Adding to what Mark said, there is a thread here on the SA Options board discussing one:
http://discussion.fool.com/1081/ot-mf-one-31416157.aspx?sort=who…
If you don’t subscribe to SA, my post is shown below. It was originally a response to people on PRO, hence the references:
There is no prying PRO away from you if you join MF One - PRO is included as part of it.
I decided to give MF One a one year trial earlier this year, and so far have found it worthwhile on a number of counts. Prior to subscribing to One, I was already subscribing to most of the services anyway, so the incremental cost wasn’t that bad. It would have been an even better deal if I had committed to a 5 year sub, which I didn’t. There is a money back guarantee up until the end of the first year, so there is nothing to lose by giving it a try.
If you are only currently subscribing to PRO and MFO, then the incremental cost would be more significant.
The things that I like about it are:
- They pull together information from all the different services in a fairly seamless way. For example you can see the top recommendations from every service summarized together on one page. They have a stock screener which has similar functionality, so you can see which services have recommended a stock, then you can click on the ticker and it takes you to a page that pulls together the coverage, recommendations, board posts etc form all Services that have that stock as a recommendation. This might be the single most powerful and worthwhile aspect of MF One
- They’ve just introduced a feature called ‘Everlasting Raves’ which does a very nice job of summarizing the investment thesis for each recommendation in Tom’s Everlasting Portfolio.
- they have a bunch of MF One exclusive content, including an excellent library of Tom Gardner interviews with CEO’s and other people, and articles by Morgan Housel
- They have an Around the Fool option which pulls together Alerts, articles etc from all the services into one place
- You get much more interaction on the One message boards from Tom, Morgan Housel, Alyce Lomax and Toby Bordelon (TMFEpsilon) amongst others.
- They offer Managed Accounts, which are supposed to follow particular service offerings - e.g instead of following PRO yourself, you could have a Managed Account which would mimic the PRO portfolio. This was attractive to me (and a number of other people) as a possible solution to managing our assets on behalf of my wife if something happens to me. I should say though to be fair, that they are in the process of re-thinking this for reasons that are not entirely clear.
- They hold regular live events for members - I went to one in Alexandria earlier this year and one in San Francisco this summer. These were both excellent and energizing. You get to meet a lot of Fools that you know from the boards.
- I was pleasantly surprised after I joined One, how many people I know well on the boards over the years were One members.
So, it may not be for everyone, it may be too expensive, but if you value having access to everything on TMF, streamlined in a way to help you make more efficient use of it, I would definitely recommend giving it a try.
You’ll probably find that you still spend most of your social time here on PRO, just as most of my board time is still on Stock Advisor.
One thing I forgot to include in my list of things about MF One, whioh came up in the Live Chat is that As a member of Fool ONE, you would have access to our international services, too, including Canada, Australia, Singapore (when launched) and Germany (when launched).
This is a nice perk - I’ve looked at the Canadian site for more coverage of Canadian companies.
John