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More Than You Know

Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places

Columbia UP, 2006 más...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

This book began as a series of 50 short essays Michael J. Mauboussin wrote for investors. He advocates using a multidisciplinary perspective to try to understand how markets behave. By its nature as a collection of essays, this book is capricious and desultory, jumping around from subject to subject. The essays do not necessarily relate to each other, but that has some advantages, given the author's belief in multiple analyses. His book is not the place to seek a sound, consistently argued theory about why the market does what it does. On the contrary, Mauboussin repeatedly contends that no one really understands why the market acts the way it acts. In fact, he says, attempts to explain it often rely on patterns that aren't really there. getAbstract highly recommends this book as an excellent antidote for the disease of being overconfident about the wisdom of prevailing financial and economic opinions.

Take-Aways

  • Financial theory is inadequate to explain, or even approximate, market behavior.
  • Investors, especially professional investors, should emphasize process rather than outcome. A good outcome does not justify a bad process.
  • As difficult as it is, some investors consistently outperform the market. Sustained, consistent outperformance does indicate superior skill. It isn't just random.

About the Author

Michael J. Mauboussin is the chief investment strategist at a major capital management company and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Business School.


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