Within a month or so, this site and its contents will be removed.

And thus, Value Stock Guide is born!

Value Stock Guide is the new website (with a spankin’ new domain name) where I will now be writing about value investing. As of now, VSG is still being developed and tweaked and you will see brand new articles popping up in a day or so.

VSG now features a great new look, I really love it, which should make reading and browsing a more pleasurable experience. The site will also have free and paid sections and I plan to cover more recommendations, research and personal portfolio details over there.

Hop over there and subscribe to the feed.

Last, but not the least, as a special Thank You to my loyal readers – and I mean YOU – if you subscribe to the feed at Value Stock Guide before April 30th, send me an email through the contact form and I will set you up with a complimentary membership account when the paid section goes live.  This means, you will have access to all free and paid content on the new site as long as you choose to continue with your membership.

See you at VSG!

Arohan

Starting November 1st, Arohan’s Investing Life will become a members only site. Following is a list of the changes that you will see.

• All future and past blog entries will be protected and will only be accessible to registered  members
• The free feed will be removed. As a member, you can subscribe to members only feed
• The free newsletter subscribers will continue to  receive the monthly newsletter for free but will no longer receive any new articles or posts
• The 7-day free trial offer from AIL Premium will no longer be offered

Read about all the benefits that you get with AIL Premium membership. You can also sign up here before Oct 31st 2009 and receive the 7 day free trial.

To make it easy for my regular readers, I am offering a discounted membership (for 6 months) at 90% off.

Sign up today and you will pay less than 17 cents a day for the next 6 months!

If you are still not sure and wish to stay in touch with my writings, you can opt for a complimentary email subscription to my monthly newsletter below

You can also stay in touch with me by following me on twitter and becoming a fan of the Facebook Fan page. Links are to the right.

It has been an honor that you have chosen to read my writings and find value in it and I hope that we stay connected either through the membership or through social networks!

Thank You!

I have taken this decision after a lot of deliberation. The fact is that it is unfair for my Premium members if some of my content is available for everyone to read. I have been trying to separate the content between free content and premium content but it is too much work and hassle and the time can be better used to add more value to the members. Besides, this will allow me to continue to write about value investing, my enduring passion, to a committed audience, without having to worry about such distractions as SEO, Page Ranks, Advertisements, article popularity, daily visitors/pageviews, etc.

You can still read my free writings at Seeking Alpha where I will be contributing occasional original articles. To follow me on Seeking Alpha, just go to my author page and click on Follow. However, I will not be discussing my specific investment ideas and stock picks on Seeking Alpha.

Of course, if you want to read my specific investment ideas, analysis, participate in forums, get a monthly newsletter or  ask me questions about stocks, markets or anything investment related, you can become a member.

To become a member, just go to the Membership Page and sign up.

It is quite easy and you get a  7 day free trial so there is little risk!

If you have not signed up for the AIL Premium service, What are you waiting for? You can sign up now by clicking the Join AIL Premium button at the top.

Sign up Now!

Thank You all and Happy Investing!

Trust me, this is THE place to be for value investors of all pursuasion. You will be able to hear some of the top hedge fund managers as well as network with the best of the best in the value investing world. So if you are interested, do not miss this opportunity.

Good luck!

You have been a loyal reader of this site for a long time. I am opening up a discounted registration window for my loyal readers. From now till Sep 15th, 2009, you will be able to register for the Premium content at 50% discount of the regular price.

Please visit the membership page for more details and to lock in your discounted price.

Happy Investing!

So what the heck is this membership section?

This is a section of the website reserved for paying registered members only. I will continue to post my normal blog for free. The paid members  have access to deeper and more exclusive content which is not  available on the free site. Here are a few benefits you get:

• Individual stock/fund analysis and picks
• Access to my personal portfolio (real time) verified by Covestor
• Detailed rationale for any new buys or sells
• Monthly investing newsletter delivered to the members via an exclusive email newsletter
• Access to a member exclusive investing forum where you can discuss all things related to investing with other members that share a value investing or fundamental analysis philosophy
• Periodic detailed stock/fund reports offered to members at a nominal price or for free. These same reports may be offered to non-members on the free section of the site at a much higher regular price

Over time, additional features and benefits will be added.

I plan to make this membership section a premier place on the internet for all value and fundamental investors to congregate. Consequently, the content will be of very high quality and the membership will include only serious long term investors with more than cursory interest in investing. I welcome all investors that subscribe to this philosophy regardless of their level of investing experience.

But if you are a short term investor or a day trader, this site is not for you!

Personal Dividends is an online magazine format blog where we will be featuring some great writers writing about topics that help in adding value to one’s life. Yes, Money and Wealth is one aspect of life we will talk about, but we will additionally talk about Lifestyle issues as well as Culture and Arts. So essentially, we are trying to answer two questions at Personal Dividends:

1. How do I make money (career and Entrepreneurship), Save, Invest, Plan, Retire, etc to improve my financial well being, and
2. How do I make right choices in my life to achieve a great lifestyle and an appreciation for finer things in life

The site is still in the launch phase and frankly a lot of work still needs to be done. I do want to reach out to you readers at this stage for your feedback on the site. Additionally, I know many of my readers are either writers with their own sites or persons with keen interest in these topics and willing to add their thoughts to the discussion. I would therefore love for you to consider Registering as a Contributor to Personal Dividends. You can write for any section on the site and there are no deadlines to worry about. If you are interested, please visit the site and review the Write for Us page. Feel free to contact me on either site if you have any questions (or you can email me at arohan at arohanvalue dot com or admin at personaldividends dot com; you may also twitter me, my twitter id is arohan)

Arohan’s investing life will continue as a value investing blog but maybe a little more focused now moving forward on investment topics (less of commentaries; you may now find them at Personal Dividends)

Thanks and Wishing everyone a great and Prosperous New Year!

- The Dow dropped 777 points today as compared to a 684 point drop on the first trading day after Sep 11 attacks in 2001

- The plan rejection saved taxpayers 700 B dollars over the next 1-2 years. The plan rejection wiped out the taxpayers 1.4 Trillion dollars in shareholder  value in just one day. Yes, we the taxpayers lost twice the amount today than what we would have spent under the Paulson plan over the next 1-2 years.

- The tight credit environment may make it difficult for retailers to stock up for the holiday season (or the producers to ramp up production for the holiday season) as the producers and the retailers will be less able to take out temporary loans. But the consumers very likely will have less money to spend. Grinch and Christmas come to mind

If the Congress does not come to its senses today, we are probably looking at some really uncomfortable changes in the American lifestyle for quite some time.

It maybe instructive at this time to review why this problem became this large. Couple of the following articles sum up the genesis of the problem rather nicely

From Bloomberg

and From WSJ

Now of course the problems were compounded later when the street failed to recognize the riskiness of the paper they were dabbling in but they have paid the price. As I write this, Senator Obama appears to be widening his lead in the polls and the way the media and our elected lawmakers are spinning this crisis it may very well happen that the party responsible for this debacle may end up taking the congress and the Presidency.

If that happens, it will be a sad day for the country!