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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9780887309700
ISBN: 0887309704
Label: Collins Business
Manufacturer: Collins Business
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher: Collins Business
Release Date: 2003-05-13
Studio: Collins Business

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Summary: If you are interested in finance then you will benefit - a lot.
Comment: 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.

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Summary: good investor interview book - inspiring
Comment: 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

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Summary: Too Brief
Comment: 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.

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Summary: Good, gossipy book of vignettes
Comment: 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.

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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money
Comment: 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 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 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 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 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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In Money Masters of Our Time, John Train once again displays his ability to explain clearly the strategies, experience, and human qualities of those money masters who have stood the test of time as well as newer ones. He brings together experts who represent various investment "schools" -- growth, value, technology, emerging markets, specialty companies, micro-caps, turnarounds, top down, bottom up, and othersâ€”clarifying their similarities and differences and showing how diverse methods and techniques work.

Whether contrasting the long-term approach of Warren Buffett with the "relentless pursuit" style of Peter Lynch or distilling the principles of market timing or expounding a list of investment "don'ts," John Train makes the collective wisdom of the greatest, most successful investors available to all, professional and amateur alike.