Only 10,000 copies of the Pirelli Calendar are printed each year, and it’s not for sale. The calendar is only ever given away, with the mailing list held as a closely-guarded secret, and only about 400 come to Australia.
Carsguide has managed to get hold of one of those, and together with Pirelli, is offering the chance to win it.
The models for the 2009 Pirelli Calendar are as beautiful as always, with Daria Werbowy of Canada, Emanuela de Paula and Isabeli Fontana from Brazil, Lara Stone and Rianne Ten Haken from Holland, Malgosia Bela of Poland and Italy's Mariacarla Boscono posing for the pictures shot by famed wildlife photographer Peter Beard.
However, it means the girls have been put in some bizarre situations, in one case in tears with a huge insect crawling on the model’s face.
To enter Carsguide’s calendar competition, tell us if you think the 2009 Pirelli Calendar is beautiful or bizarre – and why. The best comment will win the calendar, a couple of early examples of which have already sold on ebay for around $1000.
The Italian tyre company is also offering the chance to win a Volkswagen Pirelli Golf GTI and other prizes – including $100,000 in cash. To enter their competition, buy a Pirelli tyre at any of the participating stores before 30 April 2009, go to the Pirelli website to enter your purchase details.
Daniel Kertcher established Platinum Pursuits in 2001 as a vehicle in which to share his knowledge of strategies to use the financial markets to grow wealth, with the aim of achieving financial freedom by making your money work for you.
His argument is that until you become financially literate and develop a method where you're able to get a reasonable return on your capital (i.e. making your money work for you), you will instead be forever working hard for your money.
Daniel Kertcher personally achieved financial freedom at a relatively young age, through his knowledge of property and then financial markets investing. Through using Options and leveraged instruments such as CFDs, Daniel developed a system to trade the markets where he could benefit from the leverage when the trade went in the direction he predicted, and hedged his positions so that there was a limited downside risk.
Some people in the past have criticised Daniel's message of striving for financial freedom in a high-risk environment such as trading derivatives. However, it is not Daniel's or Platinum Pursuits' goal to encourage everyone to trade the financial markets. Every kind of investing contains an element of risk, so this level of education is aimed specifically for those who want an understanding of professional trading techniques and strategies that they hope to apply to their own capital, and it is absolutely true that many people are not yet in a position to invest a chunk of their savings.
To be truly financially literate, it can pay to explore all the options available when you are in a position to try to get ahead in life. Daniel currently presents free introductory seminars nationally on selected dates from February to November.
