The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street

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		The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street
		The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street

基本信息·出版社：Wiley
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2003年12月
·ISBN：047147441X
·条形码：9780471474418
·版本：1
·装帧：平装
·外文书名：戴维斯王朝: 50年成功投资华尔街

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A half–century of Wall Street history as seen through the lives of its most illustrious family
This compelling new narrative from bestselling author John Rothchild tells the story of three generations of the legendary Davis family, who rank among the most successful investors in the history of the Street. With a novelist′s wit and eye for telling detail, Rothchild chronicles the financial escapades of this eccentric, pioneering clan, providing a vivid portrait of fifty years of Wall Street history along the way. Rothchild shadows the Davis family′s holdings through two lengthy bull markets, two savage and seven mild bear markets, one crash, and twenty–five corrections and, in the process, reveals the strategies behind the family′s uncanny ability to consistently beat the markets.
The Davis Dynasty begins in 1947, the year Shelby Davis quit his job as a state bureaucrat and, armed with $50,000 of his wife′s money, took the plunge into stock investing. By the time he died in 1994, he had multiplied his wife′s original stake 8,000 times! The story continues with his son, Shelby, who established one of the most successful funds of the past thirty years. The final characters in this enthralling family saga are grandsons Chris and Andrew. Both surrendered to the Davis family passion for investing and both went on to earn reputations as investment luminaries in their own right.
John Rothchild (Miami Beach, FL) co–wrote the blockbusters One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street, and Learn to Earn with Peter Lynch. He is the author of Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets (Wiley: 0–471–34882–1), A Fool and His Money (Wiley: 0–471–25138–0), and Going for Broke. He has written for Harper′s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and other leading magazines and he has appeared on the Today Show, the Nightly Business Report, and CNBC.
作者简介 JOHN ROTHCHILD co–wrote the blockbusters One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street, and Learn to Earn (all with Peter Lynch). He is the sole author of The Bear Book, A Fool and His Money, and Going for Broke. A former editor of the Washington Monthly and Fortune magazine, Rothchild has written for Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and other magazines. He has appeared on the Today show, the Nightly Business Report, and CNBC.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
In 1988, Shelby Davis was listed as one of the 400 richest Americans by Forbes magazine, with assets of $427 million, which had grown from $50,000 in 40 years of investing in insurance company stocks. The same year, his son, also named Shelby Davis, made the Forbes Honor Roll for reliable mutual fund investments. Four years later, members of the third generation, Andrew and Chris Davis, joined the family business: Chris working for his father, managing mutual funds, while Andrew managed his grandfather's personal holdings. The elder Shelby Davis, who died in 1994, emerges as the most intriguing character in this family saga: before turning to investing in midlife, he was an author and political player; in his later years he became a prominent philanthropist and ambassador to Switzerland. He embroiled the family in tabloid headlines in the early 1960s by attempting to give his daughter's trust fund to Princeton University without telling her. Unfortunately, Rothchild was unable to get much insight into these characters either through documentation or interviews. The younger Davises cooperated with the book, but lead less broad and colorful lives than their progenitor. The result is a gentle and superficial family saga interspersed with common sense investment wisdom applied to 50 years of financial history. (Sept.)Forecast: With all due respect to Shelby Davis, he is a B-list investment celebrity: Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and other A-listers command more attention for espousing similar principles. This book will appeal mainly to those who have already read the classic great investor biographies (including the same author's bestselling One Up on Wall Street, about Peter Lynch).

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal
Books on successful Wall Street investors have become common currency in publishing. Here, Rothchild (One Up On Wall Street) examines the legendary Shelby Davis, who founded Davis Selected Advisors in 1947. Rothchild chronicles how over the years Davis, his son, and his grandchildren have created a literal "family of funds" generating enormous returns for their investors. Davis and his progeny were somewhat conservative in their investment philosophies. They chose insurance companies, banks, and other financial institutions to invest in for the long-term, and the returns were nothing short of astonishing. Unfortunately, much of the historical eyewitness accounts provided here seem leaden. This, combined with an almost pedestrian writing style and the author's often fawning attitude toward the Davis family, makes for a rather lightweight work. Readers wishing to learn about the investing philosophy of another mutual fund founder should consider John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years (LJ 10/1/00) as he recounts his involvement in the Vanguard mutual fund family. Not an essential purchase. Richard Drezen, Washington Post, New York City Bureau
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
In 1988, Shelby Davis was listed as one of the 400 richest Americans by Forbes magazine, with assets of $427 million, which had grown from $50,000 in 40 years of investing in insurance company stocks. The same year, his son, also named Shelby Davis, made the Forbes Honor Roll for reliable mutual fund investments. Four years later, members of the third generation, Andrew and Chris Davis, joined the family business: Chris working for his father, managing mutual funds, while Andrew managed his grandfather's personal holdings. The elder Shelby Davis, who died in 1994, emerges as the most intriguing character in this family saga: before turning to investing in midlife, he was an author and political player; in his later years he became a prominent philanthropist and ambassador to Switzerland. He embroiled the family in tabloid headlines in the early 1960s by attempting to give his daughter's trust fund to Princeton University without telling her. Unfortunately, Rothchild was unable to get much insight into these characters either through documentation or interviews. The younger Davises cooperated with the book, but lead less broad and colorful lives than their progenitor. The result is a gentle and superficial family saga interspersed with common sense investment wisdom applied to 50 years of financial history. (Sept.)Forecast: With all due respect to Shelby Davis, he is a B-list investment celebrity: Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and other A-listers command more attention for espousing similar principles. This book will appeal mainly to those who have already read the classic great investor biographies (including the same author's bestselling One Up on Wall Street, about Peter Lynch).

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal
Books on successful Wall Street investors have become common currency in publishing. Here, Rothchild (One Up On Wall Street) examines the legendary Shelby Davis, who founded Davis Selected Advisors in 1947. Rothchild chronicles how over the years Davis, his son, and his grandchildren have created a literal "family of funds" generating enormous returns for their investors. Davis and his progeny were somewhat conservative in their investment philosophies. They chose insurance companies, banks, and other financial institutions to invest in for the long-term, and the returns were nothing short of astonishing. Unfortunately, much of the historical eyewitness accounts provided here seem leaden. This, combined with an almost pedestrian writing style and the author's often fawning attitude toward the Davis family, makes for a rather lightweight work. Readers wishing to learn about the investing philosophy of another mutual fund founder should consider John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years (LJ 10/1/00) as he recounts his involvement in the Vanguard mutual fund family. Not an essential purchase. Richard Drezen, Washington Post, New York City Bureau
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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