Small Investor Newsletter Launches Highly Robust 2nd Service
February 08, 2005 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Arlington, TX - Subscribers to the Investing With Mom Advisory Newsletter averaged 13.6%, excluding dividends, over the first 3 months, since the initial launch after the markets closed on Oct. 1st, 2004. While this compared quite favorably to the NASDAQ's return of 11.4% over the same period and was exactly double the S&P 500's return of 6.8%, Andy Prior, founder and publisher of Investing With Mom, has decided that that is just not quite good enough and will be launching a brand new high-end service next week.After reading John Mauldin's book 'Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market', Mr. Prior launched a new website aimed directly at helping small investors achieve hedge fund like returns. "There is a definite void," says Mr. Prior, "in the investment newsletter world for a service aimed directly at small investors." Mr. Prior defines small investors as those who would like to begin investing, but have less than the $5,000 minimum necessary to purchase many funds.
"We already have an entry level service for small investors, now we're pulling back the curtains of the institutional and hedge fund worlds." Mr. Prior believes that small investors should have access to, "the kind of information that generates the sustained 30% returns that the big money demands."
The Investing With Mom Q-Timer Newsletter will be a highly robust service that will be able to handle the demands of any style of trading, in any type of market, and under any type of market conditions. The goal will be to be able to help small investors with the leap into any other market than the one they're most comfortable with. "In other words, we'll hold their hand while they are getting started in commodities, forex, options, index funds, emerging markets, whatever it is they want to move into."
Mr. Prior knows that small investors don't have large amounts of capital when getting started in investing and so he's designed the Q-Timer Newsletter to minimize the losses that will naturally be incurred when small investors begin trading a new type of account. "The Q-Timer service will be the perfect compliment to our Advisory Newsletter," Mr. Prior said, "but it is designed to be a stand alone service to be used by anyone."
Most small investors get eaten alive by the fees that even low-cost online brokerages like E*Trade charge. Mr. Prior has found ways that small investors can get started with less than $100 and make unlimited trades for an entire year, for less than the cost of 10 trades at a "low-cost" brokerage, like E*Trade. "I believe that small investors should have the same opportunities as everyone else."
In fact, that's how Mr. Prior got his mom started with her first investment portfolio. Since getting started just 15 months ago, Mr. Prior has generated a cumulative 42.5% return for his mom's portfolio, or over 33.9% annually.
The Advisory Newsletter's Portfolio reflects his mom's portfolio exactly and is definitely a well-rounded stock portfolio, as 4 different countries besides the US are represented: Canada, China, Brazil and South Africa are all represented.
With a bias towards commodities, currencies and high yields, Mr. Prior believes that the Advisory portfolio should do even better in 2005, but he also understands that he won't always be able to repeat the 54% annualized return achieved in the 4th quarter of 2004. "I'll settle for beating the general market's return, by generating a positive absolute return on an annual basis, year in and year out," said Mr. Prior. "Because that would beat the vast majority of fund managers out there, and make our portfolio very successful."
Looking forward into 2005, Mr. Prior believes that the markets may in fact end 2005 positive, "but they will be fortunate to outperform the Dow's 2004 performance of just 3.6%, plus dividends."
For more information regarding all of our services for small investors, go to our website: http://www.investingwithmom.com/
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