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Title: Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing by Charles D. Ellis, John Lescault ISBN: 1-932378-26-X Publisher: American Media International Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (21 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Pithy but repetitive
Comment: As someone just beginning to read books about finance and investment, I found this book interesting but repetitive. Perhaps it is important to keep drumming in the same messages: (1) the odds of beating the market by timing purchases of individual stocks are very low; (2) the asset allocation of your portfolio has more impact on your ultimate success than which stocks (mutual funds, whatever) you choose. While I did find the arguments compelling, I also heard them the first time and didn't need to see them again on every page. Fortunately, the book is short (certainly price per page quite high), therefore the repetition comes to an end before too long.

Rating: 3
Summary: Too much fluff, but a solid point
Comment: This seems to be a book made out of an old but important magazine article. The target audience shifts between chapters, pages are left blank and unnecessary space is spent on charts. However, a useful analogy and deflating historical analysis make the point cleanly that passive investing in stock/bond funds is preferable to active mutual funds. And don't be tempted by picking stocks yourself.

Better values in the "passive" school of investing lie elsewhere, such as in Malkiel's "random walk" book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing, Rich Book
Comment: Contrary to popular belief, this is not a book for insitutional investors...or individual investors. This is a book for every type of investor out there, and those who aim to correct their mistakes and start indexing their portfolio, because it's nearly impossible to beat the market, especially on a consistent basis. Ellis is one of Wall Street's great minds and his strong, fundmanetal-based ideas are relayed into this book. This is truly an investment classic for every serious investor.

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