Synopses & Reviews
A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager—filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you’ll need to become a stock market genius.
Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too. You’re about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss—uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including:
· Spin-offs
· Restructurings
· Merger Securities
· Rights Offerings
· Recapitalizations
· Bankruptcies
· Risk Arbitrage
Review
The Wall Street Journal Joel Greenblatt can indeed teach you about the market and how fortunes can be made there.
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Andrew Tobias bestselling author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need I hope few investors will read this smart, sophisticated, fun book. I don't want competition profiting from its very real insights.
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Alan C. "Ace" Greenburg Chairman of the Board, Bear Stearns Joel is my kind of guy -- very, very long on common sense. This book is great!
About the Author
Joel Greenblatt is the founder and a managing partner of Gotham Capital, a private investment partnership that has achieved 40% annualized returns since its inception in 1985. He is a professor on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School, the former chairman of the board of a Fortune 500 company, the cofounder of ValueInvestorsClub.com, and the author of You Can Be a Stock Market Genius. Greenblatt holds a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Table of Contents
Contents1. Follow the Yellow Brick Road -- Then Hang a Right
2. Some Basics -- Don't Leave Home Without Them
3. Chips Off the Old Stock: Spinoffs, Partial Spinoffs, and Rights Offerings
4. Don't Try This at Home: Risk Arbitrage and Merger Securities
5. Blood in the Streets (Hopefully, Not Yours): Bankruptcy and Restructuring
6. "Baby Needs New Shoes" Meets "Other People's Money": Recapitalizations and Stub Stocks, LEAPS, Warrants, and Options
7. Seeing the Trees Through the Forest
8. All the Fun's in Getting There
Appendix: Gotham Capital
Glossary
Index