The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
Sound, sensible advice from a hero to frustrated investors everywhere
William Bernstein's The Four Pillars of Investing gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfolios??--without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein provides a distinctive blend of market history, investing theory, and behavioral finance, one designed to help every investor become more self-sufficient and make better-informed investment decisions. The 4 Pillars of Investing explains how any investor can build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on four essential lessons, each building upon the other. Containing all of the tools needed to achieve investing success, without the help of a financial advisor, it presents:
- Practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market
- Exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor
- An easy-to-understand explanation of risk and reward in the capital markets
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154 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
Essential guide for investors
In the introduction to his book, "The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio," Dr. William Bernstein states that the "competent investor never stops learning." Yet, because the world of investing can be such a...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Technical but provides an understanding behind indexing
Book goes through the history of investing. It gets quite technical and at times very difficult to follow, only really in one chapter where he discusses what affects stock prices. And rereading it helps out. As the author suggests though, just...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 06, 2008 Type: User Review |
Make This Book Your Foundation of Investing Wisdom
Bernstein has endowed individual investors with the most important fundamentals of investing, weaving together the theory, history, psychology and business of investing into a gem of understandable language for mere mortals. I recommend this book...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Must Read for Investors
I have read a ton of financial books and this has been one of my favorites. What's great about it is that it's not just "another" book that says all of the sames things ... in fact, it is very different from many books that you'll read on this...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
A must read...bottomline.
Dr.Bernstein's writing style is easy to read and understand, it's well written and I could'nt put the book down after reading the first couple of pages...this book is all you need to know as far as I'am concerned, if you want the honest truth...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Already a classic. You must read it!
This book is very readable, and perhaps after you read it very common sense. However, there is so much financial porn in the marketplace that common sense is not very common.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 09, 2007 Type: User Review |
A Classic - A "Must Read" for every investor
Bernstein skillfully lays out the case he brilliantly makes for index based investing, taking a "Rip Van Winkle Investing Approach" - and above all, resisting the marketing efforts of the Wall Street types.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
This book will set you free!
Bernstein shows how to set up low-maintenance portfolios that will outperform actively managed portfolios over the long run. He gives all the hows and whys behind a few simple, and inescapably logical concepts that will "bullet-proof" your...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 24, 2007 Type: User Review |
A Must Read!
One of the best books I have ever read on investing. I have been recommending it to everyone I know.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 23, 2007 Type: User Review |
Can't give this book enough stars
I wish every investor would read this book. Well, maybe not because I feel like I have a leg up on every other investor who believes he can time the market, get rich quick, or knows where the market is heading (well, after reading this book...
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