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Update on TDAmeritrade/Schwab Changes
Hi All, I decided to see if there was any further information on when TDAmeritrade accounts would be changing to Schwab accounts.A I found these FAQ's on the Schwab website: FAQ's From what I can see there,A it appears you may not see any changes ...
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ETF Help
Does bivio Support still offer help to member clubs sasking for advice on an ETF for a possible investment? I wrote a while back and haven't heard! Thanks so much!
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Educational Activity for Your Clubs
Looking for an educational activity for your club meetings? The SEC has some fun little quizzes about finance and investing that you mightA find interesting to work through together.A You can find them here: SEC Investing Quizzes Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become ...
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IRS Issues
Are other groups experiencing issues with the IRS? On Tax year 2020 we filled the 1065 on March 11 (Postmark)A They, apparently, received the mail (Receipt stamped March 30th) They assessed our club with a steep penalty.A Of course we will contest the penalty via ...
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IRS Issues
Speaking as a Dept of Treasury employee I can tell you that the IRS is composed of real people who want to solve issues. The dramatic Congressional budget cuts over the past 20 years have ravaged the customer service ranks and long waits such as ...
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Member advance payments
I have gotten conflicting advice on how to handle member payments made in advance.A So I'm asking for your thoughts.A A Our Operating Agreement states: "Members must invest a minimum of $25.00 per month to their capital account, payable at each regularly scheduled meeting.A Members ...
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Fees on Withdrawal Payouts
Hi all, We had a club ask us to give them of an example of how a "Fee" (penalty) charged on a withdrawal affected the withdrawal payout and the accounts of the other members in the club.A A We put together this simple example to ...
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Bye Bye Toolkit, its like losing an old friend
In today's Chapter Advance Change in ICLUBcentral's Products for Sale Per the organization's long-term strategic plan, sales of ICLUBcentral's Toolkit 6 to new users will be discontinued on September 30th, but the software continues to be supported with access to the automatic data feed from ...
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Other investment clubs in Nebraska
I would like to know if there is a Chapter Directory of Better Investing clubs in our area. We'd like to meet and perhaps have joint meetings with other like minded investors. I am especially interested in clubs in the eastern part of Nebraska; Omaha, ...
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Please Give a Warm Welcome To.......
Please join us in giving a warm welcome to the two newest members of our bivio support staff, Joanne Hermiston and Becky Kruse. Joanne is a detail-oriented and customer focused professional with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. She has expertise in accounting, financial processes, business ...
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Joining Your Club
Hello Laurie, Is your club open for new members? I would love to explore your club's membership requirement. Minh T. Le On Aug 17, 2021, at 8:48 AM, Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz> wrote:  When answering questions like this, there are two good places to start: ...
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Death of a member
When a member dies, is the valuation date the date of their death or 2 days prior to the first meeting after their death.
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keeping club records
Our club is taking on the task of consolidating old binders. From looking through past questions, sounds like we need to keep tax returns forever but can get rid of supporting documents after 7 years, keeping stock buy and sell info for 7 years after ...
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Fidelity & Check writing
Our Investment Club recently had to change brokers to Fidelity. Our Financial Partner is learning that Fidelity doesn't seem to want to let an Investment Club have checks. How do clubs using Fidelity write checks to pay for their expenses like Bivio and Better Investing ...
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Bivio tax question
 My club just had one of the founding members leave the club. He offered, and we considered, transferring stocks to him. In the end it was agreed to have the club sell the stocks in January and we will all pay our share of ...
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