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.
Jim, hahaha, yes those pet pillows are a close second…right behind water/food as far as my dog’s needs go 🙂
According to a show on cnbc, it was supposedly the #1 selling infomercial product last year…so I made my own using a reusable grocery bag and a milk jug as the water source…it actually did produce pretty good tomatoes, but def not as big/juicy as the ones I grew the reg way.
The best infomercial product of all time though has to be Dan Akroyd’s bass-o-matic seen here:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/19046/saturday-night-live-bassomatic
Congratulations Jim. I’ve been following you for about 5 years and you’ve helped my investing and taught me a ton. Best of luck in your new ventures. I will continue to follow you wherever you go and gladly pay the $299. -Brian
Happy 1 year!
Dear Jim,
Congratulations! I have benefited enormously from reading your commentary over the years. I sold C, at close to the high, on a chance comment you made about financial shenanigans at the big banks. As it was a large part of my portfolio, I owe much of my net worth to you. Hope we can meet for dinner. Looking forward to my subscription and being a well informed citizen of the world. Sam
Jim-
I add my congrats and best wishes and thanks for all you’ve done on yer 1-year solo anniversary. I suspect you’ve made an awful lot of people and awful lot of money over the years- my portfolio certainly thanks you as well.
Re: ” Oh…Pigs whiskers!” Whooosh… that bad eh? Mr. Jubak- If I didn’t know you better, I’d be appalled. Such phraseology, from a distinguished gentleman such as yerself. Maybe it means I should be digging my bomb-shelter? Buying more gold n bullets? [Hey! golden bullets, what a niche market!] Sell everything I own and put the proceeds into seeds and storage food?
cheers Jim- and fellow fans.
That’s great Jim! Here’s to you getting, “too big to fail”. Just don’t forget about us little people.
Jim,
best of luck and congratulations. And careful what you wish for…
Congratulations, and Happy Birthday! You are an outstanding teacher and guide. Your paid services will be well worth the price.
Also, I’ve wished for a long time for an “asset management” opportunity to invest with you. Great news!
Jim,
why buy the cow when your getting the milk for free?
well, I like the damn milk. So f%#k it, I’m subscribing!
Congrats on your new business ventures and thanks for all the valuable insights
This is great news Jim! Count me in for your newsletter. Looking forward to it.
VR
Congrats, Jim. Honestly, I’m surprised this announcement hasn’t come earlier. From reading between the lines, it seems like, despite being the most widely read investment blogger, your former employer was unwilling to compensate you reasonably for exclusivity. And when you become good at helping other people make money, I certainly think you’re entitled to earn some of your own. As we are all aware, the last couple of years have been pretty rough for the Picks, but we have to be in it for the long haul. As a new investor earlier this decade, I learned a lot from reading your columns twice a week. I got tips for China and commodities and got in before the crowds did (too bad I didn’t have more to invest back then). Yours will be the first newsletter I subscribe to. I’ll look forward to it.
Happy Birthday, JubaksPicks! I have long thought a mutual fund run by Jim Jubak would be a great idea. I have enjoyed your posts for a long time. Does your goody bag include a way to get my wife to stop complaining about all the time I spend on the net, hanging on every word from your keyboard?
Jim,
Happy birthday and many more to come.
I truly appreciate everything you’ve written. I would like to donate some earnings I’ve made from your recommendations to a charity of your choice each year. If it is okay with you, please provide name of charity.
Thanks again,
Is the old jubaks picks still going to be around ?
I had to give away my upside down tomato planter. I got way too dizzy standing upside down trying to see the top of the tomato vine!
Sounds like we will have to wait for Jim. His note above says:
“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.”
I think “amateur” must be a plant, just to get the rumor mill going…
Next thing you know, somebodys going to post the tail numbers of Jims new jet ….. then the IPO comes…. (Sure hope we have first dibs on shares…)
amateur,
That’s HUGE news! Thanks for sharing!
Jim,
To paraphrase Ricky Ricardo, “Hey Jimmy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!” Seriously, tell us more about the Jubak Global Equity Fund? I know you just did the filing in April, but you can at least throw us a bone about it?
“SPOILER ALERT:
search “Jubak Asset Management” in google
Surprise:
http://www.secinfo.com/d12TC3.rKAm.htm”
Does this mean you’re going to exchange your webcam for CNBC’s bright lights? I have a feeling they’re going to be calling, and you’re going to be a busy man. Enjoy the exclusive dinner parties!
“have you ever tried the upsidedown tomato planter”
Yes, I have three of them on my porch right now… surprisingly not doing that well…
Next year, back in the ground….
Thanks for 13 years free Jim!
For those of us who have followed you for 13 years (Free of charge) I calculate that this sudden increase in cost (It’s the economy, or so I hear) works out to 0.031 cents per day for those 13 years. I would say that’s a pretty good deal!
Thanks for all you do, looking forward to having dinner with you!
-DJB
p.s. May I suggestT-Shirts ?
Something like:
“I invested $100,000 in Jubaks Picks in 1997 and all I got was a 282% return.
And this T-Shirt!
;o)
One year? Heck I have followed you since your first year on “that other site” and have been grateful for (nearly) every post!
My email address was eagerly sent your way already.
Thank you for all your thoughts over ALL the years you have been picking!
Steve
and yes I want a bobble head too.
djpoints–and have you ever tried the upsidedown tomato planter? Actually my favorite ad right now is for PillowPets.
SPOILER ALERT:
search “Jubak Asset Management” in google
Surprise:
http://www.secinfo.com/d12TC3.rKAm.htm
Hi Jim – Happy Anniversary and wishing you the best in your new adventures !
How much is the bobblehead?
Happy Happy Birthday Jubakpicks…my favorite website to hang out during my “golden” years!
Happy anniversary Jim!
And now back to our regular programming…
Happy anniversary Jim!
You’re a true capitalist!
Thank you! and Keep up the good work.
I TOO APPRECIATE ALL YOUR WORK PRESENTED WITH YOUR LEVEL HEADED AND THOUGHFULL INSITES. AND EVEN MIXED WITH A LITTLE DRY HUMOR, RIC DE COSTA RICA Y ARGENTINA
sure hope Jim’s picks are better than this ‘if you call now’ post. anyone else feel like they just read a transcript for the topsy turvy tomato planter ad…or perhaps the slap chop.
j/k Jim, keep up the good work.
Simply GREAT JIM!!!
Happy Anniversary…. and THANK YOU!