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The definitive guide to value investing and long-term stock market strategy, featuring updated commentary from a renowned financial journalist and preserving the wisdom of Benjamin Graham's timeless principles.

Howard Marks shares the key principles of successful investing, warning against pitfalls that erode capital and careers. Drawing on his own memos, he blends memoir and creed to guide readers through today’s volatile markets.

A clear, practical guide that applies the Dhandho value‑investment framework to the stock market, showing how to allocate capital and evaluate opportunities with proven techniques like the Kelly formula.

A comprehensive guide to long‑term stock investing that blends historical market data with current global trends, offering strategies for portfolio construction, index selection, and behavioral risk management.

The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders. Now, in this substantially revised and updated edition of his 1986 business classic, Creating Shareholder Value, Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools needed to generate superior returns. After a decade of downsizings frequently blamed on shareholder value decision making, this book presents a new and in-depth assessment of the rationale for shareholder value.

Joel Greenblatt, a hedge‑fund manager and Columbia Business School professor, breaks down how ordinary investors can consistently outperform the market, with an updated afterword covering the recent financial crisis.

"An accessible, and intuitive, guide to stock valuation. Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is to buy, sell, or hold. In The Little Book of Valuation, expert Aswath Damodaran explains the techniques in language that any investors can understand, so you can make better investment decisions when reviewing stock research reports and engaging in independent efforts to value and pick stocks. Page by page, Damodaran distills the fundamentals of valuation, without glossing over or ignoring key concepts, and develops models that you can easily understand and use. Along the way, he covers various valuation approaches from intrinsic or discounted cash flow valuation and multiples or relative valuation to some elements of real option valuation. Includes case studies and examples that will help build your valuation skills. Written by Aswath Damodaran, one of today's most respected valuation experts. Includes an accompanying iPhone application (iVal) that makes the lessons of the book immediately useable. Written with the individual investor in mind, this reliable guide will not only help you value a company quickly, but will also help you make sense of valuations done by others or found in comprehensive equity research reports"--