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Is Your Investment Club Interested in This Company?
Gilead (GILD) is the second A most popular A stock owned by bivio investment clubs. Our friends at A Stockrover A have put together this comprehensive writeup about Gilead for you. It demonstrates how to use the information on their site to help you make ...
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Spin Off
I was checking on our short term and long term capital gains agains our brokers report to make sure everything matched before I need to deal with taxes and found that DuPont either spun off or changed company names to Chemours Company and when we ...
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Tracking preformace of stock held by club
Does anyone out there have a good spreadsheet to track Club stock purchased and if they are meeting the SSG performance by quarter/year. In bivio it will show your annualized return. I am looking for something that will show our club members if we are ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour
I ran across this video by Bill Ackman recently and thought some of you might find watching it a good educational activity for your investment clubs.A I think he does a good job covering a lot of basic investing topics.A The information is presented very ...
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GE Offering of Synchrony (SYF) Stock
GE is the third most widely held stock by bivio investment clubs.A One club recently asked about documents they had received from their broker that asked if they wanted to exchange some of their shares of GE stock for Synchrony (SYF) shares.A This has come ...
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Discrepancy between Bivio and Brokerage (Scottrade) account
Re: South Shore Seniors Investment Club. Laurie, we've got a major difference between figures shown on these two accounts on our 10/02/2015 sale of 35 shares of CAT. A It seems that Bivio assumes that the sale was FIFO.A CAT was purchased in several small ...
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Anybody Want to Know the Ticker?
I just saw this ad on the IBD website.A It cracked me up: a€‹ Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become our Facebook friend! A www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us on twitter!A A www.twitter.com/bivio Follow Us on Google+ Click here to A Subscribe A to the ...
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The Influence of Psychology on Investing
During this earnings season,A I've been watching some of the prices of stocks I own react both positively and negatively in what seems to be somewhat irrational ways to the earnings announcements. A This article hit home with its reminders of the role that human ...
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Watch Lists
Hi All, Looking for some feedback if you have a minute: 1.A How many of you maintain a Watch List? 2.A If you do, how do you determine what stocks go on it? 3.A For the stocks on it,A what do you watch?A Price, fundamentals ...
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Looking For Educational Topics For Your Investment Club?
Each month, my investment club is reading and discussing a chapter from the book: The 5 Rules For Successful Stock Investing The book is written by Pat Dorsey, who was the Director of Equity Research for Morningstar.com It's easy to read and it gives a ...
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Misrepresentation of Earnings
If you are predicting growth in stock prices using earnings reports, it is interesting to learn about the quality of the information provided in those reports.A A survey of 400 CFO's was done recently: The Misrepresentation of Earnings The results are very interesting.A Their sentiment ...
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library availability
Just as an aside, many libraries will borrow a particular book from wherever it might be. It's called interlibrary loans depending on library system have borrowed books from university libraries, etc, world catalog lists every book and the closest library w a particular holding Be ...
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Bankrupt Corporation
Ask your brokerage company how they will handle the bankruptcy. It helps if they show it on the year-end 1099-B statement. Sometimes they will show it as a sale for a penny. If they don't report it they should remove it from your portfolio and ...
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Bankrupt Corporation
Laurie, Our club took a gamble and invested in a company that went bankrupt and is no longer being traded (Sabine Oil & Gas, SOGC). I recieved a letter from a US Circuit Court that we cannot sell our defunct shares. How do we report ...
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Question and Answer Sheets
Hi All, Thanks for the feedback on the question and answer sheets posted for the educational activity here: 5 Rules For Successful Stock Investing I've changed the format of the sheets and you should find them much easier to read and use now. Laurie Frederiksen ...
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