Synopses & Reviews
Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will hunger for Burton G. Malkiel's reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. With 1.5 million copies sold, has long been established as the first book to purchase when starting a portfolio. In addition to covering the full range of investment opportunities, the book features new material on the Great Recession and the global credit crisis as well as an increased focus on the long-term potential of emerging markets. With a new supplement that tackles the increasingly complex world of derivatives, along with the book's classic life-cycle guide to investing, remains the best investment guide money can buy.
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"Almost every list of must-read investment books... includes Malkiel's ." Booklist
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"Not more than half a dozen really good books about investing have been written in the past fifty years. This one may well belong in the classics category." Forbes
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"[Malkiel] should be dipped in gold and placed on a pedestal in front of the New York Stock Exchange, as a warning to investors that they can't profit from the brokerages' rigged game. . . . Do you want to do well in the stock market? Here's the best advice. Scrape together a few bucks and buy Burton Malkiel's book. Then take what's left and put it in an index fund." Michael Hiltzik
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"Talk to 10 money experts and you're likely to hear 10 recommendations for Burton Malkiel's classic investing book, now in its 10th edition." The Wall Street Journal
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" has set thousands of investors on a straight path since it was first published in 1973. Even if you read the book then or more recently, a refresher course is probably in order.... A lucid mix of the theoretical and the pragmatic." Chicago Tribune
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"If one of your New Year's resolutions is to improve your personal finances, here's a suggestion: Instead of picking up one of the scores of new works flooding into bookstores, reread an old one: ." New York Times
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"An engagingly written and wonderfully argued tome." Booklist
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"Imagine getting a week-long lesson on investing from someone with the common sense of Benjamin Franklin, the academic and institutional knowledge of Milton Friedman and the practical experience of Warren Buffett. That's about what awaits you in the latest edition of this must-read by Burton Malkiel." Money Magazine
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"A must-read for any investor." Barron's
Synopsis
One of the "few great investment books" (Andrew Tobias) ever written. A Weekend Investor "Best Books for Investors" Pick
About the Author
Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He is a former member of the Council of Economic Advisers, dean of the Yale School of Management, and has served on the boards of several major corporations, including Vanguard and Prudential Financial. He is the chief investment officer of Wealthfront.