mandag 12. januar 2009

The real Warren Buffett

This book written by James O`Loughlin is a good book for the advanced buffettologist. It gives you some alternative views on Warren Buffetts capital managing skills. The book focuses solely on Buffetts style of managing both capital and people on a cognitive level. It portrays Buffetts cognitive abilities as his biggest reason for success. This book will not teach you how to calculate ROE, profit margins etc. It will however broaden your understanding of how Warren Buffett`s mind works when it comes to leadership and capital management.

How to pick stocks like Warren Buffett

This book written by Timothy Vick was the first book I ever read about Warren Buffett. This is one of the best books written about Buffett. It`s logical and well organized. This book teaches you how to analyze companies like Buffett and gives you a range of investment tools to help you in the jungle of mostly crappy investments. It is also a great chapter about risk arbitrage, one of Warren Buffett`s biggest secrets and a cornerstone of his investment method. This book works well for both beginners and experts alike. This is a strong buy

The four filters invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

This book, written by Bud Labitan gives the reader a rather unique and new way of looking at what have been called behavioral finance. Its an easy to read book but you should definitely have some Warren Buffett background before venturing on to this book. It takes you trough what Labitan calls filters, which gives the investor a tool to "filter" his ideas trough. If it goes trough its a go for Charlie. A good book for the already well read Buffetologists out there.
PS: The Growth\Discount model in the back is by itself worth the buy

The winning habits of Warren Buffett and George Soros

This book written by Mark Tier is maybe the worst book I have ever read about Warren Buffett. In Mark Tier`s defense one can say that it probably was not in his intent to write so much about Warren Buffett, but to compare the the two and their so called "Investment habits". This book will probably not give you any satisfaction, so steer clear.

The Warren Buffett Way

This book, written by Robert G. Hagstrom is a great beginners book but features nothing that Warren Buffett hasn`t already said in his annual letters. If you are a Buffett novice, this book will show you how Warren Buffett got rich and which companies made him rich. It also gives you an introduction to Buffetts mentors, Benjamin Graham, Philip Fisher, John Burr Williams and Charles Munger. However, I did not feel that this book helped me understand Warren Buffetts investment secrets or methods. Hagstrom tries in his own way to explain using investing guidelines and tenets, but I comes uot short compared to other books written about Warren Buffett.

Warren Buffett Book

There has been written many books about Warren Buffett and his investment strategies. I have read them all. In this blog you will be able to read a review on every book that has been written about Warren Buffett`s strategies and figure out for yourself what books that gives you the most bang for your bucks. In addition I have written about the books of Warren Buffetts mentors, the people that have had the biggest impact on Buffetts investment style.