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Interesting reading, haven’t followed their recommendations.
This is a longer (16 pg) monthly, with multiple writers, which I enjoy; provides a broader education, from macro to international to sector-specific. Ironically, I’ve not invested extensively from their recommendations, but mostly because I’m becoming much more conservative about how many investments I have (I’m reading free books on OverDrive, a library app, of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett). This paper is a good education/intel brief, and they do maintain five portfolio’s, most with “buy at or under” prices; “Global Blue-Chips,” Global Growth & Income Stocks,” Inflation Hedge: Gold & Commodities,” Emerging Markets,” and “Aggressive Contrarian Plays.” The last two have only one recommendation in each. The first three have full portfolio’s of 5-8 stocks each. Bottom line: good writing with a broad spectrum, and a portfolio with 5 categories and many recommendations. Newsmax is too hyperbolic for me, but this “Financial Intelligence Report” (FIR) is more balanced and focused. So, I delete most Newsmax e-mails, but read all the FIR.
I have followed FIR for four years and mostly lost money while they claim their return has been 14.1 per cent. This figure has never changed which has to be bogus.
I subscribed to this newsletter for several years, ~2010-2014. While I enjoyed reading the commentary and financial expert analysis of the market, I hardly invested in FIR’s recommendations, and I’m glad I didn’t. I would have missed out on the 7 year stock run up we’ve experienced. FIR has been predicting a crash since 2012 and it hasn’t happened. A lot of their recommendations were gold mining stocks, which did nothing but lose money. I didn’t see any big wins in their recommendations, performance was significantly lower than the S&P 500 during this period. But they’re certainly intelligent, and all their arguments made sense, it’s just that most of them didn’t happen.