Dean LeBaron's Treasury of Investment Wisdom: 30 Great Investing Minds [Paperback]

Dean LeBaron (Author), Romesh Vaitilingam (Author)

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Publication Date: December 21, 2001

Dean LeBaron's Treasury of Investment Wisdom

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.

"There have been other books on investment gurus, but none as complete nor as entertaining as this one. Dean LeBaron has produced an enlightening, thorough, and thought-provoking compendium of the thinking of many of the nation's investment professionals. It covers all the major investment styles and vehicles, from active portfolio management to venture capital, and offers theoretical insights into everything from behavioral finance to market efficiency, providing point and counterpoint. It's a must read."
-Michael J. Clowes, editorial director, Pensions & Investments and Investment News and author of The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing

Filled with commentaries and opinions on a wide range of must-know investment issues, 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.

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Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom

Innovative investment opportunities and ideas are constantly emerging–from developments in foreign exchange markets to the boom and bust of Internet investing. With the current overload of information offering analysis, advice, and guaranteed success, how can you, the individual investor, obtain only the best and most profitable ideas? The answer is simple: read Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom.

Financial legend Dean LeBaron and bestselling investment writer Romesh Vaitilingam have created a comprehensive investment guide filled with the ideas and people who have brought us to today’s market understanding–and shaped the market’s future. Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom offers you valuable insights on thirty of the most important investment areas, all of which will boost your portfolio’s performance. This authoritative resource covers everything you need to understand today’s unpredictable and complex investment landscape–from basic investment concepts to technical analysis and performance measurement.

Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom shares the ideas and advice of investment luminaries who are second to none in their particular areas of expertise. You’ll hear from:

• William Miller on active portfolio management
• John Bogle on mutual funds
• Peter Bernstein on economic forecasting
• George Soros on hedge funds
• Gary Brinson on global investing
• Peter Lynch on growth investing

. . . and many other renowned investment experts.

By learning how the top investment gurus think and understanding their outlook for the future, you can start investing with renewed confidence today.

This unique guide also discusses ten additional key investment issues and ten key global issues that are of growing concern to those making important investment decisions. It also provides a "webliography" that consists of a list of recommended investment Web sites for further study and reading.

Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom is your one-stop reference for the major ideas of modern investment and the people who know how to use them best. See how the ideas and personalities of these experts are interconnected, and match your investment style with theirs to create a winning portfolio. Use their knowledge and advice, and start investing the right way. This is your chance to finally take your investments to the top.

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Dean LeBaron’s Treasury of Investment Wisdom

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.

"There have been other books on investment gurus, but none as complete nor as entertaining as this one. Dean LeBaron has produced an enlightening, thorough, and thought-provoking compendium of the thinking of many of the nation’s investment professionals. It covers all the major investment styles and vehicles, from active portfolio management to venture capital, and offers theoretical insights into everything from behavioral finance to market efficiency, providing point and counterpoint. It’s a must read."
–Michael J. Clowes, editorial director, Pensions & Investments and Investment News and author of The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing

Filled with commentaries and opinions on a wide range of must-know investment issues, 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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471152943
• ISBN-13: 978-0471152941
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,436,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An extremely helpful introduction to a wide range of topics, December 25, 2001

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This review is from: Dean LeBaron's Treasury of Investment Wisdom: 30 Great Investing Minds (Paperback)

The book covers thirty general categories, styles or concepts in investing and then uses the following technique; first, Mr. LeBaron will introduce the subject, displaying a high level of knowledge that he has acquired through his 30+ year investing career (along with Romesh Vaitlingam). Then he introduces a guru for the particular topic, such as Warren Buffett for value investing. Then as "Counterpoint", he mentions weaknesses of the concept or technique. Most entertaining is "Guru Response", where the aforementioned guru gets to attack his critics; and finally a wrap-up called "Where Next", where Dean summarizes the topic and perhaps sometimes gets in a few digs at gurus he disagrees with.

I did get the sense that Dean is on a first-name basis with all of these gurus, and it undoubtedly helped in creating a book of this type. The chapters are brief and do not need to be read sequentially, just pick the topic you are interested and run with it. Particularly helpful are the references at the end of each chapter which suggest further reading. Somewhat amusing, however, is the procedure of listing a book multiple times if it relates to multiple topics - at times the references seemed like an advertisement for Bernstein's "Capital Ideas".

Readers will learn enough to get started on a topic and perhaps for an engaging cocktail-party conversation, but to really understand something they of course will need to move on to the references, and I think that is the book's intention.

Partisans may feel that he did not cover their favored topic well enough, such as "short selling" or "technical analysis". I myself felt that the chapter on Value Investing seemed weak. Although Buffett may be the most famous current proponent of value investing, I think he may have spent too much time defending his own particular flavor of value investing, and that to get a better introduction to the topic they might have used an additional guru or two (I suppose Benjamin Graham doesn't qualify because he is dead and couldn't have written a "Guru Response" section - pity.).

Also, the topics are skewed towards big-concept, guru-think type categories such as "international money" which I suppose are entirely justified but seem more weighted towards what people are thinking about at annual retreats at Davos, Switzerland than what a middle-of-the-road investor worries about. I would like to have seen a chapter on Small Cap Stocks, perhaps with Ralph Wanger as a guru, or on a practical topic like how to avoid getting ripped off by an unscrupulous broker.

This book gave me inspirations for the next ten books I'd like to read.