{"id":1965701,"date":"2014-04-04T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T10:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=1965701"},"modified":"2014-09-09T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T07:01:02","slug":"reel-life-vs-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2014\/04\/04\/reel-life-vs-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Reel Life vs. Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Jubak, beginning in 1997 and continuing for twelve years, wrote one of the first and ultimately the best-read stock picking column on the Internet, “Jubak’s Journal,” for Microsoft’s MSN Money. His initial boss, a hotshot software guy, said: “If you’re so good as a stock picker why don\u2019t you do what no one else does and issue clear buys and sells and then track the results.” That resulted in what we believe was the first online, daily-priced stock portfolio on the Internet, Jubak’s Picks.\"Jim<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2010, Jubak apparently decided that investment management looked awfully easy and so launched his own fund.<\/p>\n

Which stunk. Over the three years of its existence, it\u2019s trailed 99% of its peers. And so the Board of Trustees of the Trust has approved a Plan of Liquidation which authorizes the termination, liquidation and dissolution of the Jubak Global Equity Fund (JUBAX).<\/div>\n

Ben Carlson over @awealthofcs notes:<\/p>\n

There is a constant barrage of people they throw at you in the financial media, each one a seeming expert in their field. The majority of these people spend their time making endless predictions about stocks, the economy, interest rates, company earnings, etc.<\/p>\n

Because these are all intelligent-sounding people, it\u2019s very easy to get sucked into believing every single forecast they put out there. Some will be right some of the time. Most are wrong most of the time.<\/p><\/div>\n

What’s surprising is not that Jubak setup his own mutual fund, but the fact that it still has $16 million in assets. Go figure…<\/p>\n

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