Archive for March, 2005

Lobbying Mutual Fund Investment Managers

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Now here is an interesting idea: VDARE.com: 03/30/05 - “Follow the Money” to Oppose Home Depot!

Sandra Miller advocates contacting the investment managers of mutual finds you might own and asking them to contact management of the companies they are invested in. Her interest is preventing public companies from hiring illegial aliens (undocumented workers); however, […]

Marquee Board

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Today on CNBC Squawk Box they finally said it, putting the highest respected persons on the board of directors of large public corporations may be counterproductive. Most of these people (Marquee names like Colon Powell or Warren Buffett) are much too busy to oversee the management of an additional business enterprise. They probably view […]

How to Start a Startup

Monday, March 14th, 2005

The focus of this web site is suposed to be your rights as a [fractional] owner of large public corporations. However, I found this article How to Start a Startup quite a fascinating read.

This particularly struck home for me:

An idea for a startup, however, is only a beginning. A lot of would-be startup […]

Mutual funds

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

My first question: Why do mutual finds advertise for new invetors all of the time? Mutual in this context means owned by the customers. The stockholders in the fund own the fund.

Everything the fund spends comes out of the owners return. So if the mutual fund runs a large […]

Welcome

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Welcome to Stockholders.com.

This is a new kind of investor web site.

Most investor sites are concerned with the foot vote. By that I mean, most sites are concerned solely with investment advice, what securities to buy or sell. Such sites ignore all other rights of a stockholder.

Now, I have many problems with such […]