Value Investment Fund

Although the Value Investment Fund continues to grow, opportunities wane. It has been smooth sailing so far mostly due to an economic downturn in 2020 driven by COVID. Opportunities still existed into late 2020 of which this Fund took advantage. Now I have to add more potential opportunities or growth will amble along. There does not appear to be any storm activity in the near future. The markets indices are all at their all-time highs; there are no negative outlooks from any authority and quite honestly, economic forecasts look robust. Without an economic wide storm, very few potential buys will exist. To counter this, the Fund must expand its selections of pools and the corresponding high quality companies in order to take advantage of an individual company or two falling out of favor with investors.

The Club’s Value Investment Fund keeps moving forward. During July 2021, the Fund’s balance improved $6,308, a 4% gain over the prior month. During July, the Fund sold both its holdings in Equity Residential and UDR. Both stocks reached their preset expected sales price triggering the sale of the stock. 

The Club’s Value Investment Fund continued to grow during May 2021. The Fund grew 3.35% driven by increases across the board for all investments. Total actual gain during May was $5,097 as illustrated in the report below.

As stated multiple times throughout the lessons and tutorials, high quality stocks have less risk and thus, resist remarkably well when the market goes down and recover quickly upon market rebound. Furthermore, high quality stocks provide many opportunities to earn good rewards if properly purchased at less than intrinsic value and sold upon market price recovery.

The Value Investment Fund continues to just glide along with only a .2% increase over the prior week. Although the DOW dropped 571 points, a mere .16%, the respective investments within the Fund improved. This again demonstrates the importance of only working with high quality companies and buying the investments with good margins of safety below intrinsic value reward value investors.

The facilitator recognizes a flaw within the program that impedes long-term continuous growth rates of more than 30% per year. The Fund lacks adequate diversity. In effect, there are not enough potential investments to provide opportunities when the market as a whole is performing so well as it is right now. Thus, over the next six months, the Fund will develop two new pools of potential investments. The Fund has already added the fast food industry with eight potential investments and is currently researching the fifth pool. The end goal is to have more than 30 potential investments providing opportunities. 

The course set by the Value Investment Fund is achieving its initial goal. The Fund continues to grow, not as fast as it did during the first few months of the new fiscal year. This is because when the respective investments are purchased at low values, and driven by their inherent quality, recover quickly to intrinsic value and typically increase in market value faster than the market as a whole. As the market prices tend towards higher total market capitalization for the respective investment, the growth in the price per share begins to slow. This past week, the Value Investment Fund grew 1.004% reaching a new all time high of $153,477 off a $100,000 investment 28 weeks ago. The average weekly growth rate through the first 20 weeks approximated 1.77%. Thus, the growth rate is slowing down because the core recovery of the respective securities has been achieved. 

The Club’s Value Investment Fund continued to grow during April 2021. The Fund grew 7.6% driven by increases across the board for all investments. Total actual gain during April was $10,703 as illustrated in the report below.

As stated multiple times throughout the lessons and tutorials, high quality stocks have less risk and thus, resist remarkably well when the market goes down and recover quickly upon market rebound. Furthermore, high quality stocks provide many opportunities to earn good rewards if properly purchased at less than intrinsic value and sold upon market price recovery.