Famous Investors
Known as the "Oracle of Omaha", This famous investor served as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway from 1970 to 2025.
Warren Buffett
This two-word term describes a prolonged market trend characterized by rising stock prices and high investor optimism.
What is a Bull Market?
As a result of a rampant A.I. bull market, the Skone Investment Club Portfolio hit this milestone in June 2026?
What is $400,000?
Triggered by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and high-risk financial derivatives, this major economic crisis was the worst severe global downturn since the Great Depression.
What is the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (Great Recession)?
Headquartered in Cupertino, California, this consumer tech giant was the first U.S. public company to reach a $3 trillion market cap.
Who is Apple?
The founder of Vanguard, now one of the largest investment firms in the world. This investor pioneered the idea of the index fund in 1976.
Who is John (Jack) Bogle?
Derived from Latin for "to divide," this term refers to a portion of a company's earnings distributed directly to shareholders.
What is a Dividend?
Available free to investment club members, This financial services firm offers independent research and analysis for investors and is best known for its 1 to 5 star rating system.
What is Morningstar?
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 following the 1929 crash, this U.S. federal agency was created to enforce securities laws, regulate financial markets, and protect investors.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Headquartered in South Korea, this electronics titan is the world's largest producer of memory chips and smartphones.
Who is Samsung?
Known as the "Father of Value Investing," this mentor to Warren Buffett authored "The Intelligent Investor".
Benjamin Graham
This strategy involves regularly investing a fixed dollar amount into a security at set intervals, regardless of whether the share price is rising or falling.
What is Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)?
This sector represents the largest portion of the Investment Club portfolio by a wide margin, currently equivalent to 35.74%.
What is Technology?
On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a massive single-day drop of 22.6%, earning this dark market event its infamous name.
What is Black Monday?
Headquartered in Dhahran, this state-owned energy company went public in 2019 in what was then the world's largest initial public offering. (They also sponsor a Formula One team!)
Who is Saudi Aramco?
Popularized by the film "The Big Short", this hedge fund manager made over $100 million personally by using credit default swaps to bet against the U.S. housing bubble prior to 2008.
Who is Michael Burry?
Abbreviated as IPO, this is the very first time a private company sells shares of its stock to the general public.
What is an Initial Public Offering?
The second longest held position in the investment club portfolio, this Minnesota company is known for the production of a wide variety of industrial adhesives, abrasives, and safety products.
What is 3M?
In late 1990s market history, the rapid rise and crash of speculative tech stock valuations is known by this moniker.
What is the Dot-com Bubble?
Based in Taiwan, this semiconductor foundry manufactures chips for major global tech companies including Apple, Nvidia, and AMD.
Who is TSMC?
A mathematics PhD, this hedge fund manager was responsible for the creation of "The Medallion Fund", a highly secret quant firm that has averaged 39.9% returns since 1988.
Who is Jim Simons
Represented by a Greek letter, this statistical measure indicates a stock's volatility relative to the broader market.
What is Beta?
A proponent of the use of options and other financial derivatives, this former investment club CIO graduated in 2026.
Who is Nyhira Gambrah?
Established in 1602 to trade spices, this European enterprise is widely recognized as the world's first publicly traded company.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
Headquartered in Denmark, this pharmaceutical company was an industry pioneer in GLP-1 products, most well known for their Type-2 Diabetes drug, Ozempic.
Who is Novo Nordisk?