A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton Gordon Malkiel

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - Business & Economics - 414 pages

A Random Walk Down Wall Street is well established as a staple of the business shelf, the first book any investor should read before taking the plunge and starting a portfolio. With its life-cycle guide to investing, it matches the needs of investors at any age bracket. Malkiel shows how to analyze the potential returns, not only for stocks and bonds, but for the full range of investment opportunities, from money-market accounts and real estate investment trusts to insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets such as gold and collectibles. Whether you want to brief yourself on the ways of the market before talking to a broker or follow Malkiel's easy steps to managing your own portfolio, this books remains the best investing guide money can buy.

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We make this a recommended reading to MBA students and to all our friends who do not have a good understanding of financial markets. This book is definitely EXCELLENT.

A random walk down Wall Street: the time-tested strategy for successful investing

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Why would anyone want to invest in the stock market today? Malkiel (economics, Princeton) was trying to answer that very question when he first published this book in 1973. Over the years, the work ...

Contents

• I: 15
• II: 19
• III: 21
• IV: 23
• V: 24
• VI: 26
• VII: 28
• VIII: 29
• IX: 30
• X: 33
• XI: 34
• XII: 35
• XIII: 38
• XIV: 44
• XV: 51
• XVI: 52
• XVII: 53
• XVIII: 57
• XIX: 64
• XX: 68
• XXI: 71
• XXIII: 72
• XXIV: 74
• XXV: 76
• XXVI: 77
• XXVII: 82
• XXVIII: 84
• XXIX: 87
• XXX: 90
• XXXI: 92
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• XXXV: 101
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• XXXVII: 105
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• XXXIX: 113
• XL: 116
• XLI: 118
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• XLV: 126
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• XLVII: 132
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• L: 136
• LI: 140
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• LIII: 145
• LIV: 147
• LV: 148
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• LXV: 159
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• LXX: 166
• LXXI: 169
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• LXXV: 176
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• LXXVII: 178
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• LXXXI: 186
• LXXXII: 192
• LXXXIII: 193
• LXXXIV: 196
• LXXXV: 198
• LXXXVI: 201
• LXXXVII: 203
• LXXXVIII: 204
• LXXXIX: 205
• XCI: 208
• XCII: 210
• XCIII: 214
• XCIV: 222
• XCV: 223
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• XCVII: 231
• XCVIII: 234
• XCIX: 236
• C: 240
• CI: 242
• CII: 244
• CIII: 246
• CV: 247
• CVII: 248
• CVIII: 249
• CIX: 250
• CXI: 252
• CXII: 254
• CXIII: 255
• CXIV: 259
• CXV: 261
• CXVII: 263
• CXVIII: 264
• CXX: 267
• CXXII: 275
• CXXIII: 277
• CXXIV: 278
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• CXXVI: 287
• CXXVIII: 288
• CXXIX: 290
• CXXX: 291
• CXXXI: 292
• CXXXII: 293
• CXXXIII: 294
• CXXXIV: 296
• CXXXV: 297
• CXXXVII: 299
• CXXXVIII: 300
• CXXXIX: 301
• CXL: 303
• CXLI: 304
• CXLII: 305
• CXLIII: 306
• CXLIV: 308
• CXLV: 311
• CXLVI: 312
• CXLVII: 313
• CXLVIII: 314
• CXLIX: 319
• CL: 320
• CLI: 322
• CLII: 326
• CLIII: 328
• CLIV: 333
• CLV: 334
• CLVII: 335
• CLVIII: 338
• CLIX: 342
• CLX: 344
• CLXII: 345
• CLXIII: 348
• CLXIV: 349
• CLXV: 354
• CLXVI: 355
• CLXVII: 357
• CLXVIII: 360
• CLXIX: 363
• CLXX: 364
• CLXXI: 368
• CLXXII: 369
• CLXXIII: 370
• CLXXV: 372
• CLXXVI: 374
• CLXXVII: 375
• CLXXVIII: 378
• CLXXX: 379
• CLXXXI: 380
• CLXXXII: 383
• CLXXXIII: 385
• CLXXXIV: 387
• CLXXXV: 397

About the author

Burton Gordon Malkiel is an economics professor at Princeton University. He has written A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing and assisted in the development of the book, Earn More (Sleep Better): The Index Fund Solution, written by Richard E. Evans.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing
• Author: Burton Gordon Malkiel
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
• ISBN: 0393057828, 9780393057829
• Length: 414 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General