If you’re wondering if joining Luke Lango’s Innovation Investor newsletter then you’re in the right place. In this Innovation Investor review, I’ll be going over what you get with this service and will take a deep dive into its performance.
Are Lango’s recommendations any good and is it worth joining? Don’t get too excited now.
Overview
- Editor: Luke Lango
- Publisher: InvestorPlace
- Investment Focus: Innovative “hyperscalable” companies
- Cost: $499/yr
If you’re familiar at all with Luke Lango, then you probably already know the guy is a futurist investor. With all of his newsletter services, he’s looking to find the ‘hottest’ new stocks and get in on them early to make heaps of money.
Well, that’s the idea anyhow.
Innovation Investor, as you can guess from the name, is focused on investing in innovative companies. More specifically:
Innovation Investor’s goal is to identify innovative companies with “hyperscalable’” businesses in unstoppable megatrends.
And.. the goal is to provide these investment opportunities on a monthly basis.
All sounds good and dandy, but of course, in this line of work timing is everything. And if you think it’s a sure thing you’ll strike it rich by following his recommendations here, relax a bit and read on. I’ll go over its track record in a bit.
Not only this, but there are a few other shady and important bits of information you should know about this service before making a final decision as to whether or not it’s worth the price tag.
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A look inside the member’s area
First off, let me give you a quick rundown of what you get when you join.
The member’s area is nicely laid out and I can’t complain much here, which is expected considering InvestorPlace is the publisher here and has years of experience with newsletter services such as this.
What you’ll find includes..
- Home
- Alerts
- Daily Notes
- Research
- Portfolios
- Videos
- Member Resources
Home
In the Home section, you’ll find a little bit of everything – all the recent updates from all the categories listed above (Alerts, Videos, etc.).
The Alerts are listed at the top which makes sense. After all, these should be the most time-sensitive.
What follows are some of the recent Videos, Daily Notes, and then, what I found rather funny, there are some articles at the bottom for Luke’s Hypergrowth Investing service here. I guess they’re trying to do some upsell cross-pollination to get members of this Innovation Investor service to buy into this other service of his as well.
Alerts
Pretty simple here. You’ll find buy and sell alerts for the most part but I see there are also some other special notices, such as recommendations due to mergers/acquisitions happening.
Each sell alert, for example, will tell you what to sell, how much you’re going to make or lose on the sale, and give a brief update on the markets and why Luke recommends selling.
You can see this alert – one of his better picks where he managed to bag ~365% profits.
Also, you can see that this alert is to only sell 1/12 of the position. This kind of selling only a portion of the position is what Luke likes to do instead of exiting all at once (if the trade’s going in our favor).
Daily Notes
Here you’ll find a daily briefing of the current market state and any current events that we should be aware of. Yes, daily. Luke doesn’t seem to miss a beat… or sleep.
For each update here, there’s an audio clip (4 – 9 minutes, but usually around 5) followed by text, which isn’t an exact transcript, so I’d recommend you both listen to the audio and read the text.
Research
In this section, you’ll find Special Reports where Luke goes into great detail laying out his latest investment targets that are considered “‘hyperscalable’” businesses in unstoppable megatrends.”
For example, his latest report at the moment includes:
- Nvidia’s Silent Suppliers: 3 Companies Powering Nvidia’s AI Revolution
- Goes over three companies that are doing business with Nvidia – a chipmaker, a company providing memory & storage solutions, and a company that provides cooling tech to data storage centers.
*Note: These special reports come out somewhat sporadically.
The one mentioned above is from Aug 7, 2024. Then, there are 3 other special reports from August as well and then the latest before those ones was way back in April. Quite a gap here.
Also, I believe these special reports align with his teasers. For example, at the time the special report I mentioned came out, I’m sure there was an investment presentation teasing the heck out of this opportunity and then pushing people to join Innovation Investor in order to get the special report and [hopefully] strike it rich.
Since you’re here reading this. I’m sure you are familiar with those stock teasers from Lango. I’m talking about those stock teaser presentations like this..
Portfolios
Here we have the model portfolios of all Luke’s recommendations.
These are split into two:
- Core (mid-risk, mid-reward)
- Venture (high-risk, high-reward)
I’ll take a deep dive into the overall performance of Lango’s recommendations later, but now I just want to give an overview.
Here you can see that the ticker, name, buy date, buy price, return, and so on are all neatly available for each stock (or crypto) pick..
At the moment, there are 83 picks in his Core portfolio and 10 picks in the Venture one.
That’s quite a bit – 93 total.
Videos
These videos provide market updates, emergency & special briefings, and any other investment-related information that Luke finds valuable enough to make a video about I suppose.
The videos are published rather sporadically as well with no set release schedule. But you can probably expect one each month on average.
Member Resources
Nothing too special here, but for new members I can see how this would be helpful.
In this area, there are things like a welcome video, a guide to investing in stocks, a guide on “How to Build a Crisis-Proof, Inflation-Proof Portfolio”, some user account info, etc.
Not much to say here.
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How well do his picks actually perform? (Track Record)
We’ve all seen the hyped-up teasers that get you excited to strike it filthy rich and leave you dreaming of that big house you’ve been eyeing.
But let’s get to the meat of this review – the track record.
The point of joining these investment newsletter services is to actually make money, right?
So, if you were to whip out $499 and join this service for a year, how good would his recommendations be?
Well, let’s take a look, starting with his Core portfolio recommendations and how they’ve fared up until now.
Core Portfolio Performance:
Remember, this portfolio is the one focused on mid-risk, mid-reward investments. It consists of (at the moment) 81 stocks and 2 crypto picks (83 total).
If we do the math to figure out the average return for Lango’s recommendations here we come up with a whopping 531.41%!
Now… that’s a lot… but don’t get too excited just yet.
If we add up the percent return of all 83 picks we get 44,107.20%.
Divide that by the 83 picks and we get that 531.41% average.
HOWEVER, this number is greatly inflated due to some big outliers – goldmine picks that really skyrocketed.
His top 2 picks here brought in:
- 35,384.66%
- 2,356.41%
And that top pick there is a cryptocurrency (2 out of the 83 picks are cryptos).
Of course, I can’t tell you what these 2 picks are, but I can say that there’s no doubt you and your grandmother have heard of both of them by now.
Anyways, the point is that these two have performed incredibly well, but don’t represent the norm.
If we remove the top 2 picks and do the math again, we get an average return of 78.59%.
44,107.20% minus 35,384.66% (top performer) minus 2,356.41% (second best) = 6,366.13%
Take that number and divide it by 81 picks (83 minus 2) and you get 78.59%.
Quite the difference here.
And if we were to remove the 3rd best performer we end up with a 70.04% average.
So, let’s be honest here. A 70% return on average is pretty decent, especially considering the average holding time so far is just over 1.5 years (not exact!).
Nothing spectacular, but still pretty darn good.
Now, that overall 531.41% return overall. That is spectacular.
But we’re not done yet. We still have to take a look at the Venture portfolio.
Venture Portfolio Performance:
Remember, this one is focused on high-risk investments but also high-rewards.
This consists of 10 stocks.
Crunching the numbers we get:
91.85% (averages added together) / 10 stock picks = 9.19% average return… seems like the ‘high-risk’ part of this portfolio is better reflected in the current average return.
Now that’s just plain disappointing – a ~2-year average holding time here.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE:
What does the overall performance look like if we take all of Lango’s picks from both portfolios here at Innovation Investor?
If we take the overall average we come up with a 475.26% average.
If we remove those top 2 performers from the list again we get a 69.44% average.
Take these numbers as you want.
While the overall performance is great, you can’t really expect these types of returns. Out of the 93 picks total it’s mainly 2 top picks that prop that percentage up.
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Pros v Cons
Pros
- Easy to follow
- Lots of information, market updates, etc.
- Good overall returns
Cons
- Investment strategy focused on getting lucky with some big winners
- Over-hyped teasers make things seem more sure than they are
- The refund policy is BS (I’ll explain)
Conclusion – Worth buying into?
Is investing in ‘hot’ new tech stocks something that excites you?
If yes, then maybe this is the kind of investment newsletter that could be a good fit for you.
Lango does have a decent track record with his picks from what I can see. But, you’ve been warned already… that return average is highly misleading due to his top 2 picks.
ALSO, before you fork over $499 to Investorplace for this service, you should know that they DO NOT OFFER MONEY-BACK REFUNDS.
I read a few other reviews for this service out there stating that they offer a 60-day money-back guarantee, but from what I’m seeing right now this is no longer true.
From the website…
So there you have it… you have 30 days to decide if you like it or not. If you don’t, you can ONLY get a credit, NOT your money back.
What this means is that Investorplace will give you a $499 credit to use towards any other of their services. That’s it.
This is a big red flag for me.
I really don’t like this kind of policy.
It’s really no more difficult for them to just refund an unhappy customer their darn money back, but they won’t do that.
Besides this red flag, let’s not forget the hyped-up teasers that they use to lure in new subscribers.
Join if you want, but if this isn’t your cup of tea then I highly suggest taking a look at my #1 recommended stock-picking service.
My #1 recommended stock-picking service
The funny thing is, this is pretty much the complete opposite of Lango’s Innovation Investor.
Instead of looking for the next hottest tech stock, Insider Newsletter (the name of my recommendation) looks for out-of-favor, boring stocks that have usually been undervalued for years, yet are still vital for the functioning of society.
This way, they mitigate risk while still looking for big rewards.
Generally speaking, they look for 3X+ returns on their stock picks, but even a 20Xer isn’t something unheard of.
So, while these stocks might not be the sexiest. There’s nothing unsexy about a pick going up 3X+.
Not only that, but the guys running Insider Newsletter also don’t hype the heck out of their service. They spend their time and money actually providing the best service possible, not marketing it to no end.
My recommendation: check out Insider Newsletter before you think about joining Lango’s Innovation Investor.
As always, I hope this review has provided you with some real value. Let me know what you think about all of this below 🙂
