Beating the Odds
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Beating the Odds

Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies

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eBook - ePub

Beating the Odds

Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies

About this book

Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management.

Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780470936627
eBook ISBN
9781118061329
Edition
1
Subtopic
Finance

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Disclaimer
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1 Who Says Talk Is Cheap?
  8. Chapter 2 The Big Three to the Rescue
  9. Chapter 3 The Prince of Apopka
  10. Chapter 4 Death and a Kidnapping
  11. Chapter 5 Magnificent, Mysterious Lady B.
  12. Chapter 6 Engineering a New Existence
  13. Chapter 7 Europe on Five Dollars a Day
  14. Chapter 8 “Ed, We’re Already Doing Okay!”
  15. Chapter 9 A Famished Lion in a Butcher Shop
  16. Chapter 10 The Height of Duplicity and Betrayal?
  17. Chapter 11 A Window on the Top 1 Percent
  18. Chapter 12 Pulling the Trigger on Investments
  19. Chapter 13 Swimming with Sharks
  20. Chapter 14 Aren’t You That Financial Guy From TV?
  21. Chapter 15 Walking a Racial Tightrope
  22. Chapter 16 “Go For It, Dad!”
  23. Chapter 17 Everyone’s Medical Nightmare
  24. Chapter 18 My Biggest Business Mistake
  25. Chapter 19 A Horror Movie without Sound
  26. Chapter 20 The Art and Science of Stock Picking
  27. Chapter 21 “God, I Owe You One!”
  28. Chapter 22 Impressive Progress, Baffling Lethargy
  29. Chapter 23 To Heir Is Human
  30. Chapter 24 Anyone Care for a Can of New Coke?
  31. Epilogue
  32. Index
  33. Plates