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25 Years and Going Strong!
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 ...
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Stories and Facts
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 ...
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Investment Survey
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 ...
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Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI)
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 ...
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Investment Clubs In Maryland
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 ...
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Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) Ticker Research Page
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 ...
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Coach (NYSE: COH) Ticker Research Page
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 ...
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Minimum Monthly Contribution
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 ...
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Minimum Monthly Contribution
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 ...
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Minimum Monthly Contribution
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: ...
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Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM)
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 ...
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Swarm Behavior
It's interesting to watch this: http://bit.ly/1aMN1Gs and think about the actions of investors in the stock market. For fish, it may be that the "Wisdom of crowds" comes from their swarm behavior. So as investors do we want to learn to be the fish and ...
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Sprint Softbank Reorganization
Any of you who owned Sprint when it was purchased by Softbank had several payment options offered by Softbank for your Sprint shares. The default, if you didn't choose something else, was to receive Cash and stock. We have made AccountSync entries which assume you ...
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By-Laws
We are looking to revise our by-laws and wondered if there were any good examples of what should be in them on the bivio web site or if any clubs had good, well written ones.
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ISRG
It looks like over 6 percent of your investment clubs own or have owned ISRG. Anybody have any thoughts they'd like to share about them? Anybody have any experience with their robotic surgeries, either professionally or as a patient? They recently guided lower on sales ...
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