The New Buffettology

The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor

Mary Buffett, David Clark

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9780684871745
• eBook ISBN:
  9780743234115
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Investments & Securities

If you read the original Buffettology, you only know half of what you need to effectively apply Warren Buffett's investment strategies.

Published in 1997, the bestselling Buffettology was written specifically for investors in the midst of a long bull market. Since then we've seen the internet bubble burst, the collapse of Enron, and investors scrambling to move their assets—what remains of them—back to the safety of traditional blue chip companies. As price peaks turned into troughs, worried investors wondered if there was any constant in today's volatile market. The answer is yes: Warren Buffett's value investing strategies make money.

The New Buffettology is the first guide to Warren Buffett's selective contrarian investment strategy for exploiting down stocks—a strategy that has made him the nation's second-richest person. Designed to teach investors how to decipher and use financial information the way Buffett himself does, this book guides investors through opportunity-rich bear markets, walking them step-by-step through the equations and formulas Buffett uses to determine what to buy, what to sell—and when. Authors Mary Buffett and David Clark explore Buffett's recent investments in detail, proving time and again that his strategy has earned enormous profits at a time no one expects them to—and with almost zero risk to his capital.

In short, The New Buffettology is an essential companion to the original Buffettology, a road map to investment success in the worst of times.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Colophon
• Also by Mary Buffett and David Clark
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Disclaimer
• Foreword: A Few Personal Things About a Very Private Billionaire
• Introduction: How Warren Buffett Turned $105,000 into $30 Billion
• 1. The Answer to Why Warren Doesn’t Play the Stock Market—and How Not Doing So Has Made Him America’s Number One Investor
• 2. How Warren Makes Good Profits Out of Bad News About a Company
• 3. How Warren Exploits the Market’s Shortsightedness
• 4. How Companies Make Investors Rich: The Interplay Between Profit Margins and Inventory Turnover and How Warren Uses It to His Advantage
• 5. The Hidden Danger: The Type of Business Warren Fears and Avoids
• 6. The Kind of Business Warren Loves: How He Identifies and Isolates the Best Companies to Invest In
• 7. Using Warren’s Investment Methods to Avoid the Next High-Tech Massacre
• 8. Interest Rates and Stock Prices—How Warren Capitalizes on What Others Miss
• 9. Solving the Puzzle of the Bear/Bull Market Cycle and How Warren Uses It to His Advantage
• 10. How Warren Discerns Buying Opportunities Others Miss
• 11. Where Warren Discovers Companies with Hidden Wealth
• 12. Financial Information: Warren’s Secrets for Using the Internet to Beat Wall Street
• 13. Warren’s Checklist for Potential Investments: His Ten Points of Light
• 14. How to Determine When a Privately Held Business Can Be a Bonanza
• 15. Warren’s Secret Formula for Getting Out at the Market Top
• 16. Where Warren Buffett Is Investing Now!
• 17. Stock Arbitrage: Warren’s Best-Kept Secret for Building Wealth
• 18. For the Hard-Core Buffettologist: Warren Buffett’s Mathematical Equations for Uncovering Great Businesses
• 19. Thinking the Way Warren Does: The Case Studies of His Most Recent Investments
• 20. Putting Buffettology to Work for You
• Index