by This book is light reading compared to Ben Graham's seminal tome, Security Analysis. It's easier to read, and shorter. It's also more up to date. Highly recommended for investors of any stripe, value or growth. The appendix, from Warren Buffett's speech at Columbia University is particularly entertaining, as he debunks academia's love affair with efficient market theory.
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Warren Buffett introduced this edition of The Intelligent Investor by remarking that when he first read the book as an undergrad he thought then that it was the best investment book ever written, and many years later, after Benjamin Graham had died, Mr. Buffett still thought that The Intelligent Investor was the best investment book ever written, even today. After reading this extended meditation on caution before the stock market, hot tips, and pseudo-quantitative information, I have to concur with Mr. Buffett's assessment. Although much has been said about this text, after reading it, I now feel that the great many that trumpet its merits simply do not understand its lessons or even its value. Many credit this book, and Graham and Dodd's earlier Security Analysis, for spawning the value investing movement. While true, this book represents something much more. It does not, as most people insist, put forth a quantitative approach to investing. That, unfortunately, is a gross distillation of some of the ideas contained in the book. Rather, it presents a way of thinking about investing, and emphasizes the approach to investing operations, especially with regard to safety, expectations and temperament. Now some have criticized the book as being quite dated and irrelevant to today's fast moving and turbulent market, but these criticisms must be placed in proper context. This book was written in 1971 and was several revisions removed from the first edition, which appeared in 1949. Sadly, Mr.Read more ›
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