Category Archive: Investment Club

Jan
05

Investment Club Continues to Beat the S&P 500

I don’t own any individual stocks in my investment portfolio.  Frankly, I believe that a rebalanced portfolio of indexes, over my lifetime, will beat the aggregate returns of a stock portfolio that I might bust my butt to compile.  Investing has never been “fun” for me.  I’m pretty dispassionate about it, and I’ve been that …

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Aug
18

Investment Club Receives Free Berkshire Hathaway Shares!

My apologies for not keeping up with my blog articles and comments lately.  I’ve been swamped with book production details, and a series of deadlines for some articles that I’m publishing.  I was also kept busy, speaking at the Singapore InvestFair on Sunday, which drew a healthy crowd of investors who probably thought (mistakenly, I …

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Aug
12

A Close Look at Our Recent Investment Club’s Performance

As many of you know, I manage an investment club that has been around since 1999. During the 2010 calendar year, we beat the S&P 500 index for the 9th year in a row. You might be curious how our club has fared during the recent market drop.  Here’s the data, viewed from a variety …

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Aug
04

Investment Club’s Shares Disappear – Again!

It looks like another one of our lovingly compiled investment club stocks has just been taken from our investment club’s brokerage account. Berkshire Hathaway has purchased all of the remaining Wesco financial shares that it didn’t already own, and those of us who owned Wesco, now find ourselves with a new lump of cash in …

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Mar
09

Investment clubbing play money

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As many of you already know, I’ve been involved in an investment club since 1999.  But I don’t recommend investment clubbing as a way to get rich.  Overall, investment club performances tend to be quite poor.  As Larry Swedroe points out, in his excellent book, The Quest For Alpha, club performances lagged the stock market …

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Jan
31

Investment Club Off To a Strong 2011

After fully indexing my personal portfolio, I’m still getting a kick out of battling the S&P 500 index with our investment club.  This, I think, is going to be my competitive outlet. From October 7th, 1999 to January 27th, 2011, we have compounded our money at 8.9% annually. Our current balance is $548,074.76 U.S. We’re …

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Jan
04

2010 Investment Club Calendar Year Return

If I believed that I (or this investment club) could beat the stock market from now until I’m an old man, then I would sell my indexes and invest only in individual stocks. But I don’t believe that’s very probable. Track records don’t mean much in this business, so when investing fresh money, it’s foolish …

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Dec
17

Investment Club Update – 17-DEC-10

Based on the 12 month period from December 17th, 2009 to December 17th, 2010, our account has risen 18.5% For this update, I thought I’d do some different comparisons for you.  When Money Magazine published its top mutual funds to buy, for 2010, I watched with interest.  I was curious to see how those funds …

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Dec
01

Manic Stock Market Moves and The Delusions of the “Intelligent”

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Right when it looked like the S&P 500 stock market index was going to spoil the party by catching our investment club’s portfolio for the calendar year of 2010, it stumbled and we distanced the index yet again. I’m making it sound like a sporting event on ESPN.  That’s on purpose.  The stock markets are …

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Nov
30

Just when you thought you could beat the market!

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The 3M investment club isn’t really trying to beat the market for the ninth year in the row. It would be nice if we did. But trying to do something like that would be silly. In some ways, it’s a bit like watching a rising tide, concentrating on it, and “trying” to make it wash …

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Oct
28

Investment Club Performances and Holdings – 28-OCT-10

Investment Club Performances and Holdings Our investment club has been running since October 7, 1999.  Our average annual return has been 8.1%.  We have beaten every equity based mutual fund from the biggest actively managed mutual fund company in America … read more —with the sole exception of the American Fund’s New World Fund, which …

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Oct
03

Investment Club Performance Revealed

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Our investment club is like a baseball team that keeps hitting singles. Nothing flies out of the ball park, but we commit to the stocks we buy, average down on them if their prices drop, and with patience, we’ve made it to home plate, over and over again. Someone dollar cost averaging into our investment …

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