Beyond Wall Street (C): The Art of Investing - Hardcover

Mintz; Dakin; Tobias

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ISBN 10: 0471247375 ISBN 13: 9780471247371

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

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Páginas:244Géneros:12:VSB:Personalfinance12:KFF:Finance12:KFFM:Investment&securitiesSinopsis:

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Insight and advice on mastering the art of investing-from some of the biggest names in the business This invaluable volume presents what the experts' experts-Peter Bernstein, Gary Brinson, Foster Friess, John Neff, Barr Rosenberg, Mark Mobius, William Gross,and William Sharpe-have to say about risk, asset allocation, growth investing, index funds, value investing, quantitative analysis, fixed-income securities, and emerging markets. "Essential reading for both novice and expert investors, the profiles in Beyond Wall Street show how the country's most successful investors make money. Read this and learn what it takes to come out on top."-Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek columnist, Author of Making the Most of Your Money "Beyond Wall Street achieves a laudable balance between human drama and sage advice, and the sages involved are some of the finest investors of our time."-Ed Finn, Editor, Barron's "This book serves a delicious blend of the techniques and biographies of some of the greatest professional vestors and financial scholars. Anyone serious about long-term investment success will profit from the indispensable insights of these diverse masters."-Roger A. Segal, Investors' Bookshelf (TheStreet.com) "This book is a wonderful source of knowledge for investors ranging from novice to professional. We can all learn something from today's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners."-Elizabeth J. Mackay, CFA, Chief Investment Strategist, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

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Insight and advice on mastering the art of investing—from some of the biggest names in the business.

"If you somehow missed much or all of Beyond Wall Street, the eight-part PBS documentary, this book is for you. Even if you didn't miss it you might be interested, because the authors have so nicely captured the stories, styles, and wisdom of eight superstar investors." —from the Foreword by Andrew Tobias.

Featuring interviews with eight of the field's most prominent figures, Beyond Wall Street examines investing from the unique perspectives of those who are doing it right. Based on the popular PBS series, this invaluable volume presents what the experts' experts have to say about index funds, value investing, quantitative analysis, fixed-income securities, emerging markets, and investor psychology. The luminaries profiled are: Peter Bernstein, Gary Brinson, Foster Friess, William Gross, Mark Mobius, John Neff, Barr Rosenberg, and William Sharpe.

"Essential reading for both novice and expert investors, the profiles in Beyond Wall Street show how the country's most successful investors make money. Read this and learn what it takes to come out on top." —Jane Bryant Quinn Newsweek columnist author of Making the Most of Your Money.

"Beyond Wall Street achieves a laudable balance between human drama and sage advice, and the sages involved are some of the finest investors of our time." —Ed Finn, Editor, Barron's.

"This book serves a delicious blend of the techniques and biographies of some of the greatest professional investors and financial scholars. Anyone serious about long-term investment success will profit from the indispensable insights of these diverse masters." —Roger A. Segal, Investors' Bookshelf, (The Street.com).

"This book is a wonderful source of knowledge for investors ranging from novice to professional. We can all learn something from today's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners." —Elizabeth J. Mackay, CFA Chief Investment Strategist, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.

Beyond an investment process that involves charts, formulas, and financial analyses lies an art based on imagination and timeless tenets. Beyond Wall Street showcases the masters of the art of investing: those whose success is built upon vision, brilliance, and the classic principles from which anyone can learn. This unprecedented book, based on the popular PBS series, features a gamut of investment styles and subjects, from global investing to mutual funds, emerging markets to index funds, value investing to quantitative analysis, fixed-income securities to investor psychology.

Beyond Wall Street compares and contrasts the strategies of eight of the world's leading investors through substantive and compelling tales of what brought them to their successes. Unique, thoughtful, and often irreverent, these prominent figures reveal, to the expert and novice investor alike, how brilliant investing is a feat of creativity, composition, and conviction.

Foster Friess founded the Brandywine Fund in 1985 and has managed it to a stunning 560.4% return on investment and an annual average of 18.3%. When you buy a stock, "forget what you paid for it and when you bought it. We only want to look at where the stock is going. It doesn't matter where it's been."

Steward for more than 30 years of the hugely successful Windsor Fund, now retired John Neff scored in value investing by buying downtrodden stocks with confidence that the pendulum will swing back for sound companies that have fallen from grace. Neff's kind of company bangs pots and pans in the dim, dusty, and foreboding basement. To Neff, that cacophony sounds like great investments calling for attention.

Bringing a messianic fervor to quantitative analysis, Barr Rosenberg's computer-driven strategies are firmly planted in traditional, fundamental stock analysis. "The idea is to look at companies that are in similar businesses, compare them with one another, and find the ones that are the mos

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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471247375
• ISBN 13: 9780471247371
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244