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Editors Picks Five Legendary Investment Minds
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| Thursday, 31 January 2008 | ||||||||
Benjamin Graham is known as the "Father of Value Investing" and the "Dean of Wall Street."He fathered the concept of in-depth fundamental analysis of stocks. The current and widely familiar concepts of price to earnings ratios (P/E ratios), dividends, debt-to-equity, book value and earnings growth became main stream in fundamental research.His sound principles show investors how to minimize risk by adopting a "margin of safety" and buying only those stocks that are deemed to have excellent value. The teachings have clearly proven over time that they work, as Graham’s investments returned an average of 17% per year from 1929 to 1956: years that included the Great Depression, World War II, and two recessions. Fidelity, Peter Lynch The Investment Legend Who Turned $22 million Into $14 Billion!At Fidelity, Peter Lynch rose from the rank of a number-crunching analyst in 1969 to fund manager in 1977. During his career at Fidelity, Lynch achieved rock star status in the world of investing.From $22 million in assets in 1977, Lynch built a behemoth fund with assets of $14 billion by 1990, at which time he decided to call it quits to spend more time with his family. By then, a legend had been born, and to this day his investment strategies are still analyzed and yielding big profits for investors. Over this 13 year period he had annual returns of 29% while the S&P 500 gained only 9%! Philip A. Fisher The College Dropout Who Used Detailed Research To Make MillionsA college dropout from the Standard Business School, Philip A. Fisher became one of the top investors in history. Fisher was a visionary with an investment career that spanned over seven decades. He stressed a long-term perspective when buying stocks and searched for companies that displayed innovation.Fisher recognized the technology potential of Motorola in 1955 and acquired a position ...
that he held until his passing in 2004. He also acquired shares in Texas Instruments in 1956, long before it would became publicly traded in 1970. William O'Neil The Quantitative Expert Who Launched a WinnerWilliam O'Neil is known as the person who launched Investor's Business Daily, the widely popular and highly respected financial publication, in 1963 as an option to The Wall Street Journal. He also developed the C-A-N-S-L-I-M system, which was driven by in-depth analysis of every big stock market winner over a 40-year period.Each letter in C-A-N-S-L-I-M represents one of the seven key factors that O'Neil found was prevalent in the stocks that showed the biggest price moves. Discover how the C-A-N-S-L-I-M system can deliver big profits to your portfolio; it’s revealed in the special research report. Warren Buffettt His Investing Techniques Have Given Him A $52 Billion Net Worth.Warren Buffettt is widely considered the icon of value investing and is arguably the best investor in the history of the stock market. The only student at Columbia to receive an “A+” from Benjamin Graham, Buffettt went on to become one of the wealthiest people in the world, with an estimated net worth of $52 billion in 2006, according to the Forbes annual ranking of the world’s richest people. Regardless of the market conditions, Buffettt has proven to be a consistent performer over time, with an incredible compound return of around 22.3% over a 36 year period. Source : Newsletter Advisors
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