Scottrade recently launched the Flexible Dividend Reinvestment program. Our club had a lengthy discussion on the pro's, con's and different strategies we could use with this option. If you are using this feature, what kind of strategy are you utilizing?
A member has proposed buying 7-Eleven which is only available for purchase on the Japanese stock exchange. Fidelity has some mechanism for buy on foreign exchanges. Questions - any BIVIO implications? Any US Tax considerations? Thx Jay
Some of you helped Ben Landau from the University of Wisconsin do some research by taking a short survey he put together and shared recently. There were some interesting results from it that he said I could share. For example: Ben is working on fine ...
The link I posted Monday indicated that one of the areas with the largest potential for growth in the US economy was energy. If your investment club owns or is interested in looking into some energy companies, you might be interested in some of the ...
Some of you may remember earlier this year when we asked for ideas for a club that was celebrating their 25th anniversary. They've let us know how it turned out: Our investment club celebrated our 25th anniversary in June with a limo ride into Philly ...
Barry Ritholz shared a thought provoking article over the weekend: Curse of the Narrative: Everybody Loves a Good Story I thought this quote was especially interesting: He is right: None of those things has come to pass. Even worse, the fear traders have missed a ...
I'm an undergraduate student at UW-Madison and have been a Bivio member for three years. My investment group, the Badger Absolute Return Fund, had found a number of difficulties with existing investment software, and many of these difficulties were related to the time it takes ...
It appears that BRLI has a extremely high short ratio of 38%. This means that a lot people are selling this stock short because they believe that the stock price will tank. I don't know if there is something going on with this company to ...
This question was just asked to the list, and I thought I would give it its own topic. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Ghazali Raheem < ghazr09@gmail.com > wrote: Where would I go to find a listing of local investment clubs in ...
Right after the Facebook (FB) IPO, we posted this summary of how bivio investment clubs had participated: bivio Retail Investors and Facebook (FB) At that time, approximately 6000 shares were purchased by approximately 3% of your clubs. As of yesterday, approximately 6% of your clubs ...
Coach is a popular holding by your investment clubs. Over 10% of you own shares. Their earnings came out this morning and the market is not happy with the decrease in earnings and the unexpected departure of several key executives. If you'd like to do ...
Hi All, A club has asked me to ask you your input on this question: Our club has a required minimum contribution of $25.00 per month. We are considering an increase. Can you tell me the average monthly contribution of other clubs? If any of ...
Of course, the club needs to abide by their partnership agreement, and change that document if they to change percentage of ownership or how the club votes. Jenny Sue Hayward Emerald Coast Investment Club, LLP Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Lynn Ostrem ...
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone Original message From: Connie Humble <chumble@sdplains.com> Date: 07/27/2013 2:38 PM (GMT-06:00) To: club_cafe@bivio.com Subject: Re: [club_cafe] RE: [club_cafe] Minimum Monthly Contribution WE have been at $35 for seveal years Women Investing Now, Newell, SD Original Message From: ...
Qualcomm (QCOM) has moved into 10th position in our list of most widely held stocks by clubs that you can find on the right side of our homepage. My club is one of those and we are happy about the recent earnings report and subsequent ...