This one came to me in an actual envelope, believe it or not … and it was on paper!

Wow, these guys have some crazy ideas!

Actually, I hear anecdotally that the direct mail efforts by a lot of the newsletters are still quite active — it’s a lot more expensive for them, but they know that the people who have most of the money and are most attuned to the offers they can make are baby boomers and older, folks who have not yet given up entirely on the post office. So it must work out pretty well for them.

This one is for Asian Growth Stocks, which I’ve not heard of before, from editor Bryan Tycango. He’s got three recommendations for us, so I’d better get started …

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