Young Investors Society proudly sponsored “Learn How to Be an Investor” Night at Oak Park High School on December 4th. And what an awesome night it was! Rowe Michels, CFA, Director of Research at Tradewinds Global Investors was the keynote speaker along with James Fletcher, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Kayne Anderson Rudnick. Everyone participated in investing […]
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The stock of GameStop (GME) has been under severe pressure even as the holiday season is getting going. The company reported quarterly earnings that disappointed analysts. Still, GME management insists that they can still make the ambitious full-year guidance, implying they expect strong business in the current quarter, which includes all those holiday purchases. […]
Young Investors Society is proud to host a “Learn How to Be An Investor” Night. The event is FREE and is open to all teenagers in the Southern California area who want to learn how to build wealth and navigate the stock market. When: December 4th from 6pm to 9pm. Where: Oak Park High School […]
November 18, 2015 Young Investors Society Spotlight with Claudio Brocado Background: Claudio Brocado is a seasoned financial professional with over twenty years in the financial industry (sell-side as well as over sixteen years buy-side, including firms such as RCM, Putnam, Fidelity and Batterymarch). Claudio has substantial global expertise and interest, complemented by formal studies in […]
Congratulations to Oak Park Young Investors Society for being featured in the school paper!!! You guys are totally killing it. Check out this awesome article below…
THE SEVEN GOLDEN RULES Being successful at anything requires following a set of rules. Good rules are the accumulation of decades of wisdom summed up into the few components that really matter. Successful football players win because they avoid penalties and because of the way they train. Successful students get A’s because of the way […]
Let’s start with a question: Are you a spender or an investor? Pop Quiz. Ready. Go. Question #1 I’ll give you $100 today or a new Mercedes next year? Which one will you take? A) The cash B) The car C) Why are you even looking at other options, you’d be crazy not to take […]
HOW DO I KNOW IF A BUSINESS IS A GOOD INVESTMENT? Imagine we have two friends both opening stores. Our first friend, Jack, wants to open a chain of candy stores. It costs him $2,000 to build a candy store, and each earns him $1,000 per year in profits. That’s a whopping 50% return on […]
Let’s play a game. Ready? Open a financial newspaper like the Wall Street Journal, turn to the stock quote section, and pick any company at random, and look at the high and low from the past year. Ok, let’s see here. We have GM. They make cars and trucks. Over the past 52 weeks, their stock traded as […]
We’ll only invest in a company when the price we pay today is significantly less than the value we will get tomorrow. But how do we know what the value of the company is? Let’s take Apple. What is the value of the world’s largest business of consumer electronics? Well, the value of any business is […]