Our annual look at a few things "Foolish" including a new fund, Motley Fool 100 (TMFC) ... some perspective on the efficacy of Value Line ... and another month of market-beating performance for Tin Cup.

Over eight years since inception, our Round Table tracking portfolio checks in at 18.8% -- beating the Wilshire 5000 by 6-7 percentage points. The February Round Table session featured our annual awards -- swept by Kim Butcher and the audience. 2017 was very very good for the Round Table selections.

It was a spectacular year for Groundhog Nation. Our contest participants brought home an average annual return of 30.6%! For context, the Wilshire 5000 (VTSMX) advanced a mere 22.4%. We have repeat champions in both the individual and group categories.

Breaking News: Tin Cup Tops $2,000,000 ... we'll take a look at the performance of our tracking portfolios and update the Manifest 40 -- your most widely-followed stocks.

Welcome to the time-honored community of QWARF. During a month where our Tin Cup demonstration portfolio was torrid and is approaching $2,000,000 -- we are reminded of the dimensions of discipline that guide our journey to investing success.

Another banner year for our annual Best Small Companies feature. How much banner? 31.7%. What are the most compelling smaller companies for 2018?

"Friends Don't Let Friends Be Average Investors." This month we're reminded of the power of community-driven investing and we make our preparations for small company discovery -- our annual quest for the Best Rapidly-Growing Companies.

In September, we'll go "Back to School" with our launch of the Turnout Tuesday series ... a session on Selling Better? and future sessions on topics of interest to long-term investors.

We’ve long believed that the collection of findings and recommendations in the Individual Investors Manual represent the wisdom of 50 years of successful investing with much of the content supplied by George Nicholson.

The quest for excellent small companies never ends. From Bio-Reference Labs to NavTeq to Buffalo Wild Wings … growth succeeds. We believe that we deliver maximum value when we expose actionable ideas for consideration and analysis. Check out our weekly updates on the Forum as we sift for suitable nuggets.

Successful investing is turbocharged by the power of a few basis points over time as we launch some studies into potential selling disciplines and best practices. We hope to build some very actionable portfolio management ideas.

The debate of growth vs. value strategies will never end. Some believe that carefully-selected growth will prevail while others point to the long-term results of value-based investors. We think they’re both right and actually practice both approaches.

How useful are target prices? We'll continue to explore the utility of analyst consensus one year estimates but this one year perspective on Goldman Sachs threw us a March Madness sized curve ball.

A group of investors heeding the lessons of Graham, Babson and Nicholson has at least one leg up on the crowd and a better than average opportunity to generate exceptional returns.

Building expectations. It's a large measure of what sets our community of investors apart. How much value is there in 1-year forecasts?

Welcome to the junction of Imagination and Vision. A big part of what sets our community of investors apart is visual context while building and monitoring expectations.

Over the years, our quest to seek promising small companies has yielded the likes of BRLI, IPCM, CYBX and substantial rewards. This month, we're proud to present the Manifest Investing 50 Best Small Companies for 2016. Explore. Enjoy.

It’s been the theme of the MANIFEST 40 since that first collection was published ten years ago. By discovering the best companies while investing with your friends, we believe that we all have a leg up on the “average investor.” The performance observed over the last ten years validates our hopes and expectations.

Stock-based alerts already make a difference, Brian Hayek celebrates dividend divas, and Ken Kavula delivers a portfolio analysis primer.

"Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.” -- Marc Ostrofsky This month we begin coverage of Alerts as vigilance tools and continue to feature our portfolio design and management resources.