The Guru Investor How to Beat the Market

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.

John P. Reese, MBA, is the founder and CEO of Validea.com and Validea Capital Management. He is also portfolio manager for the Omega American and International Consensus mutual funds offered in the Canadian market. He is a regular columnist for Forbes.com, RealMoney.com, and Israel's Globes newspaper. He holds two patents in the area of automated stock analysis and is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jack M. Forehand, CFA, is President of Validea.com and cofounder of Validea Capital Management, LLC. Working in conjunction with John Reese, Forehand led the development of Validea's investment models as well as the quantitative testing that led to the creation of Validea Capital Management's consensus portfolios. He graduated from the honors program of the University of Connecticut with a BA in economics and is a CFA charterholder.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Why You Need this Book	p. 1
Learn from the Worst	p. 3
The Cavalry Arrives	p. 19
The Value Legends	p. 31
The Granddaddy of the Gurus	p. 33
The Investor's Investor	p. 55
The Great Contrarian	p. 73
The Greatest Guru	p. 95
The Growth Legends (With a Value Twist)	p. 127
The Star "GARP" Manager	p. 129
The Price-Sales Pioneer	p. 155
The Conservative Growth Investor	p. 175
The Pure Quants	p. 197
The Quintessential Quant	p. 199
The Man with the Magic Formula	p. 219
The Undiscovered Academic	p. 233
From Theory to Practice	p. 247
Putting It Together: The Principles of Guru Investing	p. 249
The Missing Piece: Determining When to Sell	p. 269
Conclusion Time To Take The Wheel	p. 279
Performance of Guru-Based 10-and 20-Stock Model Portfolios	p. 283
Guru Yearly Track Record Comparison (Actual or Back-Tested Returns)	p. 287
References	p. 295
About the Authors	p. 303
Index	p. 305
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