Intergalactic Summit

I have a battalion of security troops that I operate under license as a private security firm. Right now they're fully deployed keeping the peace in a high stress environment. That company is mostly operated by the Brigadier-General who heads the TO&E whilst I provide the money and some of the specialist know-how in multicultural security operations that's sort of become my specialty.

Most of the balance of my wealth is invested in Kaalakiota voting stock. That's an investment that's already paid dividends, I can tell you - I got in when the price dropped during the Heth debacle. Like most people I don't have the time to sufficiently educate myself on the issues enough to objectively utilise my votes for the greater good, so I have contracted them over to a professional.They are handled by the Tuulinen Foundation for a Better State, which handles those shares, my charitable interests and also maintains a robust and diversified portfolio of investments.

Until recently those investments have been solely within the State. I briefly explored the idea of investing in Minmatar Infrastructure improvement projects, but Pyre's recent deployment choices have made that more problematic, so those ideas are in abeyance. I have some investments in Empire corporations who were behind the investments in State corporations 15 years ago. Call it counter-battery fire - I at least want foreknowledge if those relationships start going sour.

I tend to invest in technological developments, especially along the lines of high-grade remote electronics and signals systems. Now and then, I'll throw money at up and coming militia pilots if I see them having a run of bad luck, or old colleagues I used to know back in the Navy during my baseliner days.

But my main investment is in the infrastructure and terraforming of my home planet. There is a lot of work that needs to be done, and as one of the very few actual Capsuleers from my homeworld, I am in a position to speed that work along greatly.

I invest in my little fathers gambling addiction. The requests are getting bigger and bigger by the month, so I can only assume it is a growth industry.

No, but in all seriousness: I own and fund a small charity that assists disenfranchised or unemployable individuals in the State in immigrating to the Gallente Federation. It is fine that State society expects very specific things of people for them to be accepted, but it is unfair that those who are not suited to or are unable to meet those expectations are doomed to short lives of petty crime and painful instability on their homeworlds simply because they cannot even afford travel to a society where they would be better suited. I hope to alleviate the problem.

Pieter,

I think you misunderstand what I mean by "unemployable". I don't mean people who have had a bad run of luck and need help to get back on their feet. I'm talking more about the incompatible - Those with mental disorders, fundamentally anti-authoritarian worldviews, and publically outed homosexuals. Not the sort of stuff you could "fix".

Also, I was mostly joking about my father. I come from a very wealthy, old family - He probably has more money than I do, albeit tied up in investments. He doesn't need my income, but he paid for my schooling to begin with and is the only reason I'm here at all, so I send him a little every month just out of goodwill. Also, so he doesn't go into my room and throw out all of my old stuffed animals.

He's going through a bit of a difficult period right now, though, and extra earnings for people in unhappy states of mind tend to be, er, not the most wisely spent.

Let me try and explain the emotional baggage involved in being part of a large, close family in way you'll be familiar with, Pieter. You worked for the Peace and Order unit - You must have been exposed to kidnappings a few times, so you're probably acquainted with the concept of "Capture-bonding", of people forming bizzarely close and usually unhealthy relationships in the context of the extreme intimacy between captor and captee. Now, most kidnappings don't last more then a couple months at most, so those sort of things must happen pretty fast, right?

Now imagine it lasting for twenty years.

Well... Yes... Generally we try to resolve issues of unlawful restraint and keeping someone against their will long before mid to long term psychological effects manifest, but I'm familiar with the concepts.

Maker's breath... Is that what families are REALLY like? I have to be honest, this concerns me greatly!

I personally invest in triple-rated Goonswarm Federation bonds. I'm really glad that my financial advisor; also in goonswarm, was able to secure some for me.

My investments vary but I specialise in raw materials, be they basic minerals or advanced salvage from destroyed Sleeper drones. There is plenty of demand on the lower-industries, and this demand makes for good trading if you're comfortable with the ebb and flow of the market in question.

Formerly I have actually invested in capsuleers, specifically their industrial multi-tasking capabilities. By paying a portion of prospective profit to my builders, I was able to greatly increase productivity at a reasonable short-term price. Should I get the time, i may start up again, but it was certainly intensive on my spare hours; I won't be doing it again without additional help and a substantial amount of time to throw at the system.

My holdings outside the capsuleer sphere are negligible, I see no reason to dabble outside my current sphere until I either retire, or legislation makes it desirable or necessary to my continued comfort and wealth.

take a look at my bio. there. that should do it.

im proud of what i do, but saying more is... frowned upon...

I mainly invest in the family business. Which comprises a good few things aside to military education and services. Like silk spiders. Also caritative endeavours. As the family invested in me becoming a capsuleer, it's my responsibility to reciprocate, in a way.

Next to that, as far as it concerns planetside investments, I did put some money in the building and operation of churches.

In general, I don't bother myself with acquiring wealth I have no use for, though. So I don't have the problem of having money and not knowing what to do with it.