Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom: Thirty Great Investing Minds

Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom is your guide to a profitable investing future. Take your investment knowledge to the next level with one-of-a-kind insights that have made the best investors in the world what they are today. Today, investors are faced with an information overload when it comes to investment opportunities. It’s hard to find straight answers on which investment vehicles are the best, which ones will last, and what opportunities truly suit your needs. Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom easily answers all these questions for you. This comprehensive guide to the world’s greatest investment ideas and thinkers gives you everything you need to understand today’s complex and exciting investment landscape.

Introduction:

In our discussion of investment ideas, we talk equally about people because it is the people who have the ideas. The best investment ideas, in our opinion, are consistent with the psyche of the people who have them. The cliché “managers do not pick markets, markets pick managers” refers to the possibility that it is the style of the day that plucks some investors for greatness rather than the other way around. The managers who succeed are most often confident of their views to the limits of arrogance, hate to see their ideas diluted in the interest of diversification (unless diversification was their idea), and are eager to display their market wit. Mostly they are colorful characters, most known and liked by at least one of us.

In each chapter we describe an idea. Then we talk about one or two people associated with the idea. We also introduce the counterpoint: the downside and limitations of the idea. And we have asked each person discussed (where, as in most cases, they are still around) to react and comment if they wish: Many of our gurus have kindly taken up the challenge. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for the next steps, if any—ideas for application and research—and recommendations for further reading whether in print or online.

In addition to our main chapters, we have two introductory pieces: one by Peter Bernstein on the history of the markets over the past fifty years, which he has kindly allowed us to reprint; and another by Dean on changing investment styles across time and space. We have also included a discussion of ten key issues related to the world of investing plus ten broader, more global questions, and a selection of ten investment classics by James Fraser. In addition, there is a webliography, a list of recommended investment websites for further study and sometimes fun reading.

Contents:

• Investment Policy
• Economic Forecasting
• Risk Management
• Financial Engineering
• Active Portfolio Management
• Growth Investing
• Value Investing
• Technical Analysis
• Quantitative Investing
• Foreign Exchange
• Market Efficiency
• Mutual Funds
• Indexing
• Fixed Income
• Short Selling
• Hedge Funds
• Contrarian Investing
• Global Investing
• Emerging Markets
• Venture Capital
• Investor Psychology
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes
• Internet Investing
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Restructuring
• Initial Public Offerings
• International Money
• Politics and Investing
• Investment Consultants
• Performance Measurement

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