Just One Thing Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook

by Mauldin, John

• ISBN13: 9780470081815
• ISBN10: 0470081813
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Mastery made easy! In traveling the shifting terrain of the financial world, one is often met with confusing and even contradictory directions. In the search for a reliable path, there's nothing like a personal guide-one who can show you the most direct route to your goal. In Just One Thing, author John Mauldin offers an incomparable shortcut to prosperity: the personal guidance of an outstanding group of recognized financial experts, each offering the single most useful piece of advice garnered from years of investing. Never before has such an esteemed assembly of financial gurus offered their most valued insights in such a succinct manner-and in a single volume. In marvelously readable essays of uncommon clarity, each contributor presents the most precious kernel of advice-just one thing-that he would pass on to his own children and his children's children. And now these gems of investment wisdom can be yours. What is the most important piece of investment advice you can find? Let these twelve investment gurus share with you the "Just One Thing" each of them has learned: * Rob Arnott * Bill Bonner * Ed Easterling * Mark Finn * Dennis Gartman * George Gilder * Andy Kessler * Michael Masterson * John Mauldin * James Montier * Richard Russell * A. Gary Shilling

Author Biography

John Mauldin is widely recognized as a leading expert on investment issues. As President of Millennium Wave Investments, he is primarily involved in private money management, financial services, and investments. A prolific author, his books include the Wiley bestseller, Bull's Eye Investing. His financial e-letter, Thoughts from the Frontline, goes to over 1,500,000 readers weekly. He is also a frequent contributor to other financial publications, including the Financial Times and the Daily Reckoning. In addition, he is the author of a free letter on hedge funds and private offerings for accredited investors. A sought-after speaker on financial matters, Mauldin addresses numerous investment conferences and seminars throughout the year.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Signposts in the Fog	p. 1
The "Not-So-Simple" (But Really Utterly So) Rules of Trading	p. 15
The Triumph of Hope over Long-Run Experience: Using Past Returns to Predict Future Performance of a Money Manager	p. 27
The Long Bond	p. 45
Risk Is Not a Knob	p. 77
Psychology Matters: An Investors' Guide to Thinking about Thinking	p. 99
The Means Are the Ends	p. 145
The 2 Percent Solution	p. 157
The Outsider Trading Scandal	p. 171
The Winner's Rule	p. 185
Rich Man, Poor Man	p. 199
The Millennium Wave	p. 213
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 253
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