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You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager—filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you'll need to become a stock market genius.

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Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he's going to show you how to do it, too. You're about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss—uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including:

* Spin-offs

* Restructurings

* Merger Securities

* Rights Offerings

* Recapitalizations

* Bankruptcies

* Risk Arbitrage

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 285 pages

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