Hey there! This is the first time I have embarked on the Club Cafe experience but it looks to be useful. I have a scenerio that I would like to see if others have been through it and any advice you all may have. We ...
Good Morning Everyone, Here's a lighthearted perspective on stock prices from Stanley Bing. I thought you might appreciate it. http://stanleybing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/21/why-your-stock-just-tanked/ A good reminder to keep your eye on the fundamentals and wait for the craziness to provide you with good buying opportunities. Have a great ...
Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that Dashboard Diagnostics is tonight. You're all invited. You can register to attend at www.bivio.com/club_cafe Note that tonights session is at 9PM EDT rather than 8 Hope to see you then! -- Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Follow ...
It seems I have an increasing number of friends who have been telling me about how they really like their Netflix subscriptions so I was interested in a discussion currently going on in the ManifestInvesting forums about investing in their stock. This company is a ...
We sometimes get questions from clubs that think they've been reporting something correctly on their taxes but have not. The IRS does not make it easy to comply with some tax requirements. Doing things correctly sometimes requires more work than people realize. For example, tracking ...
Hi Everyone, The July meeting of the ManifestInvesting Challenge Club has been changed to July 24 at 11AM EDT. Everyone is invited. The meeting is free and there's always a great discussion. We have a lot of cash available to invest so come with investment ...
Do you have $200 per month that you want to put to good use? Should you prepay your mortgage? Invest? Pay off high interest credit card debt? Bonnie Biafore has an interesting discussion of this subject in her latest blog posting. http://blogs.oreilly.com/missingmanuals/blog/2010/07/alternatives_to_paying_off_you.html You might be ...
We received a few shares of Furiex Pharmaceuticals from a stock div\split of Pharmaceutical Product Dev Com in which the transaction did not come over from our brokerage account (T D Ameritrade). How should this transaction be handled in order to post correctly in BIVIO? ...
Concerning the death of a partner, our club's Partnership Agreement states that "payment shall be made when a proper demand accompanied by the appropriate legal authorization is received by the partnership." However, no one seems to know just what the proper demands or appropriate legal ...
As someone who tends to worry too much, I find the risk factors section of Annual reports can be fascinating. This is where company management details all the things they see that might happen that would cause a material change in their business results. Some ...
Hello everyone, We have good news and bad news. The bad news is that we don't need to have a Twitter contest because the good news is that @bivio became available and we got it. Thank you to those who entered. I'll be contacting the ...
There is a lot of interest in dividend paying stocks right now. It's good to be aware of dividend payment dates so that you don't buy or sell on the wrong day and miss out! There are four dates that are discussed when companies pay ...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal " One of my favorite TV episodes is the scene from the 2008 miniseries "John Adams", where the continental congress approves the Declaration of Independence. The series is so realistic that the ...
We sometimes have investment club treasurers who are worried they can't handle the job tell us, "I'm not an accountant". The whole point of using bivio is so that you don't need to be an accountant to be an investment club treasurer. Beneath the easy ...
We sometimes get questions in support asking what to do when amounts for member payments or withdrawals have been entered twice in your records. Usually this happens because you enter them manually (when you receive checks or enter a withdrawal), and then when the checks ...