May 21st, 2012
Review of my book on the Daily Reckoning
A review of my book on the Daily Reckoning. 350,000 readers. Review is here
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January 20th, 2012
Great Review of My Book by Chris Mayer at Agora Financial
Chris Mayer, managing editor at Agora Financial and author of Mayer’s Special Situations, reviewed my book. Really dead-on accurate I thought. I am reading his book Invest Like a Deal Maker.
The review is reproduced below with his permission:
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The Prince of Deals
Prince Alwaleed is one of the world’s greatest investors. Born in 1955, he started out as an investor in the late 1970s by opening a small office on a side street in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He had $30,000. By 1988, Alwaleed was the subject of a Forbes profile. He was 33.
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August 12th, 2011
Book featured in August 2011 issue of Traders
A quick review and feature in the August 2011 issue of Traders. The link is here and the re-pasted text below.
What Would Ben Graham Do Now? A New Value Investing Playbook For A Global Age
(298 pages, $29.99 hardcover, 2011, ISBN 978-0-13-217323-0) by Jeffrey Towson, published by Pearson Education as FT Press.
Intelligent investors have long built wealth by applying Benjamin Graham’s classic value investing principles. The arrival of a new global investment terrain is creating both historical challenges and opportunities for value investors. This work shows how to uncover unprecedented value opportunities in today’s wildly mispriced new global marketplace. It shows how value investors and others can use a value-added approach to extend their investment strategies. The result is a practical investment playbook for a global age, identifying today’s best opportunities, preparing you for massive market shifts that are just beginning to emerge. It adapts and extends Graham’s classic value principles, takes advantage of the biases and mispricings, details the strategies of the new global tycoons, and presents a comprehensive value investing playbook for investors looking to go global.
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July 5th, 2011
Podcast – “How Saudi Prince Waleed Invested Globally and Grew $30k to $22B” by Tradestreaming.com
You can go to the Tradestreaming link to hear the audio.
The Tradestreaming Introduction is pasted in below. Note: in the audio my title was said to be Chief Investment Officer which is not correct. This correction is also noted below in the text and on their site.
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Saudi’s Prince Waleed took $30k and investing globally, turned it into $22 billion — all with staff of only 2 or 3.
He was able to accomplish this by applying a framework to invest globally. Like Buffett, Waleed is a value investor. But the similarities end there — Waleed is a deal maker, on the prowl to see where he can add value and how.
In this podcast, we’re joined by Jeff Towson, who was Head of Direct Investments Middle East/North Africa and Asia Pacific for Waleed** for almost 10 years. He’s written a new book describing the Waleed model,What Would Ben Graham Do Now: A New Value Investing Playbook for a Global Age. He explores the essential question of our day: how does a foreigner properly invest in emerging markets?
In today’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio, we discuss:
- ways global value investing differs from what Warren Buffett did so well
- how Waleed and others like him find and invest in value in inherently chaotic environments
- why global investing is a hybrid of investment banker, business development exec and investing
- what geographies Towson is looking at now for their investment potential
** In the audio of this program, I mistakenly refer to Towson as Waleed’s Chief Investment Officer. His correct title was Head of Direct Investments Middle East/North Africa and Asia Pacific.
July 1st, 2011
My Book Just Hit #2 on Inc. Magazine’s Best Seller List
My book is #2 as of July 1, 2011 on the Inc. Magazine best seller list. The link is here.
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June 30th, 2011
My Book Just Hit #3 on USA TODAY Money Best Seller List
My book is #3 as of June 26, 2011 on the USA TODAY Money best seller list. Link is here.
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June 25th, 2011
33. “A brilliant book” – Review of Book by C. Oliver
The below is reprinted from C. Oliver on Amazon.
Informative, June 24, 2011
Value investing has taken a hit, many people watching their good money disappear with buy and hold have become disillusioned, either by getting out of the market completely, or trying to trade their way back to a fortune. I have had success as a trader, and I have a portfolio of investments. I believe in the viability of buy and hold just as much as I believe in the viability of a good trading plan. What Would Ben Graham Do Now, is a brilliant book that analyzes a new decentralized world of investment. No longer are you stuck trying to find dirt cheap companies in America, but all around the world, opportunities are arising to invest unlike anything in the past hundred years.
This book brilliantly, in my opinion, highlights the ins and outs of the new economiy and and the global age, with an investment playbook that is both insightful and interesting. I highly recommend this book.
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May 10th, 2011
29. Review of My Book by Ted Stamas
The following review was posted by Ted Stamas at Seekingalpha on April 29, 2011.
Money talks. So does What Would Ben Graham Do Now? A New Value Investing Playbook for a Global Age, by Jeffrey Towson, published by FT Press. Scheduled to be released in early June (I received an advance copy), the book really differentiates itself from the pack of finance and investing books I’ve read of late. Full of fresh ideas, this insightful and informative publication is not what it seems on the surface.
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