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Author name: John Train

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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN num: 9780887309700
ISBN number: 0887309704
Label: Collins Business
Manufacturer: Collins Business
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: May 01, 2003
Publishing house: Collins Business
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 110917
Studio: Collins Business




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An expert reviews the experts – new and updated appraisals of the winning investment strategies of the greatest financial wizards.



Money Masters of Our Time is a reappraisal and revision of those money masters who have stood the test of time plus a look at new money masters. Train emphasises the parts of their various business careers that illuminate their investment techniques focusing on notable individuals whose decisions to buy and sell have actually made money grow. How do they reason? Where do they get their information? How much do they depend on fact and how much on psychology? What are their criteria in selecting a stock? What stocks are they buying now, and why?



The 'Money Masters' covered are: Warren Buffet, Paul Cabot, Philip Carret, Philip Fisher, Benjamin Graham, Mark Lightbrown, Peter Lynch, John Neff, T. Rowe Price, Richard Rainwater, Julian Robertson, Jim Rogers, George Soros, Michael Steinhardt, John Templeton, Ralph Wanger, Robert Wilson. Train centres on their investment techniques and methods and also gives brief biographical evaluations.









Customer Reviews
User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - If you are interested in finance then you will benefit - a lot.
This is a wonderful book. It is highly probable that you will learn a lot from the Money Masters. I bet that you will read it more than once. If you buy it and don't like it then I will buy it from you at my average cost.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - good investor interview book - inspiring
like the Investment Gurus book in that it interviews great investors.

very good food for investment thinking. boring to read though took many times to open it to finish it



Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Too Brief
The idea of this book was great but unfortunately it was disappointing. It does not go into enough detail into any of the managers' investment processes to be able to apply them. I would suggest reading instead The Intelligent Investor, John Neff on Investing, or The Warren Buffet Way.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Good, gossipy book of vignettes
The people who are looking to gain valuable insight as to the workings of the market from this book are sadly mistaken. This is a book, along the lines of James Grant's book, that gives a number of vignettes and minature biographies of the leading money makers of our times, such as T. Rowe Price, Buffet, Templeton, Rainwater, Cabot, Fisher, Graham, Lightbown, Neff, Robertson, Rogers, Soros, Carret, Steinhardt, Wanger, Wilson, Lynch. You will essentially find that there is no "one" style that is successful, which lends credence to the theory that the markets are quite efficient, and some of these guys are victims of luck as well as skill.

The fact that it was written in early 2000 is a plus, not a minus, as you can trace what happened to them after the crash.

GOod book, the author is a bit preachy, egotistical and gossips about his subjects, but that's OK.





Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Don't Waste Your Money
I have read Mr. Train's earlier books The Money Masters and The New Money Masters and found them informative and interesting, gaining insights from some of the worlds most sucessful investors. Mr. Train's research seemed to rely heavily on personal interviews of these Masters often providing the reader with unique investment philosophies not readily available elsewhere. I especially recommend Mr. Train's very first book in this series The Money Masters because this book moved me away from the trading of stocks and futures as practiced by Robert Wilson the short seller and Stanly Kroll the great commodity speculator. The techniques they employed seemed too elusive and fraught with risk and if this was the basis of the trading game it was not the game for me. I was instead attracted to the similer philosophies of mentor and student Ben Grahman and Warren Buffett. Looking at a stock as a share of a business not a piece of paper with a number on it. This was the very first time I had been exposed to the wisdom of these two investors and I am grateful to Mr. Train for revealing to the public their methods. The problem I have with the current rendition is that it really adds nothing new. In fact Mr. Train seems to have copied parts of the very first Money Masters and spliced them into this version. I may be wrong but it doesn't seem that the effort or creativity that went into the original went into this work. Another sort of irritating quality in this instance thankfully not present in the very first book is Mr. Train's need to psychoanalyze some of his subjects especially Mr. Buffett. This adds an edge to the book that is not worthy of Mr. Train.

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