Just a reminder that tonights webinar "An Orientation To Investment Club Record Keeping", is the first in our three part treasurer training series. Not only is it good information to know if you are an investment club treasurer, it is a good overview of how ...
Stock prices are affected by expectations of the buyers in the market. One of the places those expectations come from is guidance about future results issued by companies themselves. Guidance is not required. If companies are going to provide expectations for things like future sales ...
Here is an interesting piece of information you won't find anywhere else. Approximately 3% of your investment clubs bought Facebook (FB) on Friday for a weighted average price of $40.25 per share. In total, apparently 20-25% of FB shares went to retail investors. Of the ...
Direct investment programs were great when commissions were much larger than the $10 or so most pay today. Direct investment programs used within a club environment can create some undesirable problems. First is the delay between making an investment decision and when that buy/sell is ...
Are any of your clubs considering a purchase of Facebook? Here are some interesting graphics that put their market cap in perspective: http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-facebook-ipo-in-perspective Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become our Facebook friend! www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com/bivio Click here to Subscribe to ...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/05/facebooks-flotation-0 It talks about the GM problem. It also links to this interesting infographic: http://www.wordstream.com/articles/facebook-vs-google-display-network The infographic is hard to read, but it contains a lot of interesting information if you put the puzzle pieces together. Cheers, Rob
Our friends at Trefis have an interesting analysis and model of Facebook valuation that you can use to help you decide what it is worth. They consider an $82 Billion valuation for Facebook to be more appropriate than the $100+ Valuation expected. If you feel ...
Join us online tonight at 8:30PM ET and help us to manage this virtual club portfolio: http://www.manifestinvesting.com/dashboards/public/challenge-club The discussion is sure to give you some ideas for managing your own investment club portfolio. It's free and everyone is invited. You can just listen or you ...
Wanted to get some thoughts from any club that uses a direct investment program instead of an online brokerage account. We currently use TD Ameritrade and have been pleased with them, but are thinking of checking into a cheaper alternative. Our club is very small ...
We have been together since 2006, since members are moving away, and not enough of us to keep the club going, we decided to dissolve the club. What steps should we take to get the ball going. Just need to do this before anyone moves ...
How much do you really know about your clubs finances? It's important that every member of an investment club have a basic understanding of investment club finances and how your club records need to be kept. This will help you prevent misunderstandings and tax problems. ...
HI all, Members have a request about a couple of BIVIO reports. At the end of the investment performance report I get: "AIRR on Investments (excludes cash) = 7.4%" The I run a performance benchmark and I get IRR Portfolio Value Partnership of Rogue Traders ...
Hello Everyone, If you are participating in the Quest for Positive Relative Returns, your graphs have been updated through April 1. You can access them through the link you'll find on your club pages. As you can see from the cumulative graph below, on average, ...
Dashboard Diagnostics is tonight, May 9 at 8:30PM ET. Mark Robertson will be reviewing the portfolio of an investment club from Spokane Washington. We're told it will be the Manifest Investing version of Lightening and Thunder. Not sure what that refers to. Guess we'll all ...
Would your investment club like to have an evaluation of your club portfolio? Would you like a new perspective on what you might do next? If so, we're always looking for clubs interested in participating in our ever popular monthly Dashboard Diagnostics series. During Dashboard ...