experience management which is available to any project at any and every stage of the project program, regardless of location of the project anywhere globally.

The results of this Special Investment Vehicle fund are highly advantageous investment opportunities that by far exceed the majority of investment opportunities available to investors from a financial return as well as extremely low risk standpoint by investing in Outstanding Advanced High Income Generation Projects carried out by highly reliable and responsible individuals and organizations.

Face to face meetings are welcomed and encouraged in order to quantify, qualify, verify and validate these investment opportunities which stem from the Americana way of project development and implementation with the application of Science, Engineering, Logistics, Security and Management which dates back to over 200 Years during the American Expansion of the United States of America. Never before in the history of mankind has the shear number and sizes of these Universal Demand Markets through out the world been in place and more importantly, primed and ready to handle and accept these vital and crucial very high demand, commercially valued products coming from these projects; Available for immediate investment. ** (dual element example project within a fully integrated project to follow)

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Cabal Capital Management, L.L.C. is managed by Kent Sullivan: www.cabalcapitalmanagement.com

** Fully Integrated Oil & Gas / Real Example Project:

This Oil & Gas production program is headed up by a Top Level Senior International Consultant which is an Oil and Gas Industry Executive who has been involved in the Oil & Gas Industry over the past 50 years. This Oil & Gas Executive is the Systems Developer, Scientist, Equipment Designer and Engineer who is recognized as an expert in his field by the U.S. Department of Energy who also has called him upon him frequently in the past to trouble shoot particular Oil and Gas fields as a technical advisor and as a trouble shooter to rectify any and all problems associated with troubled oil and gas production fields.

This Top Senior International Consultant has a proprietary and proven 12 step methodology for siting, drilling, completing and production techniques for all wells. He has a historical commercial success rate of 92% for bringing in all of his wells sited, drilled, completed and producing which also has a normal life span of 15 to 20 plus year’s worth of production.

This Advanced High Income Generation Oil and Gas project is comprised of the following:

A Top Down Electric Air Hammer System which is highly sensorized with Professional Engineers and Scientists managing all operational positions. These auto sensor rigs provide detailed information by satellite to a centralized operations and training center where all decisions are made by people with 45 – 50 years of successful completion and production experience.

Each oil and gas well completed will be drilled in both soft and hard rock beds and will vary in depths from 3,000 feet to over 13,000 feet. All wells in this program will be completed initially in the state of Texas, in the United States of America.

Typical production wells will produce 60 barrels of oil per day to 500 – 600 barrels of oil per day and the gas wells will produce in a typical range of 2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to in excess of 20 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. The total net operating investment will be returned within 4 months of production for each well.

Multiple producing formations will be completed and isolated with proprietary tools and instruments which will be operated simultaneously through out the life of the wells. The typical life of these well are 15 – 20 years because of the 12 different proprietary methods used for siting, drilling, completion and production techniques, tools, proprietary materials and instruments used on each and every well which prevents formation damage and increases the life cycle of each well to maximize the highest production obtainable.

This program consists of hundreds of oil and gas wells sited, drilled, completed and in production within a 1 – 2 year period. These wells will be sited, drilled and completed in historically very well known and documented oil and gas producing formations within the state of Texas, in the United States of America.

Investors will receive an estimated 15 – 21% annual return per year on their investment, with payments coming at the end of each year from this program. The threshold investment will be an aggregate amount of $400 hundred million dollars which is what the minimum program investment calls for.

Estimated program revenues are based on $60 dollars a barrel and $6.5 dollars per thousand cubic foot of natural gas. Over the last year crude oil (West Texas Intermediate) has sold as low as $50 dollars a barrel up to as much as $147 dollars a barrel. Over the past year natural gas has sold from $5.5 dollars a thousand cubic foot to $11.3 dollars per thousand cubic foot.

Example Oil & Gas Well Profile: One well; properly sited, drilled, completed and producing will conservatively produce 100 barrels of oil per day and 4 million cubic foot of natural gas per day. This provides the overall program (100 barrels x $60 per barrel = $6,000) $6,000 dollars per day of revenue. Each 4,000 cubic foot of natural gas (4,000 x $6.5 per thousand cubic foot = $26,000) $26,000 dollars per day of revenue. Total revenue for this example is estimated at $32,000 dollars per day of program revenue for this example.

** All wells in this program will not produce the same **

Each month this represents a program return of (30 days x $32,000 = $960,000) $960,000 dollars of revenue coming from this one (1) example well. The investment program we are offering involve several hundreds of program wells being sited, drilled, completed and operating within a 1 to 2 year period.

Remember, this is only two elements of a fully integrated Advanced High Income Generation Project which will involve in most cases several other elements (normally 5 or more) to generate very substantial amounts of revenues over the course of the project life. With the combination of several other Advanced High Income Generation Elements within one project, this will enhance the financial returns and revenues of the program itself, and thus will also greatly reduce and virtually eliminate any associated risk due to the diversification of the different Major Income Generation elements within each project.

Once again, the result of this Special Investment Vehicle fund are highly advantageous investment opportunities that by far exceed the majority of investment opportunities from a financial return and an extremely low risk standpoint by investing in Outstanding Advanced High Income Generation Projects.

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Cabal Capital Management, L.L.C. is managed by Kent Sullivan: www.cabalcapitalmanagement.com

Sharia Compliant Investments Providing Consistent Annual Double Digit Returns for 10 – 20 – 30 Year in Extremely Low Risk Investments

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:55:44 +0000

Sharia-Compliant Fund Providing Extremely Low Risk Investments and Consistent Annual Double Digit returns for 10 – 20 – 30 Years!Cabal Capital Management, LLC announces the launch of the Legacy Fund which provides special alternative investment opportunities into extremely low risk, and very high financial return Advanced High Income Generation Projects through direct investments.

This fund which is not a private equity fund and is Sharia-Compliant is unlike all other investment pool funds, hedge funds, etc. that exist today by offering investments that are focused on both strategic and tactical investment opportunities into Highly Advanced Income Generating Project(s) producing crucial and vital, very high demand commercially valued product(s) that are being sold directly into the largest “Major” Consumer Universal Demand Markets in the world. These investments allow risk adverse accredited investors the ability to participate in the revenues generated from these projects which allows for and achieves both capital growth and preservation, while providing the investor an extremely low risk opportunity with the benefit of dependable and sustainable alpha generation and the long term growth from these projects. These fully integrated projects have been designed to last 40 to 50 years or longer for their life cycles regardless of the global financial and credit markets.

In the case of Deflationary and Inflationary Markets, they will have no real effect on these projects and the products they produce. Coincidentally inflation will only increase the value of the products coming out of the projects. Deflationary markets will have very minimal impact on the products produced within these projects since these products are and always will be vital for any country to maintain a stable economy, thus they will always be in very high demand through out the world regardless of the global economic conditions.

Since energy production and consumption is the key element to any industrialized country, and with energy consumption increasing globally at an annual rate of 5 – 6 %, energy is and always will be vital to both the U.S. and Western European Economies. Allocating to Energy and Bio-Fuels production are two major key areas of involvement and investments within our seven pronged program investment strategies approach, which consists of the following options available to us: Energy: Oil & Gas (Example Project to follow), Bio Fuels: Algae Based Bio-Diesel and Jatropha Curcas {plant} direct fuel source. Algae Based Bio-Diesel is a direct fuel source currently available and ready for full scale production and delivery {This is Direct Fuel Source and is not a blend for gasoline or other fuel sources!} Algae Based Bio-Diesel Fuel production utilizes proprietary photo enhanced, micro nutrient enhanced, continuous flow, automated, sensor quality controlled, bio-chemical industrial processes and then are pressed, centrifuged, oils separated from water, water treated, cooked, cracked and treated all within a 12 hour cycle (Start to Finish) to complete one batch made ready for use in any diesel engine. Initially 270 Million Gallons per quarter to several Billion Gallons of bio-diesel per quarter will be produced depending upon the initial size of a project program. This Algae Based Bio-Diesel Fuel source has a Cetane Rating of 105 -117 compared to 80 – 85 Cetane Rating for #1 diesel fuel currently produced by all the major oil companies, which provides more power, better millage and performance while emitting 60 – 70% less emissions across the board vs. normal standard crude oil based diesel fuels. This Algae Based Bio-Diesel product emits no sulfur and or nitrogen into the atmosphere, Alternative Energy: Solar / Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Production, Wind and Electric Fuel Cell Systems, Natural Resources: Gold, Platinum and other Precious Metals Groups and Diamond Mining: Refining, Assaying, Separation using advanced physical technologies and Bullion production of Gold and Platinum as well as Processing, Cutting, Valuation Appraisals of Diamonds and other Precious Stones, Water: Proprietary Water Science / Technology to Produce Fresh Drinking Water to meet Agricultural, Industrial and Human Public Health needs in critically water short areas through Water production, bottling facilities and distribution. This can be accomplished with any available water supply {in ground water tables, above and below ground reservoirs with a high saline content normally not recommended for human consumption}, Sea Waters & Brackish Waters anywhere Globally, Hydroponics: Food Production: Fish Shrimp, Prawns, Fruits Vegetables utilizing USDA inspectors to garner Grade A Choice Status to include direct marketing into Major U.S.A. and International Consumer Demand Markets, and Special Opportunities: Aviation Fuels: JP-1 to JP-12 for Commercial and Military Applications from Algae Based Direct Fuel Sources as well as Advanced Hyper-Speed Information Technologies and other Advanced High Income Generation Project Opportunities as they become available.

These projects are developed, implemented and managed by Highly Reliable, Senior Internationally Experienced Technical Managers, Senior Science Managers and Senior Logistics / Project Security Management Staff. There are in excess of 300 Top Level Executive Technical Managers with over 30 years of Experience in each of their perspective Development Sectors available for all projects that our fund invests in. These projects are designed to insure extreme depth of expertise and experience management which is available to any project at any and every stage of the project program, regardless of location of the project anywhere globally.

We understand that most Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Major International Banks, Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds, Private Equity Funds and others do not have the technical resources, capability, background and or understanding to evaluate, determine and differentiate between good and bad Large Advanced High Income Generation Projects, Project Developers, Project Implementation Capability and Management of Highly Integrated Multiple Income Steam Revenue Generation Projects.

This is the strength of the Asset Manager and where he excels; during the past several years he has been mentored, tutored and trained by some of the oldest and most highly respected, responsible, highly sought after and experienced Development Engineers who have planned, master planned, developed, managed, evaluated and trouble shot Economic Development Projects, Strong Multiple Stream Income Generation Projects, conducted Nation Building and Humanitarian Projects in over 65 countries during the past 40 years. The training he has received allows him to thoroughly review, comprehend and evaluate Project Development, Project Implementation, Logistics, Security and Management of these projects as well as the risk management associated with each potential investment. This process has provided him with the understanding, knowledge and insights of Project Development, Implementation, Logistics Operations and Infrastructure development of large income generation projects to determine unequivocally, which Highly Advanced Income Production Projects are viable and which ones are questionable investments at best.

Face to face meetings are welcomed and encouraged in order to qualify, verify and validate these investment opportunities which stem from the Americana way of project development and implementation with the application of Science, Engineering, Logistics, Security and Management which dates back to over 200 Years during the American Expansion of the United States of America. Never before in the history of mankind has the shear number and sizes of these Consumer Universal Demand Markets been in place and more importantly, primed and ready to handle and accept these vital, crucial and very high demand, commercially valued products coming from these projects.

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Cabal Capital Management, L.L.C. is managed by Kent Sullivan: www.cabalcapitalmanagement.com

** Fully Integrated Dual Element – Oil & Gas / Real Example Project **

This Oil & Gas production program is headed up by a Top Level Senior International Consultant who is an Oil and Gas Industry Executive which has been involved in the Oil & Gas Industry over the past 50 years. This Oil & Gas Executive is the Systems Developer, Scientist, Equipment Designer and Engineer who is recognized as an expert in his field by the U.S. Department of Energy who also has called him upon him frequently in the past to trouble shoot particular Oil and Gas fields as a technical advisor and as a trouble shooter to rectify any and all problems associated with troubled oil and gas production fields.

This Advanced High Income Generation Oil and Gas project is comprised of the following: A Top Down Electric Air Hammer System which is highly sensorized with Professional Engineers and Scientists managing all operational positions. These auto sensor rigs provide detailed information by satellite to a centralized operations and training center where all decisions are made by people with 45 – 50 years of successful completion and production experience.

** All wells in this program will not produce the same **

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Cabal Capital Management, L.L.C. is managed by Kent Sullivan: www.cabalcapitalmanagement.com