Authors
- Richard Davidson
- Alexander Elder
Publication date: 2000-04-01
Dewey code: 332.645
RRP: £13.50
Price: £7.48
Review Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management (Wiley Audio): Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management (Wiley Audio) / Penton Overseas Inc:
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 332.6322
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.01
Review The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers / Simon & Schuster:For the past few years, the U. S. stock market has been on a bull run the likes of which few have ever seen, making and breaking records almost every quarter. And since 1998, David and Tom Gardner's self-described market-crushing stock portfolios have made the market's own incredible performance pale by comparison. The brothers, co-authors of the Motley Fool UK Investment Guide, reveal the methodology behind their stock-picking success in The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers. The Rule Breaker Portfolio (formerly known as the Fool Portfolio on their Web site) has risen some 650 percent since its inception in 1994, thanks to stocks such as America Online, McAfee, and Wal-Mart, while the Rule Maker Portfolio (formerly known as the Cash King Portfolio) has risen 440 percent on the backs of investments in Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and Intel. Fans of the Motley Fool, who with luck have prospered from the Gardners' timely advice, will no doubt love Rule Breakers, Rule Makers. The book is written in their usual humorous and self-congratulatory style-not only educational, but often aimed at making the pros on Wall Street wince, as they should. However, if you're new to the Motley Fool or to stock picking in general, you may do well by first considering one of their earlier books, You Have More Than You Think and The Motley Fool Investment Guide. -Harry C. [+]Edwards, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2003-12-05
Dewey code: 332.6
RRP: £33.99
Price: £25.52
Review Portfolio Management in Practice (Essential Capital Markets) / Butterworth-Heinemann:
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Dewey code: 332.6
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.74
Review Book of Investing Wisdom: Classic Writings by Great Stock-Pickers and Legends of Wall Street (Wiley Audio) [CASSETTE]:Don't learn from your own mistakes. Learn from the mistakes of others. That is the underlying message of The Book of Investing Wisdom. In fact it goes much further than that. It encapsulates trading experiences and investment wisdom that only come from years of experience at "the coal-face". And it is all written in the words of the greats. The wisdom of others is a great way to boost your own skills. Books like New Market Wizards, Market Wizards and Mind of a Trader all speak from the mouths of the person with the experience-that is the purest form of trading education short of living it yourself (impossible) or shadowing the giants (impossible). Far too many traders and investors neglect books such as this one when in fact the insights here are far more valuable than any text book or probably any other category of trading or investment book. The Book of Investing Wisdom is an excellent read, avoiding superficial cataloguing of investment writings by geniuses and covering all the right topics. [+]It includes snippets of excellent, profound, unusual and non-prevalent advice. It avoids the trap of re-stating the most obvious investment principles and covers all of the famous investors and traders-Warren Buffett, Jim Rogers, Peter Lynch, Dow, Templeton, Merrill, Getty, Soros, Graham-but also lesser known giants such as Hamilton who covers the Dow Theory, Bernhard on the Valuation of stocks and Clews on the Study of the stock market. The book is arranged into distinct sections, each one essential reading for any trader. The part dealing with market cycles and "Crash and Learn" was interesting in a more general background fashion, as was part V-"Views from the Inside". The last three parts were perhaps less directly relevant to investment wisdom and fascinating for different reasons. It could have done with more analysis by the editor to draw out and expand points raised by the writers and he has also shied away from including numerous excerpts from the same investor, opting instead for one piece from each. Oh, and what is Donald Trump doing in here? If The Book of Investing Wisdom retailed for the value it provides, few would be able to afford it. -Alpesh Patel.
Creator: Author
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1996-05-06
Price: £12.98
Review Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (Short Stirrup Club) / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2001-08-16
Dewey code: 332.63
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.45
Review Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in That the Poor Do Not! (Rich Dad's (Audio)) / Little, Brown & Company:The rich are different from the rest of us. That's why 90 percent of all corporate shares are owned by 10 percent of the people. Kiyosaki believes it's possible for anyone to move up into that 10 percent, but it takes a different view of investing than most people have: it takes a plan to be a successful investor. And a plan is more than simply buying and selling, or collecting "assets" that bring in no cash and are thus more akin to liabilities. The way most people invest, "they might as well be pushing a wheelbarrow in a circle," he writes. A plan is "mechanical, automatic, and boring," a formula for success that has worked historically for most of those who've used it. Kiyosaki's "rich dad" (actually, the father of his best friend) tells him the simplest analogy is the game Monopoly: buy four green houses, trade them for one red hotel, and repeat until you become rich. The overall message of Rich Dad's Guide to Investing is that this is an abundant world, full of opportunity for the sophisticated investor. However, it sometimes takes a while to find this point. Much of the book is told in dialogues between young Kiyosaki and his rich dad, and these conversations can ramble. [+]There are rewards for the careful reader-for example, in the middle of a section on the basic rules of investing, Kiyosaki's rich dad compares investor education to toilet training: difficult at first but eventually automatic. But getting to these inspired metaphors means wading through a lot of repetitive dialogue. It's a bit ironic that someone who advocates investor discipline should show so little as a writer. But by the end of the book, even the rambling starts to make sense. By the hundredth time you read that the rich don't work for money and that you don't need money to make money, both concepts start to make sense. It still looks difficult to apply these ideas, but Rich Dad's Guide to Investing certainly makes the case that they'll work for anyone bold and smart enough to practice them. -Lou Schuler, Amazon. com.
Authors
- Grover Gardner
- John C. Bogle
Publication date: 2000-04-01
Dewey code: 332.6327
RRP: £13.50
Price: £6.96
Review Commonsense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor (Wiley Audio) / Penton Overseas Inc:Invoking the words and spirit of Thomas Paine, investor-turned-historian John Bogle concedes that ideas for revamping the mutual-fund industry are perhaps "not yet sufficiently fashionable to them general favor. " But despite likening the "ills and injustices suffered by mutual fund investors" to those "our forebears suffered under English tyranny," Bogle-founder of the Vanguard Group- makes a strong case for index funds with this exhaustive study of investing. He begins with primer-like essays on investment strategy, championing mutual funds for their inherent investment value, and then grinding each point home with a bevy of graphs, charts, entertaining anecdotes, and common sense. He repeatedly stresses time as a basic tenet for investing, listing these simple rules: "Time is your friend"; "Impulse is your enemy"; "Stay the course. " And then he proceeds to blast fund managers, who have become marketers rather than managers. The trade-off between the profits that accrue to fund shareholders and the profits that accrue to the fund management companies seems subject to no effective independent watchdog or balance wheel, despite the fact that the shareholders actually own the mutual funds. It's an interesting concept: smart, reasoned investors can all but secure their financial future, but the system itself, run unchecked by fund managers, needs a major overhaul. And considering the amount of reasoned, historically based support he includes, readers will have a hard time finding fault with the sometimes controversial Bogle. In equal parts instructional and crusade, Common Sense on Mutual Funds deserves the attention it's likely to receive. Recommended. [+]-Rob McDonald, Amazon. com.
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Dewey code: 332.6322
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.74
Review Getting Started in Stocks (Wiley Audio) [CASSETTE]:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04-26
Dewey code: 330
RRP: £13.99
Price: £13.99
Review Managing Investment: 25 Keys to Profitable Capital Investment (Pocket MBA) / Listen & Live Audio:
Authors
- John Rothchild
- Peter Lynch
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1993-06-01
Dewey code: 332.6322
RRP: £10.99
Price: £17.50
Review Beating the Street / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Authors
- David Gardner
- Thomas Gardner
Dewey code: 332.6
RRP: £8.74
Price: £3.72
Review The Motley Fool Investment Guide / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-09-30
Dewey code: 332.6
RRP: £13.50
Price: £10.74
Review Where the Money Is: Supercharched Growth Opportunities for the 2000s (Wiley Audio): Supercharched Growth Opportunities for the 2000s (Wiley Audio) / Penton Overseas Inc:
Authors
- George Guidall
- Philip A. Fisher
Publication date: 2000-04-01
Dewey code: 332.63223
RRP: £13.50
Price: £20.13
Review Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (Wiley Audio) / Penton Overseas Inc:
Authors
- Brian Eales
- Moorad Choudhry
Publication date: 2003-03-24
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £58.99
Price: £58.99
Review Derivative Instruments: A Guide to Theory and Practice (Quantitative Finance) / Butterworth-Heinemann:
Creator: Richard Beebe
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 332.678
Price: £14.18
Review The Dean Witter Guide to Personal Investing / Soundelux Audio Publishing:
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2000-12-22
Dewey code: 332.024
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.20
Review Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Rich Dad) / Little, Brown & Company:Personal finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated, but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book is nonetheless a compelling advocate for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how the former might be acquired so that the latter eventually can be shed. -Howard Rothman, Amazon. com.
Authors
- Sharon L. Lechter
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
Publication date: 2002-11-07
Dewey code: 332.024
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.05
Review Rich Dad's Prophecy (Rich Dad's (Audio)) / Little, Brown & Company:
Publication date: 1992
Review Taking Control of Your Work Day / Career Track Publications:This 4 tape audio programme helps you learn to overcome the distractions that can sabotage your best intentions. Learn how to prioritise tasks quickly, overcome procrastination together with communication skills that build links with co-workers so your work flows more smoothly. Result? You'll spend more of your time focusing on quality rather than struggling to keep up and you'll have more time for yourself at the end of the day - plus the energy to enjoy it.
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