The guru investor
Subtitle: how to beat the market using history's best investment strategies
By: John P. Reese, Jack M. Forehand.
Contributors: Forehand, Jack M.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470377093
Subjects: Investments; Investment analysis -- Data processing; Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography; Quantitative analysts -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Best investment strategies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why you need this book. Learn from the worst; The cavalry arrives; title: The value legends. Benjamin Graham, the granddaddy of the gurus; John Neff, the investor's investor; David Dreman, the great contrarian; Warren Buffett, the greatest guru; title: Growth legends (with a value twist). Peter Lynch, the star "GARP" manager; Kenneth l. Fisher, the price/sales pioneer; Martin Zweig, the conservative growth investor; title: The pure quants. James O'Shaughnessy, the quintessential quant; Joel Greenblatt, the man with the magic formula;  Joseph Piotroski, the undiscovered academic; title: From theory to practice. Putting it together: the principles of guru investing; The missing piece: knowing when to fold 'em; title: Conclusion: time to take the wheel; title: Appendix A: Validea's model performance charts; title: Appendix B: Guru yearly track record comparison (actual or back tested returns).