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Exploring the Essential Features of “Jonathan Burton – Investment Titans: Investment Insights from the Minds that Move Wall Street”
Let the legends of finance be your money managers! Imagine having the opportunity to ask Babe Ruth how to hit, or Charles Lindbergh how to fly. Investment Titans assembles an unprecedented panel of Nobel laureates and great financial thinkers–including Harry Markowitz, Paul Samuelson, John Bogle, and others–to ask: “How can investors make smart decisions that minimize risk and uncertainty and maximize return?” Their answers are thought-provoking, innovative, and certain to provide profitable insights for readers to use in their own investing.
Each contributor’s field of knowledge–hedging risk, defeating psychological negatives, picking stocks, choosing strategies–is featured in its own concise, hands-on chapter. The result is a rare, fascinating look inside the minds and techniques of some of today’s greatest financial thinkers.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Nine of Today’s Greatest Financial Innovators Discuss the Foundations and Strategies of Intelligent Investing
A sampling of the minds and methods in Investment Titans:
“You shouldn’t spend much time on your investments. That will tempt you to pull up the plants and see how the roots are doing, and that’s very bad for the roots.”
ÂÂPaul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate
“You choose your point on the efficient frontier according to your willingness to bear risk. It’s no free lunch.”
ÂÂHarry Markowitz, Nobel Laureate
“If you are looking way into the future, a declining market helps, maybe what we have to do is realize that what we perceive to be pain is actually opportunity.”
ÂÂJeremy Siegel
“The most common mistake investors make is not thinking about everybody else. Look at the Internet Stocks. Everybody thought they alone discovered the Internet.”
ÂÂRichard Thaler
“Individuals ought to concentrate on using the market more than beating it. Focus on questions of asset allocation, diversification, and changes through time.”
ÂÂWilliam Sharpe, Nobel Laureate
“The stock market doesn’t know you’re there, and it’s not going to be considerate. It owes you nothing.”
ÂÂPeter Bernstein
“There’s a time when investors should exit the market. The problem is that we never know when it is.”
ÂÂJohn C. Bogle
“This book offers a concrete and helpful understanding of investment strategies, as seen through the eyes of some of the most profoundly unique thinkers in the investment business.”
ÂÂFrom the Preface
Whether scholars, money managers, or those who straddle both worlds, these individuals didn’t follow the status quo. They dared to ask questions that, when answered, would lay the foundation for modern Wall Street. Investment products and models they either created or influenced, from asset allocation to Portfolio Theory, index mutual funds, and more, came to define the way investors view and approach the financial markets.
But how do these trailblazers see the markets of today and tomorrow? As would be expected, the opinions and attitudes of these veterans arenÂżt swayed much by talk of bulls and bears. Investment Titans provides wisdom based on experience and facts, not trends and earnings reports. For example:
- Paul Samuelson on: The true essence of long-term risk in the stock market
- Harry Markowitz on: Diversification techniques and strategies to lower risk and increase long-term returns
- Josef Lakonishok on: Proven profit opportunities presented by the trading activities of company insidersIn addition, these masters of investing prove they aren’t living in the past. Investment Titans details how to detect undervalued stocks that are poised for a recovery; how adding risk to a portfolio can actually reduce its volatility; websites where you can find the latest investment analysis, along with other valuable information; and more.
Market veterans will tell you: while the playersÂÂand even some of the rulesÂÂin investing change from time to time, the fundamentals remain the same. And when you need to hear the fundamentals, who better to listen to than the experts who understand them best? From Harry Markowitz to John Bogle, the nuggets of advice contained in Investment Titans are certain to provide profitable insights to use in your own investingÂÂand the peace of mind that comes from knowing your advisors are, truly, among today’s most brilliant financial minds.
About the Author
Jonathan Burton is a prolific and respected financial journalist. Investment Titans grew from his Leaders in Finance series, written for Asset Management. A coauthor of the bestselling Electronic Day Traders’ Secrets and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Asset Management, Burton has also written for top publications including The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Far Eastern Economic Review.
Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (November 2, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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