Book description
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.
