Market Masters

Market Masters is the definitive book on investing in the Canadian market, featuring exclusive and insightful conversations and first-hand advice from Canada’s top investors. These interviews delve into each investor’s investment philosophies, strategies, and processes, as well as their successes, challenges, and outlooks in the market. Learn proven investing strategies, processes, and approaches that you can easily apply to the market to make your winnings more plentiful, predictable, and profitable. The 28 top investors span multiple areas on the market paradigm to offer readers a variety of perspectives, including: five investing styles; proven, actionable, and timeless strategies to increase your winnings in the market; stocks, bonds, options, and other financial instruments; and shared conceptions that explain how the Market Masters continually beat the market. Through a collection of Master Keys, the most important tips from each investor are highlighted throughout the book, and Speziale describes the Millionaire Mastery Goal: how to parlay $10,000 to over $1,000,000 in 20 years, using the Master Portfolio. Market Masters contains timeless advice on how to beat the market that will entertain, inform, and empower generations of Canadian investors. Includes interviews with Jason Donville, Francis Chou, Benj Gallander, Martin Braun, Bill Ackman, and many more.

Twenty leading money minds reveal how to prosper in today's volatile markets What strategies have made Wall Street's top investors so successful? What are their biggest mistakes and proudest accomplishments? How do they invest their own money? And what are the keys to finding the best stocks and bonds? This enlightening book features one-on-one interviews with 20 of the world's leading mutual fund managers representing a variety of different styles-from growth gurus, value masters, bond wizards, and international globetrotters to specialists in such market sectors as technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate. All have demonstrated track records that consistently outperform the competition. These managers speak frankly about their strategies for beating the market in good times and bad, along with their predictions for the future and exclusive lists of favorite investments for the coming years. Kirk Kazanjian (Mountain View, CA) is an experienced investment and personal finance author. He has written more than 20 books, including Wizards of Wall Street and Value Investing with the Masters. Kazanjian is a former award-winning television news anchor and business reporter whose stories appeared on CNN and ABC stations across the country. In addition to running his own investment company, he was an executive at several leading financial firms, including American Century Investments. He is regularly interviewed by CNBC, CNNfn, and Bloomberg, and has been featured in numerous business and investment publications.

Conversations with Marketing Masters offers new insights by gathering the collected wisdom of the most influential marketing thinkers of our age, each of whom has given a structured interview. Covering a wide range of issues and illustrating concepts with cases of success and failure, these seminal dialogues offer a rare look at what made each master great – and a glimpse of the marketing future. The Marketing Masters featured are Philip Kotler, David Aaker, Jean-Claude Larreche, Regis McKenna, Don Peppers, John Quelch, Al Ries, Martha Rogers, Don Schultz, Patricia Seybold, Jack Trout and Lester Wunderman. The conversations are free-flowing dialogues in which each personality is allowed to shine through.

Drawing from real examples of companies who are practicing creative marketing as well as her experience working with small and enterprise level businesses and nonprofit organizations improve their marketing strategy. Connie provides a revolutionary system for serving, not sales to transform the relationship between companies and customers. When looking to convert consumers in today’s tough business environment Connie’s system can help you immediately implement your creative marketing system by using the tools provided in this book. Today’s marketplace continues to be ravaged by changes---to convert relationships to partnerships, consumers to customers, and ideas into realities you need to think differently. No matter what business you are in, the information in this book will help experts creatively engage and unlock hidden opportunities.

Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor compare banking systems in the U.S. and UK to those of Canada and Australia and explain why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Canadian and Australian banks were able to make profits through traditional lending practices, unlike their competition-driven, risk-taking U.S. and UK counterparts.

What does it take to succeed? What do winners have in common? How can their experiences help you succeed? According to Jake Bernstein, great traders are created, not born. Those who lack discipline, persistence and self-confidence lose the never-ending challenge of trading profits. But those who survive the battle by using the tools of the masters enjoy the fruits of consistent success. Here is an opportunity to learn from some of the best-known international traders ever: George Angell, day-trader, technical analyst par excellence; Gerald Appel, father of MACD, one of the most widely followed timing tools; Bruce Babcock, developer of trading software and publisher of Commodity Traders Consumer Report , the industry watchdog; George Lane, father of stochastics and one of the most experienced technical analysts in the world; Robert Prechter, the pre-eminent Elliott Wave analyst whose forecasts are followed by traders throughout the world; Welles Wilder, the man behind Delta and RSI and developer of technical tools that have revolutionized the trading world.; Larry Williams, colorful, controversial, a legend in his own time.