Tag Archives: expert communities

kaChing goes kaching with new money management fxn

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:
We now [...]

Interested in Distressed Debt Investing club? Let ‘em know

For investors willing to put in the time to get accepted, there are a couple of great resources for serious investors to share their work in a closed community of experts.  I reviewed SumZero here and of course, there is the Value Investors Club.
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that there is an expert community [...]

The profitable other side of financial social media

Because it has broader appeal, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the demand side of financial social media.  Investors can use tools like following their favorite investors portfolio moves on Covestor or crowdsource ideas on Piqqem or use AlphaClone to create the same portfolio Warren Buffett has.
There are other great tools, [...]

Expert communities addressing the need for better fund performance metrics

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 by [...]

Expert investment community SumZero coming soon to a hedge fund near you

I’m a big believer in expert investing communities and have written before about how these types of communities benefit investors.  The sites bring a certain liquidity of ideas into the marketplace benefiting professionals and individuals alike with their thoroughness and visibility.
To that end, I recently got a chance to shmooze with Divya Narenda, founder of [...]

WSJ: Navigating online personal finance sites

I’m not particularly a fan of these Mainstream Media (MSM) overviews of Internet tools.  I find, more often than not, that they’re typically short on analysis and don’t help investors really navigate what’s really out there, why these tools are important, and how investors are successfully using them.
This short video piece (2:45) ran late last [...]

How will investors behave with no newspapers?

Slow death of the newspaper and how investment decisions are affected
While news and the proliferation of information is booming, clearly the newspaper industry is on its way out.  Its current revenue model just can’t support a quality newsroom in the face of widely available free information on the Internet.
Numerous industry analysts continue to discuss the [...]

As Broadridge and 2nd generation social investor networks roll out, openness a key issue

Open social networks
Don’t get me wrong: I believe in openness.  I believe that social networks should be set free to self-regulate.  I believe that in a perfect world, social libertarianism makes sense.  I believe that good, quality, trustworthy content would bubble up and all that nasty, nefarious, spammy stuff would be drowned out.
But life’s not [...]