AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
No Fools Picking Stocks, But Can Motleys Sell?(THE SMART INVESTOR)(IBD INVESTOR PROFILE)
Byline: KEN HOOVER
The brothers Tom and David Gardner are no fools. But they are Fools. They use the capital F to separate themselves from what they dismissively call the Wise Men of Wall Street.
As the Motley Fools, they've built a good business preaching Foolishness to the investing public. More than 2 million people visit their fool.com Web site each month. (But be careful. It's April Fools' Day.) They write best-selling books and a newspaper column, host a radio show and are launching an investment newsletter.
By Foolishness, they mean you can ignore the conventional wisdom and beat the pants off mutual fund managers, hotshot analysts and the S&P 500. All you need is education and patience.
To prove the point, they invested $50,000 in what they now call the Rule Breaker Portfolio. As of March 25, it was worth $350,787. That's a 375% return since it was started Aug. 4, 1994, and an annualized return of 27.9%, more than double the S&P 500.
They've made some great picks: AOL, Iomega, Starbucks and Amazon.com, to name a few.
David, 35, whose investment style is the more aggressive, looks for companies he knows as a consumer.
- The Motley Fool Buys eBay for 'Rule Breaker' Portfolio.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 2, 1999 700+ words
...March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Motley Fool's "Rule Breaker" Portfolio, managed by company co-founder David Gardner...http://www.fool.com/rulebreaker. The "Rule Breaker" Portfolio was started on August 4, 1994, with $50,000...
- American Express to Sponsor The Motley Fool's Rule Breaker Online Seminar.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 7, 2000 700+ words
...Participants will learn the investment strategies that have made The Motley Fool's own Rule Breaker Portfolio so successful. Since 1994, the Rule Breaker Portfolio has an annualized return of 67.48 percent, compared to the S&P 500's return...
- The Motley Fool Selects New Rule Breaker.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 22, 2000 700+ words
...Nasdaq: HGSI) to its Rule Breaker Portfolio. Headquartered in Rockville...and Jeff Fischer of the Rule Breaker Portfolio. "We decided on Human...htm The Motley Fool's Rule Breaker Portfolio consists of companies with...
- Kennedy good deeds ignored by media; Michael Kennedy no rule-breaker; Let all...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald January 6, 1998 700+ words
...Kennedys, should be remembered for the good he accomplished. Raymond D. Dunn, Jr., East Haven, Conn. Michael Kennedy no rule-breaker I am writing in regard to the Jan. 2 article (" 'Wild' Kennedys flirt with danger") in which Peter Collier states that...
- Gummo's Whammo: Harmony Korine's directorial debut is the fall film most likely...
- Magazine article from: Interview Herzog, Werner November 1, 1997 700+ words
...most likely to disturb and disgust the most people. Here Korine talks to one of his newest fans, fellow moviemaker and rule-breaker Werner Herzog If Harmony Korine's screenplay for 1995's Kids announced the arrival of a shockingly precocious observer...
- Rule breaker.
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Bedard, Paul Kaplan, David E. Whitelaw, Kevin Newman, Richard J. March 27, 2000 700+ words
World Bank staffers, crying "nepotism" and "corruption," are revolting against the appointment of new chief economist Nicholas Stern. The reason: He's the brother of Richard Stern, the human-resources vice president at the bank that bans nepotism. "Management has clearly shown with this action that
- Rule breaker.(Turkey is concerned with use of US planes from Turkish air bases...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report March 29, 1999 700+ words
Turkey is showing signs of unease with the almost daily American airstrikes on Iraq. The United States depends on the Turkish air base at Incirlik to launch its aerial policing of northern Iraq and, increasingly, its bombing of military targets there. But Turkish Defense Minister Hikmet Sami Turk
- Rule breaker: artist James Siena has his own ingeniously complicated, utterly...
- Magazine article from: W Belcove, Julie L. December 1, 2005 700+ words
James Siena collects antique manual typewriters became he's fascinated by clever innovations like the shift and backspace keys. He counts the number of breaths he takes on his morning runs over the Brooklyn Bridge and near his country house in the Berkshires, tracking his step-to-breath ratio up
