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Rebecca Osborne
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| 01/20/2007 12:24 AM |
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When I first became interested in investing in the market, I read Peter Lynch's "Beating the Street." It inspired me; I knew I could be a successful individual investor.
Am currently reading Janet Lowe's "Benjamin Graham on Value Investing: Lessons from the Dean of Wall Street." Her insight into how life shaped Graham's views on investing is interesting. Though I haven't yet resolved his high level of integrity with his womanizing personality  but who knows, I haven't finished the book yet.
What about you? Which books have shaped your views on investing? |
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Rajiv Roy
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| 01/21/2007 11:49 PM |
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I read Sylvia Porters' book on Personal Finance - way too many years ago then I care to admit. That really opened my eyes to looking at every aspect of the overall perfonal finance health. Investing was just one of the elements.
Then I remember taking a course in Finance - Portfolio Theory and I that put investing in a mathematical context which as an engineer I was more comfortable with. It helped in that I understood Markowitz's Asset Allocation in Managing Your Money software but was not terribly sensible and common sensical to calculate the "efficient frontier" of every portfolio I wanted to construct. Sorry I do not remember the course book.
And finally I read the "bible" - Benjamin Graham's Security Analysis and that put the whole invesment theory in a more practical style.
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Rajiv
www.stockfundas.com
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Carol Clemens
Edmond, Oklahoma
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| 01/29/2007 11:27 AM |
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Rebecca--
I think the most influential book was Ellis Traub's Take Stock. Once I understand his technamentals approach, I began to make progress in my NAIC investing. Then I started to read more widely. I also think that the books put out by Better Investing on Stock Analysis, Personal Investing, Portfolio Management and Mutual funds are worth every penny I paid. Mine are underlined and well-used. I often pick up a used copy on half.com of something mentioned on a site, but I keep coming back to these tried and trues of fundamental investing.
Carol Clemens
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Richard Yurick
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| 02/13/2007 11:08 AM |
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After twenty years of investing, I am reading my first book: The Four Pillars of Investing by Wm. Bernstein. According to Angele M. its a good book and I agree. Bernstein is often mentioned in J. Clements Getting Going column in WSJ on Wednesdays. That's also a very good source on sound financial advise.
The Bernstein book has chapters on investment psychology and also takes the media to task for all the fluff that they put out. There is also a large conflict of interest between the media and the mutual fund industry. I think he's right about all that.
Not so good: Sound Money - radio show.
They're doing a series on investment clubs which is almost totally useless. It's all fluff and no meat. This program used to be much better but they are trying to appeal to a younger audience, which is a good idea. I guess I just know too much to get anything out of this program. But Chris Farrel is still a straight shooter.
Rick Yurick
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Irina Clements
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| 02/14/2007 6:39 PM |
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| I know the question was ... what book, but what really got me going was the Motley Fool [back when it was free]... the community was a friendly one and I lurked and learned and am still there ... joined NAIC because of it [mostly good there] and learned lots of good stuff... where I am now it reading a variety of investment info, from biography of Warren Buffet... to old reliables such as many Lynch books, to ... well you get the idea Irina |
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Peter Upton
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| 02/15/2007 10:33 PM |
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The first book which I found very valuable is the Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$ by Nancy Dunnan. This book used to be updated every year. I haven't looked for it lately, but I assume there is still a version available. This book provided a very broad background.on all types of assets, risk, financial planning, taxes, etc. It is a wonderful overview providing an introduction to a myriad of subjects.
The second book which I have found very valuable is The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein. Bernstein also has a web site which might be of interest. He used to post a regular periodical, now just occasional discussions, but still worth checking out: http://www.efficientfrontier.com/.
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Dave Adams
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| 02/21/2007 9:56 AM |
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| I myself am waiting on "Beating the Street" and "Take Stock" to be delivered any day now. Found them on Half.com about a week ago. To date, the best investment books I have read so far have been "You have more than you Think" and "Rule Makers and Rule Breakers", both of which are put out byThe Motley Fool brothers. I sometimes need the bit of wit to keep me interested. |
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