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~ John P. Reese (Author), Jack M. Forehand (Author)
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Today's investor is faced with a myriad of investment options and strategies. Whether you are seeking someone to manage your money or are a self-directed investor deciding to tackle the market on your own, the options can be overwhelming.

In an easy-to-read and simple format, this book will dissect the strategies of some of Wall Street's most successful investment gurus and teach readers how to weed through the all of the choices to find a strategy that works for them. The model portfolio system that author John Reese developed turns each strategy into an actionable system, addressing many of the common mistakes that doom individual investors to market underperformance. This book will focus on the principles behind the author's multi-guru approach, showing how investors can combine the proven strategies of these legendary "gurus" into a disciplined investing system that has significantly outperformed the market.

Gurus covered in the book are: Benjamin Graham; John Neff; David Dreman; Warren Buffett; Peter Lynch; Ken Fisher; Martin Zweig; James O'Shaughnessy; Joel Greenblatt; and Joseph Piotroski.

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Over the past six decades, the U.S. stock market has averaged an annual return of about eleven percent per year. Yet, except for a few renowned Wall Street gurus, the vast majority of investors, both amateur and professional, fail to come anywhere close to those eleven percent average annual gains. Why do most investors fail—and what do those very successful investment gurus have in common? The Guru Investor identifies the stock picking methodologies developed by some of history's best and most successful stock market gurus—including Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Martin Zweig, John Neff, and others—and shows how you can combine these proven strategies into a disciplined investing system that has been proven to outperform the market.

John Reese breaks down the very different approaches of each of the gurus—encompassing value, growth, and quantitative investing—and lays out their philosophy and achievements, detailing step-by-step the secret formulas they used to beat the market, while explaining why these legendary investors consider certain factors to be so important when analyzing individual stocks.

Reese not only discusses the individual gurus, their strategies, and why they are important, but he also explains how to best use these strategies in the real world, showing how to sift through all of the choices to find a strategy that works for you. The model portfolio system that the author has developed turns each strategy into an actionable system, addressing many of the common mistakes that doom investors to failure. In addition to offering these individual guru-based models, Reese also explains how to combine and implement these approaches into a multi-guru system that will provide you with a comprehensive, practical stock investing strategy with a proven track record. He reveals when you should buy, when you should sell, how many stocks you should own, and much more.

All investors can learn from the thinking, writing, and experience of Wall Street's greatest investors. The Guru Investor, and its free companion Web site—www.guruinvestorbook.com—will teach you the lessons of these greats and give you all the tools needed to put those lessons to work in your investment strategy.

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  • Hardcover: 317 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (February 3, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470377097
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470377093
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One stop shop for stock investing strategy and creating investing philosphy by learning from the investing legends, April 10, 2009
John Reese's book "The Guru Investor - How to beat the market using history's best investment strategies" fills the gap in investing books on how a person who doesn't have a stock investing background (and struggles for some time with it) create a strategy to beat the market (and have a chance to beat the market) by learning from those who have beat the market consistently in the past. The book covers important most of the basic financial metrics and also covers value, growth and quants strategy. This book is basic enough and easy to understand. This book can be a one stop shop for investing books if you already know the basic of stock investing, but if you don't know much about stock market or how stock investing works, then this is not the book that you want to read first.

The 6 principles of "Guru Investing" (what I personally called investing philosophy):
1. Combining strategies to minimize risk and maximize returns
2. Stick to the numbers or the market will stick it to you
3. Stay disciplined over the long haul
4. Diversify, but you can't beat the market by owning it
5. Size and style - focused systems only limit investment possibilities
6. You don't have to hold stocks for the long term to be a long term investor

Pros:
1. practical and succinct
2. covers most of the investing legends strategies and their "story" (Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch, David Dreman, Ken Fisher etc)
3. Covers many important financial ratios
4. Covers in depth the topic of "Determining when to sell"
5. Relate to the audience well (as someone who is trying to learn about investing from the investing greats)
6. Includes interesting facts in the fact box (or key learning) for each chapter or for each important topic.
7. Covers the performance of "Guru" based stock model portfolio and yearly track record comparison

Cons:
1. Marketing (cross selling) their other investment service (validea dot com and Validea investing system)
2. Supporting a subjective topic of the drawback of market timing/short term trading (that "one have to be right at least 74% of the time to make money with market timing approach")
3. Should include more learning/strategies from Philip Fisher

In conclusion, "The Guru Investor - How to beat the market using history's best investment strategies", is a very good resource to help us understand many of the proven stock investing strategies (as applied by several of the investing legend). This book is a nice hybrid of "the intelligent investor" type book (theory concentrated) and "One up on Wall Street" (practical and experience) type book.

Happy Investing,

Sidarta Tanu
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars More Mental Models = Beat the Market, October 24, 2009
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Warren Buffet's partner Charlie Munger once said, "You've got to have mental models in your head". John reveals to us in one book the diverse styles of some of the greatest investors who ever lived, all having achieved the same outcome---beating the market. A holistic approach to quantifying the seemingly unquantifiable, John's research into these famous investors makes the book a fantastic read, giving us the much needed mental models to beat the market. Great book!

Jim Didato
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn how to invest from the Gurus, March 8, 2009
This is simply one of the best investment books on the market. Who better to learn from than the greatest investors in history? What better strategies can you use than the ones used by Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Ken Fisher, Martin Zwieg or Peter Lynch? What this book does is review the lives and investing performance of the top ten investors who ever lived. Then the book presents how to invest like them using the same metrics and valuations that the gurus used based on their own books or from writings from people who have studied the gurus. The author has used model portfolios based on the techniques in the book to show that these approaches continued to work from 2003 to 2008 with most of them doubling and tripling the performance of the S&P 500 over that time.
The book will give you the knowledge you need to pick stocks using stock screeners based on price to sales ratios, price to earnings ratios, book value, liquidity, earnings growth, and many other metrics you will learn from the gurus. There is also a free companion web site that gives three stocks for each guru that currently meet their guidelines. The book recommends sticking with a strategy for the long run to really get results. It also explains the need to balance your portfolio at regular intervals, and sell stocks when the fundamentals have changed or they get involved in an accounting or other scandal. Excellent book for getting started in investing or for improving your investing performance.


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