A Few Moments With ... Our Sandboxes

*Join us for a Webinar on February 15*

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By popular demand, we'll spend some time with a couple of the portfolio decision resources at Manifest Investing, the MyStudy module for auditing individual stock analysis and the portfolio worksheet for "what if" explorations for investment clubs and individual portfolios.

Title: A Few Moments With ... Our Sandboxes
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:59 AM EST

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Mark Robertson hosts "A Few Moments With... Our Sandboxes," a Saturday morning educational webinar for Manifest Investing community members. Robertson reinforces concepts from a Thursday night webcast for the D.C. regional chapter of Better Investing, focusing on portfolio design and management tools available through the Manifest platform. The session emphasizes the Manifest Method's core philosophy: analyzing quality companies at reasonable prices through fundamental analysis, building long-term forecasts based on five-year horizons, and understanding business models to identify investment opportunities. Robertson demonstrates the platform's powerful resources while maintaining that all discussions are educational demonstrations of investment philosophy rather than specific recommendations.

The presentation covers two main sandbox tools—one for analyzing individual stocks and another for portfolios—and reviews a Monday morning summary from the Manifest Investing Forum that identifies potential stock opportunities by comparing Friday's closing prices to Morningstar fair values. Robertson walks through current stock screening results from both Morningstar and Standard & Poor's, highlighting companies trading below fair value across various sectors. Key to the discussion is the concept of the "sweet spot," where stocks offer attractive valuations without being suspiciously underpriced, and the importance of identifying threats and opportunities to established business trends, a principle attributed to investment club grandfather George Nicholson Jr.