It’s almost the first anniversary of JubakPicks.com.
Happy birthday to me.
Don’t know what to get me for a present? No worries. I’ve got a suggestion.
How about your email address? So that I can send you the news about a bushel of new stuff that I’ve got coming out in the next few weeks.
Stuff like a new subscription newsletter. (With a 50% discount to JubakPicks.com readers—if you send me your email so I can put you on the discount list.) That’s coming in July. Like a drawing for one of a number of dinners held around the country with me—I’ll pick up the check—so you and just two other readers can talk to me face to face. Like, maybe, the long-demanded Jim Jubak bobble-head.
All this is by way of celebrating the anniversary of JubakPicks.com. And thanking you for reading. I couldn’t have done it without you. From a standing start JubakPicks.com now makes up a community almost 70,000 strong.
Over the last few months I’ve been hard at work on a number of new projects. Some I can’t tell you about quite yet. I’ll be taking the wraps off those in July.
But some I can announce right now.
Like a new subscription newsletter and web site being published by my new company Jubak Asset Management (known around our world headquarters as JAM).
And in thanks for a year of loyalty I’d like to give the readers of JubakPicks.com a chance to subscribe for half price. Yep, for just $150 a year—a 50% discount from the retail price of $299—you can get my new JAM Letter (online, of course.)
Send me no money now. Just your email address so I can put you on the JubakPicks.com discount list.
JubakPicks.com isn’t going away. And it’s going to stay absolutely free. I’ll try to keep delivering posts and picks just as I have for more than 13 years since I started Jubak’s Journal on MSN Money. And I’ll keep running the three portfolios that I manage on that site.
But now I want to do more. I want to give you more reporting on the sometimes obscure corners of the new global market. I want to dig up trends that move not just U.S. stocks but the stocks of China and Brazil and the rest of the developing world. I want to include more insight into the fastest growing economies, the ones that I think will give you the biggest profits over the next decades. And I want to warn you about the dangers of this new investing world too.
To do that I’ve got to charge something. Research takes time and costs money. So my new JAM Letter will charge a subscription.
But look what you get for your bucks.
- First shot at my commentary on the day’s most important market events—before it goes up anywhere else
- My take on stock market conditions in the U.S. and global stock markets in the short-, medium-, and long-runs—updated whenever market conditions change.
- New daily breaking videos, shot from my never-messy desk at Jubak Asset Management, with up-to-the-minute commentary on what the news means
- More of my in-depth reports on hot (and cold) sectors, industries, and global markets
- A new daily summary of events and trends—so that you don’t miss a single one of the my posts during the day– sent via email after the markets close
- A new  weekly “Saturday Evening Quarterback” email to get you ready for the week ahead
All that for $299 a year—and to you just for $150 for the first year in thanks for being a JubakPicks.Com reader.
Don’t send any money now. The JAM Letter won’t start publication until July.
But we do need you to reserve a subscription for yourself now. To do that all you need to do is send us your email address. No money. No credit card. Nothing. By sending us your email you’re making sure that we know that you’re a JubakPicks.Com reader and entitled to that 50% discount.
And you’re letting us know how to tell you about other neat stuff we’ve got in the pipeline at Jubak Asset Management.
When the JAM Letter launches, we’ll send you an email telling you it’s time to subscribe and how to get your discount and where to send your cash.
So come on. I think you’ll find my new JAM Letter fun, educational, and profitable. Your email address to me can be the gift that keeps on giving: You’ll be the first on your block to know about everything we’re got cooking. Send us your email today and get on the list.
And thanks for reading for the last year. I do truly appreciate it.
RM,
It seems to be a somewhat higher than the ‘category average’, if one can judge from http://www.dailymarkets.com/stocks/2010/02/02/mutual-funds-top-global-equity-funds/ .
On the other hand, it may seem perfectly reasonable to you if you take into account that a brand new fund will have no economies of scale, or if you expect this fund’s performance to be significantly and consistently better than that of the funds discussed there.
Good luck.
C.
Jubak Global Equity Fund
Total Expense = 1.75%
Is this comparable to other similar funds?
Good morning,
I would wait, you guys – unless you wantto send him the money in the spirit of a donation – for a very simple reason:
If and when Mr. Jubak launches his Global Equity Fund ( http://www.secinfo.com/d12TC3.rKAm.htm ), it will become very easy to compare his results with competing investment vehicles under real-world conditions, since it will be in the real world. Why buy a we-hope-we-believe when one can wait to see the test results?
T
C
Yeah I’d say it’s time for Jim to take the plunge and start charging for his great advice. Or at least charging for those who want some extra advice. It’s commendable that he will continue his normal Picks columns. Sign me up for the newsletter, I’ll go for at least the first year. After that hopefully some of these picks will come through in grand fashion — if we can avoid another global financial meltdown that is.
I would love to have a mutual fund setup or a close ended fund, because I dont have enough time to buy and sell stocks as I wish. Then you can just charge us through the commissions.
Jim,
The pic has TOO many candles!
Count me in! You have been most helpful. Thanks!
Jim – I’ve been reading your Jubak’s Journal (on MSN) since the late 1990’s and now your Jubak Picks blog. I remember the tech picks you made and discussed in the Dot Com era (It was no good fighting the tape back then). I remember the prescient oil and energy picks you made circa 2003 and 2004. I learned a lot about the macro economics of fertilizer and other commodity plays from the many posts you made in the past few years. It HAS been a long running show, and I’m glad I tuned into (almost) every episode.
Through it all, the thing that set you apart was your clear, logical, and detailed explanation of the whys and why-nots behind your picks. If I could not understand the reasoning behind a pick, I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable taking any action. Yours was the only free column/blog that consistently passed this test.
Of course, I’ve been amazed – and tremendously thankful – that all of this was provided free for so long. You’ve thoroughly established your expertise, and deserve to make a living at this. I wish you all the best in your new initiatives, and I’ll keep tuning in. Hopefully at some point I can even make it to one of the Money Shows and meet you in person.
Happy Birthday Jubak Picks and Best Wishes,
creativekev
Jim,
Thanks for your service so long. As commonly expressed here, you are the best there is out there.
Having read through your plans to start a JAM, I still am not sure what is it that I will be getting with the subscription service? Would your picks still be listed on this blog? If so, what would I get if I joined the subscription?
DJB,
I agree 100% on your last post. It is clearly food for thought. I am on my mid 40’s. After having paid in full the student loans and the mortgage I do not have that much left to invest but, as many here I think and plan a lot for my retirement and I am saving for it. Like you I follow Jim from the beginning. In the past, I learned (without investing a dime) and I continue to learn a lot from him. I sent already my JAM subscription because IMO it is worth just as educational tool not only as investment one. Following Jim’s advice (in a video he recorded for Money-show) I am planning to dollar cost averaging the, hopefully, accumulation of ‘wealth’ coming from his great insights in the global markets. I am so excited to be able, this time, to walk with Jim the epochal transformation and shift of the financial global markets. I do not believe I will be able to thank Jim enough for the shared privilege that he is giving us. My ONLY worry is that, sooner or later, someone will criticize him to share ‘paid subscribers content’ to the always free (as he stated) Jubak Picks website. I will not mind at all but IMO that is something Jim needs to address and I am raising this issue in advance in order to avoid Jim some unpleasant ‘surprise’ critic. As I stated, having benefited a lot from Jim the last thing I wish is that he will decide to go ONLY subscription. The WORLD will miss him A LOT!