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***Like what you read? Please sign up here to receive new posts directly to your inbox. One chapter of my new book, Tradestream your Way to Profits, was devoted entirely to the subject of expert investing networks. These communities of investors come in 3 different flavors: investing marketplaces: these are typically open communities where individuals [...]
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eBay of investment advisors, kaChing announced today that they’re providing servicing of IRA plans. That means that someone with an IRA of at least $10k and the desire to have kaChing investment managers take a crack at managing his portfolio, can now do it.
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kaChing continues to expand its asset advisory marketplace by broadening its offering a turn-key backoffice solution. It’s a smart move for the firm: Connecting retail investors with smaller/newer asset managers requires a broad service offering that helps some of these smaller managers with the resources required to run their businesses. Launched as kaChing Pro, the [...]
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We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap. As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced: new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.) made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies) provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual [...]
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kaChing announced yesterday (rather quietly — strange) that they have indeed — after months of discussion — launched their investment management arm. What that means is that investors can open up an Interactive Brokers account to mirror the activities of portfolio managers on kaChing. From board member Andy Radcliffe who posted on kaching’s blog yesterday: [...]
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Today’s post is a guest post from Valuecruncher, a stock picking service that analyzes individual stocks via discounted cash flow analysis. We also like the accompanying blog which highlights the site’s methodology and applies it to specific stocks. You can read more about the methodology here and how it works in practice. This guest post, [...]
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Word has been out on the Street that the race is on this summer to bring in real money management capabilities for a couple of the online community investing sites, like Covestor and kaching. I’ve written about both sites recently. This has been confirmed by an email sent this morning to users by Covestor CEO, [...]
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Measuring performance for all types of fund managers In thinking about expert investing communities like Covestor and Kaching, one of the main concerns users/investors should have is in how to judge performance of stock-jockeys. These communities, which allow pretty much anyone to set up a portfolio and for others to piggyback on top of them [...]
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