Showing posts with label value investing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value investing. Show all posts

The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules: Collected Wisdom from the World's Top 150 Investors Review

The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules: Collected Wisdom from the World's Top 150 Investors
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
"The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules" is like going to a cocktail party with 150 prominent investment authors and analysts and pumping them for information. We get to hear from Bob Prechter, Marc Faber (a/k/a "Dr. Doom"), Paul Wilmott, and many others. The multiplicity of approaches is excellent: some of the subjects are stock investors, others concentrate on commodities; some use technical analysis, others are fundamentalists. Dr. Faber's one point of advice is one of the best that I have ever read in a financial book: he suggests that consumption of wealth is always an option--buy a good book, go out to dinner with family and friends. It is a shame that such a wonderful book is already out of print, but luckily you can buy a used copy very cheap. It's a bargain!

Click Here to see more reviews about: The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules: Collected Wisdom from the World's Top 150 Investors

For the first time, the tactics, strategies and insights relied on by 150 of the world's most respected financial experts are revealed in a concise, digestible form. Learn how you really make money in the markets from: fund managers of billion-pound equity funds; traders in the options and futures markets; industry-rated analysts; economists from top business schools; and, writers on leading financial newspapers. Each provides focused and practical rules on how to succeed in the market. Often counter-intuitive, their rules tell you exactly what to do and what not to do. No padding; just a rock-hard list of do's and don'ts. The contributors to this book are the elite of investing. They consistently beat the market because they know which shares to buy, at what price, and when. And, just as importantly, they know when to sell. Never before has so much quality advice been packed into a single book. If you want to increase your wealth through investing, this is an unmissable opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills from the best in the world.

Buy NowGet 24% OFF

Click here for more information about The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules: Collected Wisdom from the World's Top 150 Investors

Read More...

Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets from a Former Banking Insider (Agora Series) Review

Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets from a Former Banking Insider (Agora Series)
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
When I started this book, I was looking forward to seeing a somewhat contrarian approach to investing; something a little different from the Cramers, Fishers, Buffetts, etc. out there. And Mayer promises as much.
For the first part of the book, Mayer lives up to his promise, clearly contrasting a dealmakers' approach to investing and analyzing a potential purchase and contrasting it to that of the average investor. He makes a few excellent points, such as how a stock price only tells a fraction of the story, looking at whether a company has tangible vs. intangible assets, etc.
After the first few chapters, the author starts to meander. The rest of the book is a hodgepodge of advice gleaned from various greats, such as Joel Greenblatt and Marty Whitman. In one case, Mayer greatly disappoints when he starts discussing one of Greenblatt's theories, leaves a lot of open questions, and tells us to read Greenblatt's book for the rest. Was Mayer paid to plug Greenblatt's book?
As one who has graduated from the CNBC soundbyte approach to investing and was looking for something more substantive, I found the book to be a good starting point in throwing out some ideas and adding a bunch of books to my reading list. But otherwise, I don't see who the audience is: the book is too advanced for the novice investor, and the advanced investor who's read the classics won't find much new here, especially after the first couple of chapters.
Overall, the book has some redeeming value, but I didn't find it to live up to its promise.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets from a Former Banking Insider (Agora Series)

Invest Like a Dealmaker outlines an approach to investing that is far removed from what most investors have been conditioned to believe, but which has produced consistent profits for its practitioners decade after decade. While the concepts covered are not well known by the average investor, they are well appreciated by Wall Street insiders and dealmakers—particularly those who think about stocks as whole companies, as things with real assets, and cash flows that exist in the real world.

Buy NowGet 23% OFF

Click here for more information about Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets from a Former Banking Insider (Agora Series)

Read More...

Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor Review

Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
If you are interested in reading about Buffett and his investment approach, this book is useless. This is a very short collection of quotes, most of which you will run into anyway.
If interested in Buffett as an investor, one good book is The Essays of Warren Buffett. If you want to save money even on this one, without missing out on the content, just download the letters to shareholders Buffett has written over the years and posted on Berkshire Hathaway's website, for free of course.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor



Buy NowGet 38% OFF

Click here for more information about Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor

Read More...