The Single Best Investment

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Summary: One of the best investment books so far!
Review: "Single Best Investment" is an intelligent, easy to understand and yet a rather entertaining book that should be of equal interest to a wide spectrum of investors, from beginners to professionals. Based on a common sense approach of time value and compounding, it guides investors toward creating portfolios that will result in consistent returns without playing the market. "Single Best Investment" is one of the few proven and effective strategies that make sense to investors around the world and will never go out of style.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best investment books so far!
Review: The author tells you everything you could possibly want to know about his investment strategy of buying growth stocks with rising dividends. If you just want to know the heart of the strategy, start with Chapter 10, The Rules. The other chapters have a summary at the end. This strategy is not for your typical system player / day trader, it's for a young person with a low risk tolerance.

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Summary: simply a SMART strategy
Review: this is a great book. O'Higgin's book on buying the Dogs of the Dow was a good book, and it made sense: buy quality when it is cheap. Well, Miller's book makes sense, too. In fact, it makes so much sense, that you wonder "why, of course, that's the way to make money". This book reminds you how important dividends are (some 70% of stocks' returns over the past 50 years), and how significant compounding can be. ("yeah, yeah, yeah" you say, but how about 20+% annual return per year on an investment in a solid, low risk company? Miller tells you how.) Though this is not the kind of book that appeals to day-traders, or "hot stock" investors, it is the kind of book that should appeal to smart investors.

Rating:
Summary: simply a SMART strategy
Review: this is a great book. O'Higgin's book on buying the Dogs of the Dow was a good book, and it made sense: buy quality when it is cheap. Well, Miller's book makes sense, too. In fact, it makes so much sense, that you wonder "why, of course, that's the way to make money". This book reminds you how important dividends are (some 70% of stocks' returns over the past 50 years), and how significant compounding can be. ("yeah, yeah, yeah" you say, but how about 20+% annual return per year on an investment in a solid, low risk company? Miller tells you how.) Though this is not the kind of book that appeals to day-traders, or "hot stock" investors, it is the kind of book that should appeal to smart investors.

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Summary: A great investment book.
Review: This is an important but easy-to read book that argues that the single best investment is in stocks with rising dividends. It hits a layer of real bedrock, providing a long-term fundamental perspective that is a great antidote to the information overload that is typical of investment information today. Applying this approach is a low risk way to create a "compounding machine" that relentlessly grinds out income and capital appreciation over the long-term. It is a book both for both beginning as well as experienced investors, and is well-written and organized with excellent summaries at the end of each chapter.

This is a really good book!