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Beating The Street
by Peter Lynch
Description:
Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio. Develop a Winning Investment Strategy with Expert Advice from The Nation’s #1 Money Manager. Peter Lynch’s invest in what you know strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies and their stocks perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do it yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step by step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.
About The Author
Peter Lynch is an Irish meteorologist, mathematician, blogger and book author. His interests include numerical weather prediction, dynamic meteorology, Hamiltonian mechanics, and the history of meteorology.
He was born in Dublin, and educated at University College Dublin, where he obtained his BSc (1968) and MSc (1969) in mathematical science. He enlisted in the Irish meteorological service (now known as Met Éireann) in 1971, and worked there until 2004, rising to the rank of Head of the Research and Training Division and later Deputy Director. In 1982, he was awarded a PhD by Trinity College Dublin for his thesis Planetary-scale Hydrodynamic Instability in the Atmosphere written under the supervision of Ray Bates.
In 2004, he moved to academia, becoming Met Éireann Professor of Meteorology at the School of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Meteorology & Climate Centre at University College Dublin. He has supervised several doctoral theses there.
Shortly after formally retiring from UCD in 2011, he started writing a weekly mathematical blog called “That’s Maths”, about half of the columns also appearing in The Irish Times newspaper (on the first and third Thursdays of each month)
Skryf Review
Excellent book
Good advice on investing, overall, from one of the most successful investors in history. Reading this book will not make you Peter Lynch, but eventually, even Peter Lynch bowed out of his Magellan fund…Read it with a grain of salt. Lynch is a genius who landed on The Street at the best moment in history for his investing style. But today’s successful investors will make their returns differently.