Tag: investment

Black Investment Club Leading By Example

Felicia Moon-Thomas believes that more Black people need to join the conversation about stocks, investment accounts, and real estate. In 2016, after a few of her friends responded to her Facebook post about investing, she gathered their names, met with a few financial experts for guidance, and hosted a formation meeting in her home. A year later, her idea became a reality, and the investment club, Vision Investing Partners, LLC. (VIP) was born. Today, nearly […]

Leverage Real Estate Investing To Increase Your Income and Support A Unique Work-life Integrated Lifestyle

I love real estate investing because it differs from stocks and bonds significantly. As an investor, you have much more control over your investment. You don’t know what a company will do, and unless you are on the board of directors or the CEO. You have no say in the running. That is where real estate investing has its work-life balance advantages. You have a lot more control. Even with the COVID-19 crisis, some landlords […]

Is Investing Ruining Your Work-Life Balance?

Beware when starting to invest, don’t jump into the stock trading world wholeheartedly without first considering your work-life balance. Some get the investing bug and find themselves constantly looking at their portfolio, making sure that they do not miss the trade, either on the way up or down. This has been found to interfere with their work-life balance. It is a behavior that has almost become akin to compulsive gambling, where the hormone spikes and […]

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What Is an Investment Club?

An Investment club basically is a self-managed group of people who have taken the initiative to pool their resources in order to invest together. They are mostly organized as partnerships and after studying carefully different kinds of investments, the group then decides to make the investment usually in the form of buying or selling based on popular opinion. From time to time investment club members hold a meeting that may be educational and each of […]

Successful African American Investment Clubs

The Grassroots Investment Group LLC (GRIG): A Case Study GRIG is a typical example of a successful African American investment club. Founded in 1997, as a general partnership, it evolved into Limited Liability Corporation by the end of 2002. This enabled it to pay dividends to members every quarter. According to its founder, Philippe Tatem, GRIG was born when a group of black venture capitalists came together to pull their resources. It is interesting to […]