Value, be it the value of a house, a business, or a normal sized trading lot of shares of a public company is equal to the present value of all future benefits expected to be derived therefrom. Value, being point in time specific, changes with changing circumstances and conditions both internal to (i.e. within the control of the owner) and external to (i.e. outside the control of the owner) the asset. The determination of the value of any asset absent an actual open market negotiation where both buyer and seller have full knowledge (or at least access to full knowledge) of matters relevant to an asset’s value can be said to be determined in hypothetical market.

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Investment Advisors come in all manner of age, motivation, contacts, intellect, financial knowledge, business experience, stock market experience, financial and analytic support from their employers, and so on. Our own experience is that ‘a good one is not easy to find’, and that unless one has a great deal of money invested through a particular investment advisor, it is hard to get the time and attention of ‘a good one’ because they are in high demand. Accepting that Investment Advisors are conscientious professionals who take their client’s interests seriously, we believe many of them are essentially intermediaries who ‘sell’ to their clients the expertise of their employers or money managers their employers recommend. This obviously is a different role than that of an ‘advisor’ who analyzes, either on their own or in combination with their clients, analysts and others, and makes buy, sell and hold recommendations to their clients. In January, 2007 we conducted surveys in both the U.S. and Canada that in part asked questions of investors related to their interaction with their investment advisors. Our questions and the answers, derived from respondents with more than $100,000 invested in publicly traded securities, were:

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Studies suggest that between July, 2000 and July, 2007 Internet users increased worldwide by over 3 times from approximately 360 million to 1.1 billion users, and increased in North America by over 2 times from approximately 110 to 235 million users (Source: Internet World Stats). This suggests that at July, 2007 approximately 17% of the current world population of some 6.6 billion people were Internet users, and that approximately 70% of North Americans were Internet Users. Prior to developing StockResearchDD.com, we were given a private study that suggested that in late 2005 approximately 50% of all retail stock market investors did at least some stock research on the Internet, and that the number of investors doing this was growing each year by between 1 - 2%.

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