newReview of Conscious Investor software - "If you want a good
analysis tool as well as the basic corporate data, then you might consider trying out
Conscious Investor. Plus, you get the bonus of the Conscious Investor team’s own
stock selections, as well as an interesting and valuable member’s forum. We are
impressed enough with the package to have purchased it for our own use..."
Investing - the Last Liberal Art
- new - by Robert Hagstrom -
"Influenced, as he acknowledges, by Charlie Munger's investment philosophy, Robert
Hagstrom's book takes up on Munger's approach. Investing: the Last Liberal Art,
by the author of The Warren Buffett Way, is an extraordinary achievement, a book
that goes far beyond being a simple primer of investment approaches..."
The
intelligent Investorby Benjamin Graham - "If you don’t have this
book in your library, then you should not even be contemplating an investment in shares
directly, or even indirectly, though a mutual fund. It is surely not a co-incidence, as
Warren Buffett graphically illustrates in his Appendix to this book, that some of the
world’s most successful investors learned at the feet of Benjamin Graham..." Read Review
Buffett,
by Roger Lowenstein - "Most books about Warren Buffett give us a brief
picture of Warren’s life, but concentrate on analyzing his known investments and then
putting together the author’s perceptions of why he bough the shares and why he sold
them. This well written and interesting book concentrates on the life of Wall
Street’s most successful investor, focussing on the man, rather than the
system..." Read Review
The
New Buffettology, by Mary Buffet and David Clark - "The authors look at
the companies Buffett has invested in over the years and what he has said about investment
principles and use this to draw up a series of tests and principles that they claim he
puts in place when selecting investments. We cannot say with any certainty that these
tests and principles totally and accurately reflect the way that Warren Buffett does
business. We can however say that they make good and logical sense to us..." Read Review
The Interpretation of
Financial Statements, by Benjamin Graham - "This is a book that
nobody seriously considering a stock investment should be without. Even non-stock
investors with an indirect interest in the stock market through retirement and mutual
funds can benefit from a reading of this book. It can help them understand what their fund
managers are doing with their money..." read review
Value
Investing, by Janet Lowe - new
- "This book is a little gem for anybody who has difficulties in understanding the
investment philosophy of Benjamin Graham. Lowe, who has written extensively on Graham,
explains many of the investment terms and strategies given by Graham in his writings and
relates them to current and up to date business situations. She explains to the reader
what value investment is and its connection to both company growth and intrinsic value.
..." read review
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