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Loading... Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investorby Seth A. Klarman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman, Its an amazing book, written in simple words which touches the heart and the mind at the same stroke. For Long term Investors and for Value guys i feel this book is must read. Its just not about "Margin of Safety" in buying of any business, but its also talks a lot about the psychology of Mr. Market and people playing different roles with Mr. Market. The book is so simpl written that reading once would make it like a cake walk, but accepting it has a habit on regular basis would reuqire you to keep reading it. I Recommend to Investors or traders or any business man to do read this book. no reviews | add a review
The disciplined pursuit of bargains makes value investing very much a risk-averse approach. The greatest challenge for value investors is maintaining the required discipline. Being a value investor usually means standing apart from the crowd, challenging conventional wisdom, and opposing the prevailing investment winds. It can be a very lonely undertaking. A value investor may experience poor, even horrendous, performance compared with that of other investors or the market as a whole during prolonged periods of market overvaluation. Yet over the long run the value approach works so successfully that few, if any, advocates of the philosophy ever abandon it. - Author. No library descriptions found. |
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Klarman is different from Buffett in that he follows Graham's philosophy in a much stricter way, and does not hestitate to hold securities for a short time. Klarman sounds like a strict school teacher giving a lecture, and because of that, this book was not particularly fun to read. His clipped prose does contain less fluff than writing by Lynch, which is an advantage.
Other reviewers mentioned that they liked the book as a condensed version of security analysis/the intelligent investor. These classics by Benjamin Graham might be hard to understand for a contemporary audience because of their old-fashioned language. ( )