Phillips and Motley Fool team up on newsletter.The Motley Fool financial media company and publisher Phillips Investment Resources, a Phillips International Inc. company, joined forces to create David & Tom Gardner's Motley Fool Stock Advisor. The new service, launched March 19, is based on a monthly print newsletter ($99.95/year charter rate), but it also features exclusive access to the investment expertise of Motley Fool co-founders David and Tom Gardner Tom Gardner (born April 16, 1968) is one of the three founders of The Motley Fool and the current Motley Fool Fantasy Football champ. He is currently co-chairman of the board of The Motley Fool. . That investment expertise comes through two channels: Fool flash, relevant e-mail updates about breaking financial news; and www.FoolAdvisor.com, online access to the Gardner brothers' latest advice and their Stock Scorecard, which tracks the performance of their recommended stocks. "The last two years have been a wild ride for individual investors, including Tom and me," said David Gardner David Gardner is one of the three founders of The Motley Fool. He is currently co-chairman of the board. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship. . "Our Motley Fool Stock Advisor service is more than just an exciting opportunity to reach investors offline. It's a chance for us to deepen our relationship with our customers by doing what we are personally passionate about-demystifying the stock market, helping people identify good, sound, long-term investments, and sharing what we have learned over the years, both as investors and as businessmen. "The Motley Fool was actually founded as a newsletter in 1993," said Jonathan Mudd, vice president and general manager at The Motley Fool, "so this is a little like 'Back to the Future' for the company." Phillips, 7811 Montrose Rd., Potomac, MD 20854, 301-340-2100, fax 301-340-0877, www.phillips.com. Motley Fool, 123 Pitt St., Alexandria, VA 22314703-254-1999, www.fool.com. RELATED ARTICLE: About The Motley Fool The Motley Fool Inc. is a multimedia personal finance company that "educates, amuses, and enriches more than 30 million people each month" through its award-winning website at www.Fool.com; its best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best books (over 1.8 million sold); a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column carried by more than 225 publications; and "The Motely Fool Radio Show," a joint venture with NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . "The Motley Fool's name was chosen from Shakespeare to reflect the spirit of truthful fun that the company brings to the world of personal finance. In Elizabethan drama, only the Fool could speak the truth-and debunk de·bunk tr.v. de·bunked, de·bunk·ing, de·bunks To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of: debunk a supposed miracle drug. conventional wisdom--without getting his head lopped off.... The Motley Fool is a private company based in Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,284. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) south of downtown Washington, DC. . Investors include AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner Ventures, Maveron, Mayfield Fund Mayfield Fund is a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, home to many of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms. Mayfield was founded in 1969 by Tommy Davis, one of the first venture capitalists. , and Softbank Finance." Excerpted from a company release |
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