The big win: learning from the legends to become a more successful investor

A rousing and practical look at the extremely successful investments of top investorsIn his first book, The Billion Dollar Mistake, author Stephen L. Weissshowcased the biggest blunders of some of the world's legendary investors—which lost them billions of dollars on a single investment. Incredibly, the mistakes they made were the same mistakes made by everyday investors but for the magnitude of the loss.Weiss's second book, The Big Win: Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor, highlights financial successes, explaining how the world's most successful investors make a fortune and how you can do the same. As with the missteps Weiss profiled in his first book, the strategies used by these legendary investors are available to all, regardless of size or sophistication.Profiles legendary investors and highlights their investment strategies—from finding the right investment to researching to making amoveProbes each investor's personality and questions their investment thinkingIdentifies and describes each investor's "big win" and why it became their most successful investmentThe Big Win is a primer on successful investing the way it is really done by the people who do it for a living—passionately and with extraordinary success. The Billion Dollar Mistake told readers what not to do to get rich; The Big Win shows readers how to do it right for the payoff oftheir lives. INDICE: AcknowledgmentIntroductionChapter One:The Legends I Have Met: A Behind the Scenes Look at What Makes a LegendChapter Two: Follow the Money: The Ugly Reality of Whale WatchingChapter Three: The Glass Ceiling of Performance:Renée HaugerudChapter Four: The Boom Goes Bust: James S. ChanosChapter Five:Digging Deep, Coming Up Big: Lee AinslieChapter Six: small caps, BIG GAINS: Chuck RoyceChapter Seven: The Prophet of A Profitable Vision: Alfred A. TaubmanChapter Eight: The 21st Century Belongs to China—and Commodities: James Beeland Rogers, Jr.Chapter Nine: Opportunity Is Where You Find It: R. Donahue PeeblesChapter Ten: Finding Value in Junk: Martin J. WhitmanConclusion: So There You Have Itâ€aNotesAbout the AuthorIndex

• ISBN: 978-0-470-91610-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 16/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés