Wednesday 29 February 2012

Investment Clubs And Its Basic Principles

By Ashley Houston


Individuals who not only want to pool their funds together to make a joint investment but would also like to gain knowledge on the various types of viable investment opportunities that are available in the market created the investment club. Each member of the club contributes periodically an agreed amount of money to purchase growth stocks by means of a dollar cost averaging approach.

Most of the time, the capital gains as well as the dividends are reinvested to gain more interest. Voted upon by the club members are the security purchases. Not to mention that this is a way of decreasing personal risk of club members as well. Non-investors are also allowed to participate in larger investments of the club provided of course that the non-member investors receive a much lower share of commissions in some of the investment clubs.

Also, investment clubs have another role and that is to assist their club members in becoming more knowledgeable in all aspects of investments. A non-profit organization that provides guidance as well as imparting investment knowledge as part of its membership and is also a well-known trade group for investment clubs is the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC).

A good choice of investment clubs are those that have been around for many decades already and have a track record of having a continuous increasing interest in the stock market. Small investors are given the opportunity to increase their buying power, share their collective knowledge and socialize while earning from their investment when they join investment clubs. Investors are not expected to invest a great deal of money but still will be able to receive a greater amount of interest that is usually possible if you have similarly invested a big lump money and this is another good benefit that's derived from investment clubs.

A typical investment club usually meets once a month and members are given individual responsibility of researching investments and then sharing their ideas with the other members of the club. Likewise, these meeting also served as an occasion for members to contribute to their monetary fund, which is intended for purchasing stocks, mutual funds as well as other types of feasible investments.

The opportunity to learn is one of the main goals and objectives of an investment club. They believe that a well-researched investment plan has a much greater chance of success which is why most investment clubs spend a great deal of time and effort in research. This is also the reason why risk is minimized when joining an investment club.

It's really not that difficult to start an investment club and it does not require any special knowledge. In fact, a group of friends or even co-workers can decide to set up an investment club. This is usually a good place to start as you will know the people you dealing with.




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