Welcome to Investors News Digest.com

For background information, you should know that this website first appeared as Geoshares.com. It was started by Robert Brumell back in 2002 as a hobby. Robert is that bald-headed character shown in upper left corner.

As a hobby it carried no advertising and was not affiliated with any company. It was completely independent and has remained that way to this day.

For several years it issued a newsletter on a bi-weekly basis (every two weeks) with emphasis on junior mining stocks. However, by late 1987, it appeared markets were headed for the dumpster. That fall we wrote various articles about the fallacy of de-coupling (the idea that China and India would carry the ball regardless of what happened in America.)

On January 1st of 2008, we issued a special issue warning readers of the pitfalls ahead. That short newsletter can be read here. At the same time we suspended taking new subscriptions for the newsletter. If events unfolded as we predicted, we could see little sense in publishing a newsletter for some time into the future. Instead, we continued publishing until all subscriptions had expired by late summer of that year and subsequently ceased publication. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect was that I doubt many heeded our warnings. Readers subscribed to hear about junior mining companies. I doubt many cared much about geopolitical or larger economic and market issues. They should have. It's those issues that sank junior markets. They will continue doing so well into the future.

A visit to a cardiologist.

In early March, I made the annual pilgrimage to my Cariologist. During our discussion, he happened to ask how I'd weathered the bad markets. I told him well as I had been out of the market for quite some time. He then went on to say he had lost over half his savings. Although not saying who, he mentioned his portfolio had been handled by someone who was supposed to be excellent. The results were disastrous. He also mentioned that a majority of his patients, (likely older people due to the nature of his work,) also reported suffering big losses. This resulted in stress and anxiety particularly amongst those retired or near retirement. In hindsight, I assume his cardiology practice was seeing the result of these anxieties by an increased patient load.

This visit got me thinking. My cardiologist is a hard working man. He has a job. He's at the hospital by 6:30 am every weekday morning over-seeing various cardiology tests. By late morning he's in his office and by mid-afternoon he's on various hospital floors. Then he returns to his office where he often works into the early evening. I know because several times I've received phone calls at home from him after 7.00 pm.

The point is that he, like most other people with a job, doesn't have time to be watching hourly market fluctuations. Truth is I doubt if he's very interested in them. But like so many busy working people, he needs to invest for his retirement. So how does he do it? There's no simple answer.

Some Solutions

A partial answer is to create a place where busy investors, people with a career, can get a fast glimpse of what's going on with their investments. That's what the website Investors News Digest will be about. It's a work in progress as more categories and feeds are developed but we have a start and it's a good one.

Another partial solution is to offer a diversity of views and opinions about financial markets and the various ways to participate in them. Opinions can come from various sources including various media and experienced people within a specified industry. Opinions can be diverse and contradictory. Even the best people often have a bias for a company or industry. But put that diversity into one pace - a publication - and investors can form their own opinion. That will be our next job and it will be published as a weekly newsletter.

As for a the forum, we don't think the world needs another one. Between existing forums plus Twitter, Facebook and all the other social media, that segment is bloated with mostly vacuous data. What's needed is concise, relevant information from a host of informed people. Leave the blather to others. Consequently, we will be using our forum software as a content management system for past newsletters plus certain reference works best not placed in a public domain.

Your Opinions

What we are creating is for you, the busy retail investor. If you have any suggestions, we would appreciate hearing them. We can be reached by email at editor@InvestorsNewsDigest.com.

Regards to all,

Robert Brumell