Reese / Forehand The Guru Investor

How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-44677-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Today's investor is faced with a myriad of investment options andstrategies. Whether you are seeking someone to manage your money orare a self-directed investor deciding to tackle the market on yourown, the options can be overwhelming.
In an easy-to-read and simple format, this book will dissect thestrategies of some of Wall Street's most successful investmentgurus and teach readers how to weed through the all of the choicesto find a strategy that works for them. The model portfolio systemthat author John Reese developed turns each strategy into anactionable system, addressing many of the common mistakes that doomindividual investors to market underperformance. This book willfocus on the principles behind the author's multi-guru approach,showing how investors can combine the proven strategies of theselegendary "gurus" into a disciplined investing system that hassignificantly outperformed the market.
Gurus covered in the book are: Benjamin Graham; John Neff; DavidDreman; Warren Buffett; Peter Lynch; Ken Fisher; Martin Zweig;James O'Shaughnessy; Joel Greenblatt; and Joseph Piotroski.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reese, John P.

Forehand, Jack M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part One: Why You Need this Book.
Chapter 1 Learn from the Worst.
Chapter 2. The Cavalry Arrives.
Part Two: The Value Legends.
Chapter 3: Benjamin Graham: The Granddaddy of the Gurus.
Chapter 4: John Neff: The Investor's Investor.
Chapter 5: David Dreman: The Great Contrarian.
Chapter 6: Warren Buffett: The Greatest Guru.
Part Three: The Growth Legends (With a Value Twist).
Chapter 7: Peter Lynch: The Star "GARP" Manager.
Chapter 8: Kenneth L. Fisher: The Price/Sales Pioneer.
Chapter 9: Martin Zweig: The Conservative Growth Investor.
Part Four: The Pure Quants.
Chapter 10: James O'Shaughnessy: The Quintessential Quant.
Chapter 11: Joel Greenblatt: The Man with the Magic Formula.
Chapter 12: Joseph Piotroski: The Undiscovered Academic.
Part Five: From Theory to Practice.
Chapter 13: Putting It Together: The Principles of GuruInvesting.
Chapter 14: The Missing Piece: Knowing When To Sell.
Conclusion: Time To Take The Wheel.
Appendix A: Performance of Guru-Based 10- and 20-Stock ModelPortfolios.
Appendix B: Guru Yearly Track Record Comparison (Actual orBack-Tested Returns).
References.
About the Authors.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John P. Reese, MBA, is the founder and CEO of Validea.comand Validea Capital Management. He is also portfolio manager forthe Omega American and International Consensus mutual funds offeredin the Canadian market. He is a regular columnist for Forbes.com,RealMoney.com, and Israel's Globes newspaper. He holds twopatents in the area of automated stock analysis and is a graduateof Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.
Jack M. Forehand, CFA, is President of Validea.com andcofounder of Validea Capital Management, LLC. Working inconjunction with John Reese, Forehand led the development ofValidea's investment models as well as the quantitative testingthat led to the creation of Validea Capital Management's consensusportfolios. He graduated from the honors program of the Universityof Connecticut with a BA in economics and is a CFAcharterholder.