Beating the Odds Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies

by Brown, Eddie; Walker, Blair S.

• ISBN13: 9780470936627
• ISBN10: 0470936622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The book is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that accumulated more than $2.5 billion under management.Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

Author Biography

Eddie C. Brown is founder and President of Brown Capital Management, a Baltimore-based financial services firm that has amassed more than $6 billion under management and is one of the country's oldest African-American-owned invest-ment firms.

Blair S. Walker is a former USA Today financial journalist who's an acclaimed novelist, as well as the writer behind Wiley's bestselling Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
Who Says Talk Is Cheap?	p. 1
The Big Three to the Rescue	p. 7
The Prince of Apopka	p. 13
Death and a Kidnapping	p. 23
Magnificent, Mysterious Lady B.	p. 33
Engineering a New Existence	p. 43
Europe on Five Dollars a Day	p. 51
ôEd, We're Already Doing Okay!ö	p. 57
A Famished Lion in a Butcher Shop	p. 69
The Height of Duplicity and Betrayal?	p. 79
A Window on the Top 1 Percent	p. 91
Pulling the Trigger on Investments	p. 105
Swimming with Sharks	p. 121
Aren't You That Financial Guy From TV?	p. 131
Walking a Racial Tightrope	p. 141
ôGo For It, Dad!ö	p. 145
Everyone's Medical Nightmare	p. 155
My Biggest Business Mistake	p. 163
A Horror Movie without Sound	p. 171
The Art and Science of Stock Picking	p. 177
ôGod, I Owe You One!ö	p. 181
Impressive Progress, Baffling Lethargy	p. 185
To Heir Is Human	p. 191
Anyone Care for a Can of New Coke?	p. 197
Epilogue	p. 203
Index	p. 205
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