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From our friend Morgan Housel.A The real news for today: An Honest Stock Market Update Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become our Facebook friend! A www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us on twitter!A www.twitter.com/bivio Follow Us on Google+ Click here to Subscribe to the Club Cafe ...
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Member Contribution
Laurie, We have a member who wants to make a sizable contribution to increase his holdings in our investment club. I'm aware it doesn't affect the value of other club members, and his contribution will buy "units" which will result in recalculation (downward) of each ...
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disruptive new member
Does anyone have anything in their bylaws about withdrawing a disruptive (new) member from the club by majority vote?
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disruptive new member
In the by laws you can have a clause that a member can be removed for any reason by a majority vote of the officers of the club. (It could be a vote of the partners, but that might result in bad feelings if it ...
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Managing Your Investment Club and Handling Disruptive Members
The discussion here recently about handling a disruptive member is one some of you can probably relate to. If you Google things like "Managing Disruptive Group Members", you will find quite a few useful ideas for dealing with that situation in groups such as your ...
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Cost Basis and Purchase of Units
In Better Investing Voice Russell Malley says: One misconception is that the cost basis of the members is associated with specific purchases of units, with each purchase having its own cost basis similar to mutual fund shares. This isn't true. As general partnerships, investment clubs ...
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4 Ways To Tell If You're Investing in A Partnership Rather Than Stock
Here's a good question we recently received from one of your investment clubs: "What's the best clue that something is a MLP or a LP as opposed to a stock?A Is there a site that provides their structure?A We don't need any tax hassles or ...
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Where Do Your Investment Clubs Meet?
Hi, I was in a McDonalds while on a road trip recently and it had a nice glass walled meeting room area off the main lobby.A I hadn't seen that before,A it might have been a former playground space.A It looked to me like a ...
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withdrawal fee
Hello All, I am writing again about our club's withdrawal fee. Our club charges a withdrawal fee which at times can amount to a sum of several hundred dollars. How should this be entered in Bivio accounts so that the withdrawing member's records are correct ...
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withdrawal fee
Thank you that is pretty clear. On Monday 25/08/2014 at 3:15 pm, Laurie Frederiksen wrote: Hi, Here are the instructions for entering a withdrawal: https://www.bivio.com/site-help/bp/Member_Withdrawal_Help The withdrawal fee is one of the pieces of information you include on the withdrawal form. When you accept the ...
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Stages of Group Development
A professor named Bruce Tuckerman described 5 stages that groups go through. They are Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning. You can find some very interesting descriptions of each of these stages here: Using the Stages of Team Development and here: Forming, Storming, Norming and ...
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withdrawal fee
Thank you all for your information on the Withdrawal fee topic. On Tuesday 26/08/2014 at 11:34 am, John Rice wrote: I agree with Mike. We do have a withdraw fee, although we should call it a penalty to discourage someone from joining and then leaving ...
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Transferring Shares That Have Gone Up in Value to Pay a Withdrawal
Hi John, I'm not sure why the other members would have an issue transferring your appreciated stocks.A They have postponed recognizing the gains in them which is a good thing.A A Your club could also repurchase them immediately if they still liked the companies and ...
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Disbanning
If 5 out of 7 want to dis-ban, can we dis-ban?
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Tax Inversions and Your Investment Club
The hot topic for investors these days is tax inversions.A These happen when a company reorganizes from being based in the US to being based in another country in an effort to avoid US taxes. There are several companies that are popular in the bivio ...
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