March 29th, 2010 
David Hill 
Product Description
There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world…. More >>
The Little Book of Value Investing
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This book is well writen and understandable but the proposed method is so complex you need a team of resarchers to make it work.
Don’t bother!
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Rating: 2 / 5
The concepts in the book are all standard value investing fare found anywhere else. I can’t really see much that is new here. If it was the first of its kind maybe Id give it 5 stars but its not.
Rating: 3 / 5
As reviewed and posted on my blog [...] on 9/16/06:
The Little Book of Value Investing does a fine job explaining the way to find stock values and beat the market. Bargain hunters look for attractively low P/E ratios and/or book values. Although the Value Investing book doesn’t offer the simplicity of the first book’s companion website, it still presents a fairly simple approach to follow.
When I read The Little Book that Beats the Market I was so sold on the strategy that I switched brokers and dumped a lot of tech stocks I had been sitting on for the past 6 years. That was a couple of months ago and I haven’t taken the time to reinvest yet…until yesterday. I finally forged ahead and used the first book’s website to identify some good candidates. I then did some quick research on their history and products so that I’d get to know them better. Finally, I reviewed some of the ratios and other metrics outlined in the Value Investing book and made my first two new investments. I plan to pick 8-10 additional companies this way over the next few weeks. Here’s to hoping my picks bear fruit!
Rating: 5 / 5
1. 4 stars is slightly above average but not overtly hyped as the best.
2. Book offers valuable concepts that should be taken to heart for any investor.
3. Book really offers no major details or plans on value investing. Just concepts, philosophy, etc. But for the price it’s ok.
For more recommended books, see my other reviews.
Rating: 4 / 5
I agree with the other reviewers that this book is an outstanding essay for those who want to learn how to select stocks for a value portfolio. Where we differ is that for the typical investor he does not have the resources to build a properly diversified portfolio of value stocks – either financial or mental resources. For the average investor to avoid uncompensated risk one must use a mutual fund that has a sufficient number of issues to virtually eliminate uncompensated risk. To accomplish this an index fund is the only practical solution. Index funds and Exchange Traded Funds are available for this purpose. We call the excess return over and above the market return the value premium. Value stocks do provide returns in excess of broad market returns but in order to have adequate diversification you must assemble several hundred issues well beyond the resources of the average investor. For the period 1964 to 2000 large value stocks outperformed large cap growth stocks 14.5% to 11.1% and for small cap stocks 16.6% to 12%. These are hugh differences.
I can offer a solution to this problem. I want to recommend to you a book titled How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 different stocks for $1000 – Pay no Commission This book is a must for those wanting to find out about indexing (passive investing) and why it is the superior method for the small investor (and big one too). This book is an outstanding guide to personal investing. It will be useful to all investors from novices to highly the highly experienced. This book prepares the reader to approach investing from the standpoint of the underlying science. It is the antithesis of a ‘get rich quick scheme’.
All aspects of Modern Portfolio Theory and passive (index) investing are explained in a through and easily understood manner. The aspect I like most is that as well as a solid theoretical foundation the book is very practical and shows the reader how to create (and more importantly) and manage over time a successful portfolio. This is a great book- for the beginning investor, it’s a great place to start and for the experienced investor there are many valuable suggestions.
It’s a shame to think of how much money investors have lost “investing” in the stock market over the years. I wish I had read this little book years ago. The chapter on automatic investing recommends a number of portfolios that follow modern portfolio theory and adjust risk as you age without any effort on the part of the reader at all. Had this book been written years ago and had I followed its directions I would be rich today of that I am certain. Nevertheless I will pursue one of the portfolios recommended and stick to my chosen asset plan. The Investor’s Cookbook
How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 Different Stocks-Pay no Commission
Rating: 4 / 5
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