As we discussed back on the homepage, you should focus on doing more than just passive learning. Find peers, mentors, and networks to engage with to accelerate your learning on your journey to becoming an investor!
Some of these are free, but even for those that aren't, if you're interested and need financial assistance, please reach out to the owner of the program as scholarships/discounts may be available for students or individuals in need, even if not officially advertised.
Here are some ideas below:
- Twitter – a wealth of free knowledge (though also a lot of noise). Find some of your favorite business and investment thinkers on there, and build your list of follows from there.
- FundamentalEdge Online Academy - https://fundamentedge.com/analyst/. Only courses for aspiring analysts and interns. My understanding is they are willing to give scholarships to individuals with limited ability to pay.
- Inpractise – a well curated, ever-growing catalogue of executive interviews around interesting companies and industries, with an accessible subscription price. They have also been willing to give free subscriptions to undergrad students who ask for them.
- Columbia Value Investing Program – a 2 year program in the theory and practice of value investing
- Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing https://ndigi.nd.edu/. They have college and even pre-college programs.
- Ivey School Value Investing Program - https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/bengrahaminvesting/
- Engage Undergraduate Investment Conference at the University of Michigan - an undergrad-focused investment conference. https://www.umichuic.com/2023.
- Cornell's SC Johnson School of Business has multiple stock pitch and other investment-oriented conferences, including an undergraduate conference and a Women in Investing conference. https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/parker-center-for-investment-research/undergraduate-stock-pitch-challenge/
- Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings in Omaha – free to attend (as long as you own at least 1 share of Berkshire), every May in Omaha and thus a good beginner event.
- SumZero - a community of buyside (and aspiring buyside) investors, where you can read idea write ups and follow/meet other investors. They have a free subscription for students and student investing clubs. Email access@sumzero.com for more information.
- For India in particular, but valuable to anyone, are the teachings of Professor Sanjay Bakshi at the Flame University in Pune, India. You can learn more about him and his offerings here https://www.sanjaybakshi.net/. He includes information about the classes he teaches, his reading lists, and even publishes some lecture notes and videos.
- Manual of Ideas network and events
- RV Capital annual meeting (prior meetings are available on Youtube)
- Girls Who Invest - https://www.girlswhoinvest.org/
- Lighted Pathways - https://uncf.org/pages/about-the-uncf-lighted-pathways-program
- Wall Street Diversity Accelerator - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wallstreetdiversityaccelerator/
- If you are a student, I recommend finding, or founding, an investment club at your school. The investing club at Brown, my alma mater, even does a speaker series bringing in professional investors to speak to its members (https://www.youtube.com/@BrownUniversityValueInvesting/videos). Another option is to find a professor at your school, tell them about your interest in investing, and ask them for help. You'll be surprised sometimes by how if you actually do what they suggest, they'll continue to help you!
- Global Platinum Securities is an example of an intercollegiate student-run investment program at MIT, Harvard, Penn, University of Dayton, University of Colorado, and London School of Economics. https://public.gps100.com/what-we-do
- Good Investing Talks – a good community of investors, both early career and "emerging managers", in Europe.