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Summary: Good for beginners. Overall, a well written book.
Review: This is a well written book on the basics of investing and how it can help you retire not only rich, but sooner. It is especially catered to beginners and tells things in easy to understand terms.I like O'Shaughnessy's style and the practical manner in which he presents things. He gives factual quantitative data for his qualitative reasonings. The drawback, I feel, are some of the strategies. It might not be elementary to test these strategies out. I don't know how reasonable/pratical it is to follow 50 individual stocks. I can barely keep up with 10. Perhaps some additional help in pursuing these areas in a more efficient manner might help. Overall a helpful and well written book. I liked it so much, I refer to O'Shaugnessy in my periodic newsletter, Investment Insider.
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Summary: This is a must read if you ever plan on retiring.
Review: This is an excellent book for anyone that is worried about their retirement and lack of Social Security dependability. He puts his information in easy to understand, "laymans terms," and pretty much spells everything out for us that lack any knowledge of the investment world. Whether you are 25 (as I am) or 45, you MUST read this book. It's never too early; or too late; to do something about your financial future. After reading this book I feel more informed, non-apprehensive, and excited about starting down the road to financial security in retirement. GOOD STUFF!!!!
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Summary: Excellent for the novice saver.
Review: This is really a companion volume to his fantastic "What Works On Wall Street". The style and content are, hoever, more appropriate to the novice saver/investor than for one with experience. The experienced investor is much better off with "What Works....". It is not the run of the mill "How to Make a Million Bucks.." genre so if you are looking for GRQ books, this is not it. In "Retire Rich", J.O. distills much of the wisdom of WWOWS to a form readable by my 20 Year old daughter. I did find a bit disturbing that the methodologies and criteria change from the WWOWS to Retire Rich. I was left with the nagging question, which of the methods (CornerStone Growth, from WWOWS or Reasonable Runaways, form Retire Rich) does he really recommend. The book should have 2 ratings; a 9 for the novice and a 5-6 for the experienced investor.
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