Jonathan Burton
Investment Titans
Investment Insights from the Minds that Move Wall Street
McGraw-Hill, 2001
What's inside?
Investment points from the giants of Wall Street: insightful, innovative and sometimes contradictory.
Recommendation
Jonathan Burton relays the advice of nine top investors - Harry Markowitz, Paul Samuelson, Jeremy Siegel, John C. Bogle, Joseph Lakonishok, Richard Thaler, Gary Brinston, Peter Bernstein and William Sharpe. The author focuses on different aspects of investing - stock-market risk and reward, indexing, value versus growth investing, investor psychology, international investor strategies and risk tolerance. Burton concludes Investment Titans with observations about common themes - diversifying, investing now and staying invested. This solid book avoids repetition by focusing on different investment issues for different investors.
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About the Author
Jonathan Burton is a prolific and well-known financial journalist. Investment Titans grew from his "Leaders in Finance" series, which he wrote for Asset Management. He co-authored the best-selling Electronic Day Traders’ Secrets and has contributed to to The New York Times, Bloomberg Personal Finance, The Economis and The Christian Science Monitor.
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