Authors: Peter Lynch, Peter Lynch
ISBN-13: 9780743541893, ISBN-10: 0743541898
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: Abridged
When Peter Lynch Talks
Smart Investors Listen!
As former head of the Magellan Fund, the most successful equity mutual fund in the country when he rain it, as well as current trustee of the Fidelity group of funds - Peter Lynch is THE source for stock and mutual fund investing. In Beating the Street, Lynch's goal is simple: to teach you how to have more money tomorrow than you have today. He believes success depends on an investor's ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow their investments to succeed. Lynch provides sound advice on the following topics:
Offering a one-on-one consultation with one of the most successful stock analysts around,...
Until retiring in 1990, Lynch ( One Up on Wall Street ) was manager of the spectacularly successful Fidelity Magellan Fund. Here he recalls with self-deprecating humor and disarming candor how he went about choosing winning stocks (and missing a few) for the $12 billion fund, which, during one five-year period in the 1980s, earned investors a 300% return. Lynch strongly favors stocks over other investment vehicles but insists that ``investigative'' research into a corporation's prospects, including credit checks and visits to the firm's installations, is essential. ``Focus on companies, not the stocks,'' he stresses, adding that on this basis limited partnerships, banks and even S & Ls can be sound investments. Lynch's reputation and business writer Rothchild's deft touch should yield big sales for this inside story. Major ad/promo; first serial to Money magazine; BOMC and Fortune Book Club alternates; author tour. (Mar.)