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Publisher's Summary
The best investment guide money can buy, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, now fully revised and updated.
Today's stock market is not for the faint of heart. At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do? The answer: Turn to Burton G. Malkiel's advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on "tax-loss harvesting", the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and risk parity.
And as always, Malkiel's core insights - on stocks and bonds, as well as real estate investment trusts, home ownership, and tangible assets like gold and collectibles - along with the book's classic life-cycle guide to investing, will help restore confidence and composure to anyone seeking a calm route through today's financial markets.
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- P. Kastenholz
- 06-27-19
Why no pdf of charts???
I'm disappointed that the charts are not available in pdf like many of the other finance books I have listened too.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Cassidy
- 03-15-19
a wonderful update to a classic
the author mentions so many interesting ideas and even though the book is a bit repetitive, the style and jokes make it very readable.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Will
- 05-22-19
Essential for beginning investors
This book is essential for anyone interested in starting to invest. Would make an excellent gift for any new college grad.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- skatensteel
- 10-15-19
Horrible book for Audiobook.
For a person that is trying to learn about the market, this book is extremely difficult to understand by only hearing at it. You need to accompany it with the written version. It has sections when it literally gives you actual math to think about. Extremely misleading, you learn very little like that. Mostly if investing in the market is something you have not done on your own beyond a simple 401K. Extremely disappointed.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Afueramor
- 04-07-19
Boring to listen to
I really did not care for this guy and his voice, he had a smugness to him in a weird style of speaking that I just found a really annoying. I think this actual book has lots of tables and data which again makes listening to not enjoyable.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Max K
- 10-23-19
biased
This book caused more harm than good. Author is presenting his biased opinion, discarding everything else.
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- M ABOU-BEIH
- 08-31-19
A joy to read
Very incormative book and a great joy to listen to. The author did a great job substantiating his point of view with historical encounters and facts from the stock market. I really enjoyed the book.
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- Allyson & Alfredo Gonzalez
- 08-15-19
Informative
So much information. This book helps build a great foundation and ease some nervous about jumping into the market. Great book.
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- volan
- 08-15-19
Excellent investment advice, poor narration
Like the title says, I believe that the advice provided in the book is excellent and practical. The author provides premise, data, and conclusions for his theories based on decades of work.
Unfortunately the narrator did not do the book justice, he has a very steccato style. That takes away from the listening experience.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Bennet Saumer
- 08-14-19
Terrible
It is impossible to understand a single word, terrible voice, even worse when trying to adjust the speed. Terrible product!
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- A. Burhan
- 08-07-19
Thee case for Index tracking
This books content and narration was straightforward to understand and paves the way to get you started on your investment journey. Follow the market, don't try to beat it. I also enjoyed the history of past bubbles and bursts. those who don't learn from the past are destined to repeat it.
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- Some Guy
- 07-20-19
Great introduction for the newbie
A very in depth, but still accessible guide for those new to investing. Makes his point strongly, but always backs this up with research and offers advice on how to reduce risk, if you don't want to follow the main advice on offer.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-19
Great listen
I’ve been a financial advisor for well over a decade and worked with both active and passive managers. This is a fantastic and realistic outlook on investing that everyone should listen too. Parts of the book are only relevant to the USA, but the core message applies to everyone.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- Chris Hall
- 07-18-19
Good beginner book
Those new to shares and investing will likely very a lot out of this book. Those who have read widely on these topics may not find new information here.
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- Tamaine
- 05-01-19
Great book
Everything you ever needed to know about stocks, the stock market indexing and even more
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- Anonymous User
- 04-22-19
Well written, and very informative
The author substantiates his arguments by drawing from examples throughout the history.
The 'average' results from index funds sound rather appealing, given that they beat the returns of actively ma managed funds.