I had hoped to put together the snapshots and video I managed to take at the Better Investing National Congress in Atlanta and post it here quickly. But I just couldn’t get it done as quickly as I wanted to. We got to spend one day there, almost totally devoted to working with the young people Ann McNeill, her incredible daughter, Ionnie, and their dedicated volunteers brought to the event. And it was a joy!

My son David and I tag-teamed a couple of presentations to the youngsters and came away with so much more than we gave! It was such a thrill to see kids of all ages truly interested in learning basic stock investing—how to save and invest for their futures! The parents of those kids, many of whom were there with them and just as eager to learn, have obviously done something very right!

I’ve got some impressive video showing these kids who, having formed temporary investment clubs at the event, stood up in front of the group and made presentations on the stocks they decided (hypothetically) to purchase and their reasons for doing so.

Click here to see a group picture. That nearly all of them were African-American was especially interesting! Couldn’t help but wonder why the “new minorities” were so conspicuously absent!

I’m going to get that stuff together and post it here as soon as I do.

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The sixth, and final installment of a series contributed by Mark Robertson, founder and managing partner of Manifest Investing. Mark’s investment methods and some elements of his philosophy differ slightly from those I advocate; but they are minor differences, the significant points on which we whole-heartedly agree being far more important.

If it was fitting that we launched this series on the heels of Memorial Day – it’s perhaps even more appropriate that we bring it to a close as Independence Day approaches.

A lifetime of successful, strategic, long-term investing is a direct path to freedom. I’ve witnessed $20/month become a 7-figure path to an empowering nest egg. Yes, seven figures.

That $1,000,000+ balance was built on the back of a 13% annual rate of return over several decades. For the duration, the stock market advanced at approximately 11% … so the relative return (outperformance) was +2%. Any potential to incrementally enhance our long term results by a percent or two or more has MASSIVE consequences and impact on the ultimate “destination.”

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