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.

Profiles of 150 successful fund managers, traders, analysts, economists, and investment experts offer advice, techniques, and ideas to increase returns and control risks in investing. Some of the areas of specialty discussed include international markets and capital flows, company valuation, liquidi

"Beyond Wall Street" gibt es jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe. Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über Investitionsformen, die von den prominentesten Vertretern der Finanzwelt genutzt werden. Es porträtiert die Superstars im Anlagengeschäft mit ihren Erfolgsgeschichten und Strategietipps. In keinem anderen Buch wird ein so breites Spektrum von Investoren präsentiert, die versuchen, mit ihrem Wissen und ihrer Erfahrung dem Durchschnittsanleger die Zusammenhänge nachvollziehbar und verständlich zu vermitteln. Zu den Top-Investoren, die hier zu Wort kommen, gehören u.a. Gary Brinson (Global Investing), John Neff (Offene Investmentfonds), William Sharpe (Kapitalmärkte), Mark Mobius (Emerging Markets) und Barr Rosenberg (Risiko). Der Erfolg dieser lebenden Legenden basiert auf den hier behandelten Grundprinzipien, die sich jeder zunutze machen kann. (12/99)

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.

"A major contribution . . . on the behavior of common stocks in the United States." --Financial Analysts' Journal The consistently bestselling What Works on Wall Street explores the investment strategies that have provided the best returns over the past 50 years--and which are the top performers today. The third edition of this BusinessWeek and New York Times bestseller contains more than 50 percent new material and is designed to help you reshape your investment strategies for both the postbubble market and the dramatically changed political landscape. Packed with all-new charts, data, tables, and analyses, this updated classic allows you to directly compare popular stockpicking strategies and their results--creating a more comprehensive understanding of the intricate and often confusing investment process. Providing fresh insights into time-tested strategies, it examines: Value versus growth strategies P/E ratios versus price-to-sales Small-cap investing, seasonality, and more