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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Investment Coops
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.012820.29690@unocal.com>
- Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News)
- Organization: Unocal Corporation
- References: <8391@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:28:20 GMT
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- In article <8391@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> keithr@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Keith D Rule) writes:
- >
- >I'm interested in gathering information on Investment
- >Coops. I recently read an artical (though I can't
- >remember where) that claimed 85% of all investment
- >coops have a better return than the S&P 500, as
- >opposed to 25% of Mutual Funds.
- >
- >As I understand it, investment coops are a group
- >of folks who get together, pool their money, create
- >an investment strategy, and make investments with their
- >pooled money. This sounds attractive to me for several reasons:
- >
- >What I haven't found is a book on starting or finding
- >an investment coop. It's seems like there would be many
- >legal, tax, and logistical problems to overcome to make
- >an investment coop work.
-
- These are popular in CA with Asian ethnic groups. There is a long
- tradition both here and in the home country, giving confidence to
- the mechanics of the group. Also, there are family and
- community ties that aren't as strong generally in the US.
- Also, US banks don't like funding the shoe-string businesses that
- recent immigrants start, so they have to rely on other capital
- sources.
-
- In the US legal contracts replace or supplement community ties.
- I'd suggest a written contract for sharing of profits and losses,
- coming and going of members, and arbitration procedures in case
- disagreements come up and it is one person's word against another.
-