Houston Investor Day – Growth Stock Investing for Financial Independence
03/28/2026
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8:30 am - 3:00 pm CT
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Cost: Early Bird Price $50 by February 1, 2026 Regular Price $60
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Tickets must be purchased in advance via the registration link for the live event.
Description
We are excited to bring back live events to Houston! We are happy to announce Houston Investor Day - Growth Stock Investing for Financial Independence, a full-day event with three national speakers on March 28, 2026.
Our Agenda
• 8:30-9:00: Registration
• 9:00 - 12:00: Mark Robertson & Ken Kavula
• 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch / Award & Anniversary Presentations / Door Prizes
• 1:00 - 2:00: Doug Gerlach
• 2:00 - 2:45 Stock Panel – Actionable Stock Ideas
• 2:45 – 3:00 Closing Remarks
Expect the discussions to be interactive. We are starting off with a bang, with three of the best national speakers in our organization. Full of timeless investing insight--they have over a hundred years of combined investing experience! Our speakers are looking forward to hearing and answering your questions.
Enjoy fellowship with other stock investors near you. Come get reacquainted with old friends and meet new ones. Personal connection is important, even in this digital age!
You will leave the event with several excellent stock study ideas, and tools to add to your investing toolbox to improve your results!
Mark Robertson is the founder of Manifest Investing, which focuses on investment education to enable investors to experience successful long-term fundamental investing. Manifest Investing features an e-newsletter and also provides investment research for stock and fund screening and resources for portfolio design and management. Mark formerly served as senior contributing editor for BetterInvesting magazine and has appeared on National Public Radio, CNBC and ABC to discuss long-term investing. He has worked with Smart Money, Barron’s, Money magazine and the Motley Fool, and published features in the Chicago Tribune and a number of local publications.
Ken Kavula has been volunteering for BetterInvesting for almost 25 years. He devoted his professional career to education and served as a high school principal for 21 years. Ken is a regular on Ticker Talk as well as his own chapter's Investing Roundtable and Investing Topics programs. He is a popular speaker at chapter events throughout the country and visits at least one club a month within his own chapter. Ken was awarded the George Nicholson award for contributions to investment education as well as the Dick Dwyer award and the Kenfield-Burris awards.
A familiar name to many BetterInvesting and investment club members, Doug Gerlach is a Vice-President of BetterInvesting and President of ICLUBcentral Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of BetterInvesting). He leads ICLUBcentral’s development of tools for investors and investment clubs, including StockCentral, myICLUB.com, and myICLUB Club Tax. Doug is Editor-in-Chief of three stock investing newsletters, the award-winning Investor Advisory Service, the market-beating SmallCap Informer, and the new Dividend Informer. Doug has written six books, including “Investment Clubs for Dummies” and “The Armchair Millionaire.” He is a popular speaker at events for BetterInvesting, the American Association of Individual Investors, and for other organizations nationwide.
Register for our Investor Day by clicking the green "Register Here" button above.
We’d love to have you join us!
As we stretch to do larger events, more hands are welcome! If you can pitch in, be it with planning, on site work, or digital support, please reach out to contact@houston.betterinvesting.net
Our Agenda
• 8:30-9:00: Registration
• 9:00 - 12:00: Mark Robertson & Ken Kavula
• 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch / Award & Anniversary Presentations / Door Prizes
• 1:00 - 2:00: Doug Gerlach
• 2:00 - 2:45 Stock Panel – Actionable Stock Ideas
• 2:45 – 3:00 Closing Remarks
Expect the discussions to be interactive. We are starting off with a bang, with three of the best national speakers in our organization. Full of timeless investing insight--they have over a hundred years of combined investing experience! Our speakers are looking forward to hearing and answering your questions.
Enjoy fellowship with other stock investors near you. Come get reacquainted with old friends and meet new ones. Personal connection is important, even in this digital age!
You will leave the event with several excellent stock study ideas, and tools to add to your investing toolbox to improve your results!
Mark Robertson is the founder of Manifest Investing, which focuses on investment education to enable investors to experience successful long-term fundamental investing. Manifest Investing features an e-newsletter and also provides investment research for stock and fund screening and resources for portfolio design and management. Mark formerly served as senior contributing editor for BetterInvesting magazine and has appeared on National Public Radio, CNBC and ABC to discuss long-term investing. He has worked with Smart Money, Barron’s, Money magazine and the Motley Fool, and published features in the Chicago Tribune and a number of local publications.
Ken Kavula has been volunteering for BetterInvesting for almost 25 years. He devoted his professional career to education and served as a high school principal for 21 years. Ken is a regular on Ticker Talk as well as his own chapter's Investing Roundtable and Investing Topics programs. He is a popular speaker at chapter events throughout the country and visits at least one club a month within his own chapter. Ken was awarded the George Nicholson award for contributions to investment education as well as the Dick Dwyer award and the Kenfield-Burris awards.
A familiar name to many BetterInvesting and investment club members, Doug Gerlach is a Vice-President of BetterInvesting and President of ICLUBcentral Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of BetterInvesting). He leads ICLUBcentral’s development of tools for investors and investment clubs, including StockCentral, myICLUB.com, and myICLUB Club Tax. Doug is Editor-in-Chief of three stock investing newsletters, the award-winning Investor Advisory Service, the market-beating SmallCap Informer, and the new Dividend Informer. Doug has written six books, including “Investment Clubs for Dummies” and “The Armchair Millionaire.” He is a popular speaker at events for BetterInvesting, the American Association of Individual Investors, and for other organizations nationwide.
Register for our Investor Day by clicking the green "Register Here" button above.
We’d love to have you join us!
As we stretch to do larger events, more hands are welcome! If you can pitch in, be it with planning, on site work, or digital support, please reach out to contact@houston.betterinvesting.net
