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Mirror kaChing Genius Investor Ryuto Andrew Kawai: The Smarter Alternative to Mutual Funds
What Kawai Capital is All About
Kawai Capital is the investing home of Ryuto A. Kawai (Andy), kaChing Genius Investor. The site was started in October 2009 with the primary purpose of supporting those investors looking to mirror Andy on kaChing, and secondarily as a financial blog and newsletter site.
About kaChing:
Quoted From Marketwire (Oct 19, 2009 08:30 ET):
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kaChing is an investing talent marketplace where individual investors gain access to the best investing talent on the Web. An SEC registered investment adviser, kaChing enables customers to mirror automatically the trades of kaChing investors who have an Investing IQ of 140 or greater. The company's investors include Marc Andreessen, Jeff Jordan, CEO of Open Table and former president of PayPal, and retired partners from Benchmark Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For more information, please visit www.kaChing.com or add the kaChing application on Facebook, iPhone, or Yahoo!."
Merits of kaChing include:
"-- Radical Transparency: kaChing publishes data on every trade that an
investor makes and offers customers access to real-time analytics
previously available only to the wealthy.
-- Investing IQ: kaChing provides the first objective, data-driven metric
to evaluate investor skill -- modeled after the approach of Ivy League
endowments -- so customers understand who is truly talented.
-- Real-Time Drift Alerts: No more waiting for quarterly statements;
kaChing immediately alerts customers about any unexpected Genius behavior.
-- Lower, transparent fees: Unlike mutual funds which can charge
aggregate annual fees in excess of 3 percent, a large portion of which are
often hidden, kaChing charges its customers a simple, straightforward fee
expected to average 1.25 percent annually.
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About Mirroring on kaChing
The financial crisis of 2008 not only exposed the previously hidden risks within our American financial system; they also exposed financial criminals and the bare-faced greed and lack of integrity within some firms in Wall Street. That the retail investor lost trust in stock investing is an understatement. With hard-earned money, vacations, college tuitions, and retirements at risk, everyday Americans deserve an investment option that that they feel comfortable with.
kaChing mirroring allows any individual within the US with the appropriate minimum (usually $3000), to match trade-for-trade, the select brightest minds kaChing has to offer for a set fee. There is one fee, dictated by the manager, rather than a set of fees such as load fees, 12-b fees, exit fees, and other indirect fees that are common when investing in mutual funds. Compared to the standard 2% of assets, and 20% performance fee standard in the hedge fund industry, kaChing averages a fee below 2% of assets with no performance fee. Compared to hedge funds, mirroring a kaChing genius investor does not require the investor to be accredited.
kaChing Mirroring Provides Greater Transparency
When mirroring kaChing investors, there is a greater degree of transparency. Not only is there a research requirement for kaChing virtual investors to prove that they are skilled and not lucky, most top kaChing investors maintain a voluntary blog or post regularly on the kaChing forum wall, detailing investment rationale. Once selected as a kaChing genius investor, there is a thorough interview process, and application process that acts to filter unscrupulous individuals.
Other Merits of kaChing Mirroring
That the administration of money allocation into equities is conducted by kaChing through Interactive Brokers, ensures that there is no inappropriate commingling of funds. During the application process, kaChing further requires disclosure of other brokerage accounts from all its Genius Investors. In short, kaChing has innovated ways to provide protection for investors looking to mirror their favorite Genius Investor.
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