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No comments about The Millionaires' Club: How to Start and Run Your Own Investment Club and Make Your Money Grow.

1 comments about Profiting from IPO's and Small Cap Stocks.

1. I learned how valuable time is , by wasting it reading a long useless book like this!

2 comments about Investment Clubs: A Team Approach to the Stock Market.

1. Shaw devises club accounting reports, stock study worksheets and investing approaches for clubs in this simplified how-to guide. Shaw provides some interesting checklists and step-by-step illustrations of club operations and investment decision-making.



2. Katheryn Shaw details the day-to-day (or month-to-month) operations of an investment club. An ideal starting point for anyone considering this approach to investing and an invaluble tool for an ongoing club.

5 comments about The $100,000 Club: How to Make a Six-Figure Income.

1. Show up, work hard, dress well, take initiative, revere motherhood, etc. Nothing even remotely new or innovative in terms of career management or organizational behavior. Take a pass on this and try golf lessons instead...



2. I disagree with some of the other reviewers who said this tape is total trash. It is good for young people just getting into the career market, because it gives practical information to help make sure you are even aiming in the right direction for your goals. It helps give a broad perspective on your career as a whole, not "I just graduated now I have to use this degree somehow." Overall, I say it is a decent book, but I can do without her philosophical digressions at the beginning of the tape about how society tries to make us think money is evil.



3. I am a real person, and a simple reader. Mentioning the above is simply to claim the authenticity of my review, not some made up or conspired opinion or expression, but a true and genuine review. This is one of the greatest and best books I ever read by far, especially in it's own category. What it's contents cover and how the whole book is put together is a marvelous and tremendous work. I am only about half way through the book and it's definitely my mental coach, encouragement, inspiration, motivation, and secret weapon of all things, already. Some or perhaps many of the ideas in the book are not new inventions, but how the author was able to put everything together in such an excellently constructed order, along with her own professional knowledge, and wisdom surely amazes me. Never before have I heard of D. A. Benton But I have now a great admiration for her and started search all the books she's written. I wouldn't want my competitors at work know about this book but worse is to see all the disgusting reviews written by people who do not have an appreciation for great work. And others being misleaded by those reviews. That's the reason I had to write this. That's how good this book is.



4. The dust cover claims this book is worth its weight in gold. Its last chapter, which outlines the 20 steps to earning $100,000 a year, could well make it so. If you buy the book, read the final chapter first. D.A. Benton’s 20 steps are clear and easy to follow. Once you know them, the rest of the book provides excellent supporting information. Benton shows examples of how specific individuals (many of them high-profile celebrities and athletes) used each step to achieve success. This book offers no get-rich-quick schemes. The author advocates a logical, methodical approach to making $100,000 per year. She is so confident that she makes a guarantee: If you put maximum effort into all 20 steps, you will become a member of the $100,000 Club. We [...] recommend this book to anyone interested in making a six-figure income.



5. This is the way it is done. Debra Benton did it...so can we.

3 comments about The Beardstown Ladies' Guide to Smart Spending for Big Savings: How to Save for a Rainy Day Without Sacrificing Your Lifestyle.

1. OK, Now that it is official that they didn't beat the market, they have reversed gears and try to address the savings part. Nothing to differentiate this from a zillion other such books. I should grant them one thing, they know how to market their name to catch on the gullible.



2. This book has a lot of every day hints that are timeless.



3. This book has a wealth of information on how to save money.
   It is directed to middle age and elderly people. For instance,
   the book provides car buying checklists, brand name equivalents,
   repair or replace decision-making criteria, insulation R value
   statistics and the priority pyramid . The priority pyramid
   ranks spending categories by order of importance. There is a
   section of mail order drugs and comparative pricing to local
   pharmacies. This book is worth the price of admission in every
   respect. It will help you in your personal planning and
   routine purchasing decisions.

4 comments about The Beardstown Ladies' Pocketbook Guide to Picking Stocks.

1. A funny thing happened in the bookstore today. I picked up theBeardstown Ladies' Pocketbook Guide to Picking Stocks and read theback cover to see if it was worthwhile reading or buying the book. "My goodness", I thought, "23.4% these ladies know how to kick A..." Then I found a white card inside where they sheepishly confessed that it was really only 9.1%. This confirmed by an article found on the CNN financial network. It seems these financial geniuses are "mathematically challenged". If these ladies and the publisher had any integrity, they would recall all the books, have an educated, certified competent financial analyst review and redo all their calculations and republish an HONEST copy.



2. For anyone who is interested in investing in stocks for long-term growth, this is an excellent, well-laid out book for analyzing companies, and helping you determine where to start looking. It is not for the lazy investor who wants to make a bundle on a quick "tip" or magical formulas. If you're willing to take the time to really research a company before you invest in it, this book lays out the steps and the methodology in a very clear, step-by-step methodolgy. It's not the "how-to-make a million overnight" type of book, but rather, how to sensibly invest your money for the long-term in the stock market. I highly recommend it.



3. From 1975, when a "full-service" broker sold some loser stocks to me, all the way up to January 2000, I thought the stock market was an unknowable morass of pitfalls for the "ordinary" working person. Then I read The Beardstown Ladies Pocket-Book Guide to Picking Stocks. Their straightforward style encouraged me to study further, then to join the National Association of Investment Clubs (as an individual member), and to start studying, picking, and buying stocks through an on-line discount broker. Thanks to the Beardstown Ladies, I now believe it will be possible for me to someday retire.

   I recommend this book without reservation. I just wish I had found a book like this 35 years ago. And I wish I could locate some more copies of the book, since mine is getting dog-eared and worn because I return to it constantly as a REFERENCE, of all things! Also I want some copies for gifts to younger family members.

   Buy this book. It explains common-stock investing in a very clear and engaging style.




4. With the well known clerical errors in computing their investment returns, why would anyone waste any time, not to mention money, on these "unlucky" ladies advice.Try instead, any book by Larry Swedroe, John Bowen, William Bernstein, or Charles Ellis.

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5 comments about Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers (Selection of Money Book Club).

1. A terrific book, full of conservative, sensible investment advice, on both growth and value investing on ordinary shares. The overall information provides the need for a complete review of many small investors speculative/gambling approach to investing, and replacement with a conservative yet successful trading plan.



2. Peter Tanous features interviews with 18 individuals he identifies as top, common stock investment consultants - or "gurus." His choices are based on his work as a consultant identifying investment advisers for corporations. The consultants he selected for this book represent the major stock investing approaches as growth, value or momentum investors. The interview format lets them speak for themselves. He briefly introduces the book with a primer on basic investment terms and principles, and a summary of major themes. We at getAbstract find the range of views shown very helpful, but note that the book suffers from overwriting and a lack of focus and editing. Some tightening would help highlight the main points in the long interviews. The introduction and conclusion are long and general, and a clearer, more detailed summary would be very welcome. Yet, the book offers a lot of information for the average serious investor, much of it straight from the mouths of some very important horses.



3. Most of the interviews in this book appear to have been conducted in 1996.

   I checked as many of the managers/funds as I could on Morningstar (some of managers have private equity funds, and therefore are not available on Morningstar), and it appears that most of the managers described here have underperformed the market since 1996. Some of the funds (e.g. Linder) have gone out of business or dramatically restructured due to poor performace. Since one of the major themes of the book is to pit the efficient market theory/passive manager (Fama/French/DFA) types against active managers, and the author seems to side with active managers over passive, this is very amusing. It seems that time has proven the contrary of the point the author chose to make.




4. Tanous's effort is far superior to the other collections of interviews with money managers. Most books of this sub-genre fall into two categories, depending on the author. The first type of author is usually a journalist who knows little about the disciplines of stock picking and running investment funds, and you are usually hard pressed to find any new insight in their books, because they don't know how to ask their subjects the really insightful questions. The second type, which I'll call the John Train style, has a sophisticated investor/fund consultant doing the interviews, and can often produce real insight from the interviewees. The problem with many of these books, and Train's in particular, is that the author is often not trying to interview the successful money managers. Instead, authors like Train are often trying to play gotcha! with their interviewees, subjecting them to asinine questions and frequently diverging from the topics that made you buy their book in the first place. The Money Masters by Train is so full of political tangents and Train's forcing his opinion on the likes of Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett that I've wanted to scream at him at some points.

   In contrast, Tanous knows how to ask questions that are of interest to professional and serious amateur investors, and he knows how to stay on topic. He does ask every interviewee about the efficient market hypothesis, but that's a theme of his book and can be excused. What you get from Tanous is an interviewer who knows how to ask really penetrating, really revealing questions of the world's best money managers, and the humility to realize that his readers don't want to know what he, Tanous, thinks, but what his interviewees think! What's more, he managed to get interviews with at least two money managers--Bruce Sherman of Private Capital Management and Scott Sterling Johnston of Sterling Johnston Asset Management--that have excellent track records but who speak very, very rarely to the press. There is real value to Tanous's book, and I'm a better investor for having read it. Serious investors should still read Train's books for their revealing interviews with Buffett, Templeton, Lynch and others, but in Tanous's book, you have all the strengths of the Train books without any of the that author's obvious, glaring shortcomings as a writer and interviewer.




5. provokes thinking about investment opportunities all around you