Value Investing: A Balanced Approach (Frontiers in Finance Series) by Martin J. Whitman
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Book Summary Author: Martin J. Whitman Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2000-09-22 ISBN: 0471398101 Number of pages: 288 Publisher: Wiley |
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Book Reviews of the Value Investing: A Balanced Approach (Frontiers in Finance Series)
Customer Review: The Successor to Graham & Dodd? Please.
Summary: 2 Stars
I eagerly anticipated reading this so-called successor to Graham & Dodd's Security Analysis after Marty Whitman pronounced it as such last December in an interview with Outstanding Investor Digest. To the serious value investor counting on Whitman to deliver on a standard set by Graham & Dodd, this book is as satisfying as a completed sneeze.Hmmm, a latter-day Graham & Dodd, written in less than half the writing space...How does he pull it off?! The reason Whitman's book is so brief is the author devotes most of his effort to delivering platitudes; there are few examples, and fewer satisfying ones. It is disturbing that a value investor-professor touting a 'balanced approach' would skimp on text-balancing details like examples, especially since this book is written by a seasoned analyst presumed to be sensitive to the complexity --and thus the potential for confusion-- in the practice of his craft.
This is one field where less is not more. While I would dearly love to find a replacement to my increasingly dated Graham & Dodd, Whitman's book is a displacement. It is a strangely assuming, hugely disappointing work in a field terribly in need of a successor to the less and less approachable standard text, Graham & Dodd's Security Analysis.