Tag: black investment

One Investor’s View of a Balanced Stock Investment Portfolio

Claude Newberger provided a perspective on his personal stock acquisitions for 2019. There are several areas he chose to invest in to create a hedge against risk and at the same time create tremendous growth with a balanced set of stable stocks.  STABLE  These companies have historically been stable investments which are the Wrigley (WWY) and Kraft (Hines Company (KHC). The Wrigley brand list includes Skittles, Altoids, Juicy Fruit, Lifesavers, Starburst, Orbit & Spearmint Chewing […]

Black Investment Club Leading By Example

Felicia Moon-Thomas believes that more Black people need to join the conversation about stocks, investment accounts, and real estate. In 2016, after a few of her friends responded to her Facebook post about investing, she gathered their names, met with a few financial experts for guidance, and hosted a formation meeting in her home. A year later, her idea became a reality, and the investment club, Vision Investing Partners, LLC. (VIP) was born. Today, nearly […]

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What Is an Investment Club?

An Investment club basically is a self-managed group of people who have taken the initiative to pool their resources in order to invest together. They are mostly organized as partnerships and after studying carefully different kinds of investments, the group then decides to make the investment usually in the form of buying or selling based on popular opinion. From time to time investment club members hold a meeting that may be educational and each of […]

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Blacks Efforts To Buy The Block Back

Buy the block is a crowdfunding intermediary platform connecting real estate developers seeking to crowdfund any type of property. The buy the block back movement is one of the only black-owned platforms in the country dedicated to making investments in real estate, as a group, more accessible. With the focus on the black communities around the nation, Buy the Block is currently on track to raise millions of dollars in funding for development projects in […]

Successful African American Investment Clubs

The Grassroots Investment Group LLC (GRIG): A Case Study GRIG is a typical example of a successful African American investment club. Founded in 1997, as a general partnership, it evolved into Limited Liability Corporation by the end of 2002. This enabled it to pay dividends to members every quarter. According to its founder, Philippe Tatem, GRIG was born when a group of black venture capitalists came together to pull their resources. It is interesting to […]