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The Big Secret for the Small Investor
- The Shortest Route to Long-Term Investment Success
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Money & Finance, Investing & Trading
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Publisher's Summary
When it comes to investing in the stock market, investors have plenty of options:
- They can do it themselves. Trillions of dollars are invested this way. (Of course, the only problem here is that most people have no idea how to analyze and choose individual stocks. Well, not really the only problem. Most investors have no idea how to construct a stock portfolio, most have no idea when to buy and sell, and most have no idea how much to invest in the first place.)
- They can give it to professionals to invest. Trillions of dollars are invested this way.(Unfortunately most professionals actually underperform the market averages over time. In fact,it may be even harder to pick good professional managers than it is to pick good individual stocks.)
- They can invest in traditional index funds. Trillions of dollars are also invested this way.(The problem is that investing this way is seriously flawed--and almost a guarantee of subpar investment returns over time.)
- They can read The Big Secret for the Small Investor and do something else. Not much is invested this way. Yet....
Let top hedge fund manager, Columbia business school professor, former Fortune 500 chairman and New York Times best-selling author Joel Greenblatt take you on a journey that will reveal the Big Secret for both individual and professional investors. Based on path-breaking new research, find out how anyone can beat the market, the index funds and the experts by following a new approach that relies on the principles of value investing, common sense and quantitative discipline. Along the way, learn where "value" comes from, how markets work, and what really happens on Wall Street. By journey's end, small investors (and even not-so-small investors) will have found their way to some excellent new investment choices.
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- Bishal Rana
- 21-03-2019
Short
Very short. Main ideas can be boiled down to a few bullet points. Equal weighted index.
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- Sitiveni
- 07-06-2017
Greenblatt has done it again
My favourite investor Joel Greenblatt has done it again and with the same narrator as previous books have made it enjoyable. I have followed his teachings and the returns I've made from less then $59 invested in his books is unbelievable.
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- Dominic Sinagra
- 04-03-2017
Good basic book for investors
Would you listen to The Big Secret for the Small Investor again? Why?
I would recommend this book as a great starting point for anyone looking to expand their knowledge on investing. Joel Greenblatt breaks it down into simple principles that are easily applied to the real world.
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- Harold
- 03-12-2020
No1. must read for the retail investor
As a pretty sophisticated retail investor it didnt tell me a lot I didnt know but it was a great reminder to focus on the segment of the market where we have the biggest advantage. Especially in Australia where we have a lack of venture capital. He covers the critical fundamentals every retail investor needs to understand and very succinctly summarises the easiest and most efficient strategy for investing successfully in shares.
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- Golden Gate Love
- 19-10-2011
Missing something important...
Either I read Greenblatt's books out of order or this entire book missed the main point of why I read it... to learn how to value companies.
The book adeptly described the difficulty of being accurate in valuations of a business and offered some ways of thinking about valuing a business relative to many factors that I personally would not have thought of. The book went into very interesting detail about why the small investor has a big leg up on hamstrung Wall St. mutual fund managers just seeking to keep their day jobs. He even describes different types of indexes that you can buy and sell as ETFs and how these perform at higher levels than market cap indexes.
In the end, with all this high level understanding and real depth of knowledge on the intricacies of investing, I was still left without the basic strategy of how to go about valuing a business. Annoyingly, he kept alluding to us having or him later explaining the actual way to perform valuations, but it never came.
In the end, I'm like a first time fisherman trying to land a marlin with a 20 lb deep sea rod, 200 lb test line, the best lure money can buy, with no clue how to reel the **** thing in.
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- N. Price
- 10-05-2016
Make a quick $20, don't buy this book
Holy LORD this is bad ! Now I'm sure there will be some intellectuals out there that will spin his advice into a "Horoscope-Like" interpretation of how they can get their portfolio to perform better... but overall, this book tells you NOTHING!! In addition the author can't make his mind up on whether he wants to be "folksy" in his dispensing of info or an MBA throwing so much jargon at you that your head spins.
His whole premise is basically: Find Something; and Buy it for Less... But then goes on to talk about every way to determine a valuation (so that in theory you can buy it for less) and then says... yeah but that doesn't really work. Even his end advice... yeah big surprise here , invest in value mutual funds is flawed, because he pretty much admits that they will be up or down (depending on shear luck of the draw) but Never talks about how to determine if they're on the way up or down or over/under valued. Here's free advice.... There is No formula. Your best bet is to use the Bear Analogy.... If you and a buddy are getting chased by a bear, you don;t have to outrun the bear....just your buddy. Everyone is in the same crappy investment boat, as long as you hedge your bets and don;t go all in on freakin iceberg futures in Ethiopia, you'll be better off then the majority of people out there investing in lottery tickets every week. You Are Smarter Than This BOOK!!!
But I will say that the Narrator was pretty decent
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- Nicolas G. Ramirez
- 14-06-2016
Interesting concept
But leaved to general. Seems more as comercial ad to the product. It never landed in the how.
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- Bigcurt1963
- 22-09-2019
The Magic Formula
You have to go to the website The Magic Formula to get the stocks he is talking about and then keep track by selling losers and winners before or after they have been held for one year for tax purposes to make this system work.
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- John
- 17-04-2011
Very Interesting Information
This is a really interesting book on some specific approaches to value investing. It has a lot of practical information. The book is also relatively short and an entertaining listen -- well, for a book on this subject.
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- Anant Kishore
- 27-06-2018
Decent but not great
It's OK but if you have to pick one go with his "Little Book That Still Beats the Market." I found the latter to be really good. As far as this book, I must be a dummy because I never really figured out what the "Big Secret" was unless, God forbid, it was his recommendation to use a value weighted index fund and hang on. That's it? I love Greenblatt but this book is average at best. Please write a book about how to value and select individual stocks Mr. Greenblatt. Thanks.
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- William
- 25-03-2013
Another good one from Mr. Greenblatt
What made the experience of listening to The Big Secret for the Small Investor the most enjoyable?
He speaks to the common investor... and some information on why the small retail investor can actually outperform the big money managers over time. If you have the time and inclination to select your own stocks (if you don't, you should put money into a very low cost index fund or index ETF), then this book will be worth your time to listen to.
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- Jim
- 07-04-2011
I don't want you to read this book
I want the secret for myself and no one else.
All Greenblatt books are great and so is this one.
This one asks the right questions in how value an investment.
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- Anthony
- 25-04-2011
Fantastic!
Joel's writing style, personality, and investing insights are eye opening. It is a fantastic book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-01-2021
algo basico
entre menos sepas, mejor lo encontrarás. puede ser un primer libro para empezar a ver donde invertir. no para portafolios activamente administrados
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- Matt Lewis
- 14-03-2018
still wondering where the secret is
unfortunately i found this book a bit of an example of a C grade student trying to get through their exams - dump everything down on paper you can remember and fail to reach any conclusions I think the book can be summarised in: investing is hard it takes patience you probably cannot beat the market so just buy a low cost index tracker value stocks beat the market but due to going against the herd and tracking issues it will mess with your head smaller stocks will have best opportunity as big players won't be fishing in that pond It's a pity as Joel's other books are fabulous and the magic formula was revolutionary
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-08-2015
Good introduction to some key truths
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
It presents key issues that are vital to understanding how collective investments work, their weaknesses and the true behaviours of fund managers. It steers people towards passive, cheaper, systematic investments in the form of ETFs and particularly the newer breed of 'smart beta' ETFs. However, whilst the journey was enjoyable and informative, they could have just skipped to that simple suggestion without the need for an entire book. But if you are new to investment then the ideas will not be lost, they will be valuable.
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- stupormundi
- 17-04-2019
trite
This book is written in the worst kind of bucolic cheesy American folksy style. If you know a little about investing then this book is too simple for you .. if you are totally unknowledgeable then stick to experts or safer forms of investment.
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