The Perfect Investment?

Editor's note: Regular Empire Financial Daily readers may recognize the name Wayne Mulligan... Wayne is one of the newest gurus under the MarketWise umbrella. He has been involved in early-stage technology startups for nearly three decades, working as a software developer, marketer, advisor, and founder. After graduating from Columbia University and building and selling three […] Not rendering correctly? View this e-mail as a web page [here](. [Empire Financial Daily] Editor's note: Regular Empire Financial Daily readers may recognize the name Wayne Mulligan... Wayne is one of the newest gurus under the MarketWise umbrella. He has been involved in early-stage technology startups for nearly three decades, working as a software developer, marketer, advisor, and founder. After graduating from Columbia University and building and selling three tech startups of his own, Wayne turned his focus to helping individual investors profit from private investing. In today's essay, he explains how he's found what he calls the "perfect investment"... --------------------------------------------------------------- The Perfect Investment? By Wayne Mulligan --------------------------------------------------------------- [The $2 stock that's driving investors nuts]( One company is at the forefront of a technology that the late Steve Jobs earmarked as a "new era" just like the digital era. It has a $3 billion market cap... Millions of shares trade hands every day... And yet not one in 100 investors has probably ever heard of it before. But one analyst – who invested in Apple, Amazon, and Netflix way before they were household names – has gone on the record saying, "If I had to invest my wife's full retirement account in one stock (again)... hands down this would be the one." [Learn more here](. --------------------------------------------------------------- Finding winning investments is tough in this environment... But I know of an investment that's not just a winner... it's close to perfect. Historically, it's been off-limits to almost everyone but the ultra-rich. But not anymore. Let me tell you about it. The investment I'm referring to is a venture capital fund... Venture funds are professionally managed portfolios of startup investments. They're like mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. But instead of containing a portfolio of public stocks, they contain a portfolio of private startups. No matter what you're investing in, diversification is key. But it's especially important with startups. Generally speaking, startups are riskier than stocks. So to minimize your risk in this asset class, you need a portfolio of them. But it's worth it... You see, the profits from startups can be far higher than the profits from stocks... Historically, stocks have returned an average of about 6% per year. But even when you factor in the winners and the losers, over the past two decades, early-stage startups have returned an average of 55% per year. (To put that in perspective, at 55% per year, in 20 years, you could turn a $500 stake into more than $3.2 million.) And if you happen to get an Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google or a Meta Platforms' (META) Facebook or an Amazon (AMZN) in your startup portfolio, you could earn hundreds or even thousands of times your money. For example, our friend and colleague Howard Lindzon made 400 times his money by investing in ride-sharing company Uber (UBER) back when it was an early-stage private startup. That's enough to turn every $5,000 he invested into $2 million. And Facebook's first private investor made about 2,000 times his money. That's enough to turn every $5,000 into $10 million. Can you imagine? --------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended Link: # [Like Tesla on steroids]( Elon Musk is creating Tesla Automotive's biggest competition. He's just launched Tesla Energy Ventures that will deal in "PVAB" energy. As Musk recently said: "I expect [PVAB] to be roughly the same size as Tesla's automotive business." According to global energy research agency Wood Mackenzie, Tesla's energy business is already growing faster than its car business. Unfortunately, Tesla Energy Ventures is not yet publicly traded. But there is still a way to get in to the PVAB energy space right away. [Click here for more details](. --------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, getting into a venture fund is easier said than done... For example, the minimum investment to get into a venture fund is generally six to seven figures, and often far more. So at a bare minimum, it'll cost you $100,000 just to get your foot in the door. But that's not the only hurdle. Here are a few others... - Fiercely Competitive Because of their stellar performance, getting into a venture fund is no easy feat. Unless you have a connection to someone on the inside, there's almost no way you're getting in. - Along for the Ride With venture funds, you have no say in how your capital is invested. You might have decades of experience in a particular industry, and you might discover that your fund manager made a horrible investment in that sector. But there's nothing you can do about it. You're just along for the ride. - The Fees And finally, there's the fees. Not only do fund managers take a 2% management fee each year, but they also take 20% to 30% of your profits. That could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars over time. So, sure, venture capital funds offer huge upside. But not only are there challenges in getting into one in the first place... even if you could get into one, there's plenty of downside. What if I told you that you could get all the positives of a traditional venture capital fund with none of the negatives... What if you could put yourself in a position to earn the potentially life-changing returns that venture capital funds offer... but with none of the drawbacks like high investment minimums or high fees? Well, now you can... My colleague Matt Milner recently sat down on camera to explain why CNBC calls venture capital "the best retirement investment you can't have"... how a recent law change is finally giving you access to this ultra-lucrative investment... and how to potentially turn every $5,000 investment into $50,000 in the next year. [Watch it before it goes offline by clicking here](. 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