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Tracking Investment Notes
It's good to keep track of the judgments you used to make your investing decisions and to revisit them whenever new data is available. This might happen when quarterly and annual earnings come out or when some significant news item comes out about a company. ...
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Two Things to Do Now to Get Ready for Tax Season
It's a slow start to this years tax season. The IRS is not even accepting individual returns prior to January 30. We target to have the 2012 program released for you to do your club taxes in mid to late February. You don't want to ...
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Abbot Spin-off
We are meeting this Sunday and I noticed that our bivio account does not show the ABT spin-off correctly. We use Scottrade and they show the correct amount. Should I just wait to see the correct amounts or do you fix it at your end. ...
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Kudos
Thanks to Laurie for great account support in untangling a problem in our club's accounting!!!
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Abbott/AbbVie Spinoff
Anyone know exactly how to record in Bivio the company split that Abbott Labs just executed? I have our account sync with TDAmeritrade but there seems to be a lack of transactions in our TDAmeritrade account. We now have equal shares to Abbott and Abbvie ...
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Resolutions: Of Chocolate and Lemonade
Happy New Year, everybody! Did you know that the fourth highest day of chocolate consumption is January 4 th ? Yes, trailing only Easter, Christmas and Valentine's Day ... today marks the crashing thud of many New Year's resolutions. We believe in the premise and ...
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An Ounce of Prevention....
Hi Everyone, We've posted this in the past, but we can't say it enough. It is very important to understand that every investment you can purchase from a brokerage that has a ticker symbol is not necessarily regular common stock. It is important to understand ...
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Walking Main Street
As we've noted recently, Eddy Elfenbein at http://www.crossingwallstreet.com has managed to outperform the S&P 500 for the last six years. (1) He thinks like us and rummages around in our favorite baskets of stocks. (2) How many stock funds have a 6-year winning streak? ZERO. ...
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MANIFEST 40: Most Widely-Followed Stocks
The most widely-followed stocks by Manifest Investing subscribers have generated a +3.3% relative return over 7.25 years with an accuracy rating of 62.2%. Most widely-followed: Apple (AAPL) Gaining Attention: Coach (COH), Bio-Reference Labs (BRLI), Resmed (RMD) http://expectingalpha.com/2012/12/31/manifest-40-december-2012/ Have a healthy and wealth-building 2013! Mark Robertson ...
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Happy Final Day of 2012!
We've all survived the end of the world in 2012 so we have a lot to be grateful for. As Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and critic said: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." Wishing you ...
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Accounting for a dividend after it was sold
Fellow Treasurers, We sold TEVA last month, after the record date, but before the dividend was received. Since we now longer own TEVA how do we record the dividend? thanks. Kevin Gillogly HDIC
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A Season of Giving - Week 3
"No one has ever become poor by giving".- Anne Frank Hope everyone has been having a wonderful holiday season! Thank you for all who have shared the stories of the gifts their club has given their community during the past year. Congratulations to the first ...
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Crossing Wall Street - 2013 Stock Picks
When somebody who looks at stocks the way you do beats the market for the last six years running aren't you even mildly curious about his 20 favorites for 2013? http://expectingalpha.com/2012/12/22/crossing-wall-street-2013/ Have a joyous and safe holiday, Mark Robertson Manifest Investing
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MANIFEST Christmas Countdown Continues
Our holiday stock selection countdown has continued to include companies: 12. CVS Caremark (CVS) 11. Wiley & Sons (JW-A) 10. Mesa Labs (MLAB) 9. rue21 (RUE) 8. QUALCOMM (QCOM) 7. Oracle (ORCL) 6. Microsoft (MSFT) Links to each of the individual entries are available at ...
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This Week's Value Line Updates & CSCO Swoon
The overall low total return forecast continued to recede this week. The most notable change in forecast was Cisco Systems (CSCO) where the reduction in the 3-5 year price forecast was substantial. We'll be taking a closer look at CSCO later today. http://expectingalpha.com/2012/12/17/vl-low-total-return-screen-12212012/
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