In the current economic climate everybody needs the ability to make smart investing decisions and Wiley is pleased to announce three new titles - Cocktail Investing: Distilling Everyday Noise into Clear Investment Signals for Better Returns; Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors; and Common Stocks and Common Sense: The Strategies, Analyses, Decisions, and Emotions of a Particularly Successful Value Investor – to help readers get the best from their investments:
Cocktail Investing: Distilling Everyday Noise into Clear Investment Signals for Better Returns by Christopher J. Versace and Lenore Elle Hawkins (9781119003946, £19.99)
Cutting through the constant clutter of ‘expert’ opinions and fancy models makes learning how, where and why to invest next to impossible for the average investor.
In response, Cocktail Investing helps readers to filter out only the information they can use for smarter money moves.
The authors realised that most market trends can be spotted in everyday observations and often arise in friendly “happy hour” conversations. By focusing on the intersection of economics, demographics, psychographics, technology, policy and more, they empower their readers to build a more profitable portfolio based on their own findings.
Through relatable and entertaining stories, Cocktail Investing will help readers:
• Follow a process to successfully build and maintain a portfolio
• Avoid errors and poor moves caused by emotional investing
• Filter out useless and misleading data
• Identify cyclical and structural changes that have reshaped business models
• Read the economy like a professional investor
Modern investing requires a whole new approach, and Cocktail Investing is a clear, insightful guide for putting it into action.
About the authors
Christopher J. Versace, widely known as The Thematic Investor, is a founding partner of Tematica Research and editor of the Tematica Investing and Tematica Trading publications. He is also the co-manager of the Growth Seeker portfolio with Lenore Hawkins and fundamental detective for Trifecta Stocks, both at TheStreet. He is also a contributor to TheStreet and Forbes, and regularly shares his investing and insights on national radio and television programs.
Lenore Elle Hawkins is a founding partner at Meritas Advisors, where she is the firm's chief investment strategist, and focuses on macroeconomic influences. She is co-portfolio manager of the Growth Seeker portfolio with Christopher Versace at TheStreet. She shares her unique insights as a frequent guest on a variety of national and international radio and television shows, as well as at investing and economic conferences throughout the world.
Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors by Allen C. Benello, Michael van Biema, Tobias E. Carlisle (9781119012023, £33.99)
Concentrated Investing chronicles the virtually unknown—but wildly successful—value investors who have regularly and spectacularly blown away the results of even the world's top fund managers by picking a small group of undervalued stocks and holding onto them through even the lean years. Sharing the insights of these top value investors – including Lou Simpson, a former GEICO investment manager and eventual successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, and Kristian Siem, described as ‘Norway's Warren Buffett’, - expert authors Allen Benello, Michael van Biema, and Tobias Carlisle unveil the strategies that make concentrated value investing incredibly profitable, while at the same time showing how to mitigate risk over time.
Whether a professional investor, institutional money manager, business/finance student, or sophisticated individual investor, Concentrated Investing will enable the reader to find out more about the approach which has been championed by Warren Buffett, the best known value investor of our time.
About the authors
Allen C. Benello, CFA is the chairman of White River Investment Partners, LLC, a private investment firm in San Francisco.
Michael Van Biema is the founder and man- aging principal of van Biema Value Partners, LLC, and coauthor of Value Investing.
Tobias E. Carlisle is a partner at Carbon Beach Asset Management, LLC, and author of the books Deep Value and Quantitative Value and the Greenbackd.com blog.
Common Stocks and Common Sense: The Strategies, Analyses, Decisions, and Emotions of a Particularly Successful Value Investor by Edgar Wachenheim, III (9781119259602, £23.99)
This book uses a case study approach to provide a deep insight and candid discussion from one of Wall Street's best investors.
In the book, Wachenheim shares his knowledge and experiences by providing detailed analyses of actual investments made by himself and other investors with candid insight into the joys and frustrations, intensities and pressures, and risks and uncertainties. His analysis of real cases - including IBM, Whirlpool, Boeing and Goldman Sachs - serve as a valuable education for anyone looking to improve their own investment practices.
Almost all existing books on investing describe investment principles and strategies, but almost none show, through detailed examples, how the principles and strategies are employed in actual investment situations. This book goes beyond the typical guide to show the reader how ideas are applied in the real world—and what actually happens.
Investors seeking real insight, real expertise, and a proven track record will find Common Stocks and Common Sense a uniquely useful resource.
About the author
Edgar Wachenheim III is chairman and chief portfolio manager of Greenhaven Associates and one of Wall Street's preeminent investors. Greenhaven currently manages about $5.5 billion in funds and has a client list that includes the Wachenheim family, university and college endowments, retired Wall Street executives, and wealthy families.
Contact the publicist:
Katy Smith
Publicity Manager, Professional Development
katysmith@wiley.com
+44 (0) 1243 770215