Beyond Wall Street (C)

Beyond Wall Street compares and contrasts the strategies of eight of the world's leading investors through substantive and compelling tales of what brought them to their successes. These prominent figures reveal, to the expert and novice investor alike, how brilliant investing is a feat of creativity, composition, and conviction. Foster Friess founded the Brandywine Fund in 1985 and has managed it to a stunning 560.4% return on investment and an annual average of 18.3%. Steward for more than 30 years of the hugely successful Windsor Fund, now retired John Neff scored in value investing by buying downtrodden stocks with confidence that the pendulum will swing back for sound companies that have fallen from grace. Bringing a fervor to quantitative analysis, Barr Rosenberg's computer-driven strategies are firmly planted in traditional, fundamental stock analysis. President of the $13 billion Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Mark Mobius is deemed the "Indiana Jones" of investing. Winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, William Sharpe has added fresh dimensions to the notions of risk and reward. Sharpe's strategy of indexing outperforms most professional money managers most of the time. William Gross is one of the visionaries who helped haul bond trading out of the basement vault. He launched - and still runs - Pacific Investment Management's bond trading operation, which commands close to one percent of the $11 trillion U.S. bond market. CEO of Brinson Partners, Gary Brinson manages $120 billion for blue chip clients who seek optimal returns across a global gamut of asset classes. Author and investment advisor Peter Bernstein analyzes financial systems, from the progress of risk measurementto the latest developments in modern portfolio theory and behavioral finance.