Investment themes of the future

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. -- Reid Hoffman

Picture this: 

​On the weekends, a 30-something-year-old girl, sitting on her favorite sofa, legs on the coffee table, sipping coffee, and busy doing something on her laptop. Maybe she is binge-watching Netflix? Is she? You look closer at her screen, and you see her reading some PDF documents. Occasionally, she raises her eyebrows in surprise, or frowns in disappointment, and types a few numbers and sentences in an excel file. What's she up to? 

The PDF-reading, excel junkie is our CEO and Co-founder and you just pictured her finding a new theme that led to several market-beating investments. Investing by theme is a performance-based way of diversifying. Commonly, people diversify by sector or region to make sure they can balance off potential declines in one stock by the growth in another. But, when you diversify by theme, you are consistently picking top-performing stock without sacrificing performance in the name of diversification. For our CEO, Amazon and the 'rise of e-commerce' theme outperformed the market by 277%. Nvidia and the 'brain of the cars' theme outperformed the market by 542%. These were some of her favorite investment themes which are now mainstream ideas of the stock market. What to do now? What would an intelligent investor do? ​

Introducing the Stock Card's new investment themes!
Two days ago, we quietly launched a new feature that brought a big smile of nostalgia to our CEO's face. For a few weeks, we have been spending hundreds of hours on market research, reading annual reports, sifting through thousands of articles, and compiling a new set of future-defining themes. Our goal is to make well-educated, data-informed, and emotion-less long-term bets on the companies that are changing the world from the way we know it. Such detailed research and data-forward investment approach is the underlying strength of Stock Card's new investment themes feature. We built each theme to address one significant trend that is shaping the future, just like how our CEO used to do. From now on, every week we will introduce you to at least one new Stock Card from those themes in which we plan to add to our real-money portfolio.

Keep calm and invest!
If you have been with us in the past few months, you have seen how Stock Cards save you the pain of detailed, data-heavy, emotion-free research and present to you each investment opportunity in a fun and interactive way. Now, with the new investment themes, you can continue laying back on your sofa, sipping your Sunday morning tea or coffee and find new investment ideas before you finish your beverage. Click on 'Our Performance' page to experience the calmness of investing in the future. 

Build your own themes!
You can be a part of it too. Create your own themes on 'My Portfolio" page, find those future-defining stocks, submit a Stock Card request so that we can do the research for you and track your investment smarts against the overall market! Let's go!

What has been on our radar?
Before we wrap up, here are some of the latest Stock Card requests by our users:

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