An investment research and education company for ordinary households. Not a tip service, not a signal feed. We teach people to judge an investment for themselves — and we build the machinery that makes those judgements honest.
What we do
We run a Summer Camp for Kitchen Table Investors — a course taught one lesson at a time, for people who were never given a way into this. Alongside it we build BrainTrust Investment Lab: a research warehouse measured to an institutional standard, so nothing taught in the course rests on a number nobody checked.
Those two halves are one product. A lesson is only as good as the numbers beneath it, and a number is only useful to someone who can read it. Most of this industry sells one half and assumes the other.
What we believe
Give a man a fish, and he will be hungry again tomorrow;teach him to catch a fish, and he will be richer all his life.
Thousands of services will hand you a fish and leave you no smarter than the day you started — a customer who must come back forever. Every recommendation we make arrives with the reasoning behind it: the data, the thinking, the probability, the risk. Over time you need us less. That is the intention.
Two goals, one road. Growing the portfolio is the account’s goal. Growing the investor is yours — and yours is the one that lasts. A portfolio can be handed to anyone; the judgement to run one cannot. We grow Investors.
How the teaching works
No questionnaire, no intake form. Every question is asked inside the lesson that needs it, because a question asked inside the task explains itself. “When might you need this money?” on a form is prying; the same question while you choose where to put your floor is obviously part of choosing it.
Every class ends with something done, not something memorised. The paralysis that keeps people out of the market is not broken by more information. It is broken by finishing something.
Who we are
Small on purpose. Three people carry the decisions, and every ruling this house runs on is dated and on the record — including the wrong ones.
Reach us at [email protected].
What this is not — the legal part
Camp Kiser Investments is an investment research and education project produced by Duane Kiser. Nothing in BrainTrust Investment Lab or its materials constitutes investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice, an offer to buy or sell any security, or a recommendation tailored to any individual’s financial situation, objectives, or risk tolerance. Camp Kiser Investments is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner, and no fiduciary relationship is created by use of this software.
All recommendations, model portfolios, back-tests, and probability estimates are illustrative — produced to demonstrate a research process, not to direct anyone’s trades. Past performance does not predict future results. Every investment can lose value, including all principal.
BrainTrust Investment Lab relies on third-party data. No warranty is made as to completeness, timeliness, or accuracy. Do your own research and consult a licensed advisor before acting on anything you read here.