John Neff on Investing

John Neff on Investing
By:John Neff,S. L. Mintz
Published on 2001-04-13 by University of Texas Press



John Neff is a life-long contrarian, proving time-and-again overthe past three decades that bucking the system can pay off big.During his illustrious career as a money manager, Neff flew in theface of conventional wisdom by consistently passing over the biggrowth stocks of the moment, in favor of inexpensive, underperforming ones-and he usually won. During his thirty-one years asportfolio manager for Vanguard's Windsor and Gemini II Funds, hebeat the market twenty-two times, through every imaginable stockmarket climate, while posting a 57-fold increase in an initialstake. When Windsor closed its doors to new investors in 1986, itwas the largest mutual fund in the United States. Now retired from mutual fund management, Neff is finally ready toshare the investment strategies that earned him internationalrecognition as the |investor's investor|, and made him the one towhom other money managers come to manage their money. In John Neffon Investing, Neff delineates, for the first time, the principlesof his phenomenally successful low p/e approach to investing, andhe describes the strategies, techniques, and investment decisionsthat earned him a place alongside Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch inthe pantheon of modern investment wizards. Packed with solid advice and guidance for anyone who aspires tousing Neff's unique brand of value investing, John Neff onInvesting offers invaluable lessons on using price-earnings ratiosas a yardstick, to zeroing in on undervalued stocks, interpretingearnings histories and anticipating new market climates. Anarrative of Neff's early days-My Road to Windsor-reveals theextraordinary mindset and humble circumstances that shaped hiswinning investment philosophy. By reproducing excerpts from hispersonal investment diaries, this book offers a unique opportunityto watch Neff in action over the years. A faithful,quarter-in-quarter-out chronicle of a life on Wall Street, thediaries provide unprecedented insights into the thinking behindsome of his best (and worst) investment decisions, while tracingthe evolution of his innovative investment style. The first book to fully reveal the long-heralded investmentstrategies of a Wall Street genius, John Neff on Investing is mustreading for investors, brokers, traders, and bankers of everykind. JOHN NEFF, until his retirement in 1995, was Senior Vice Presidentand Managing Partner of the Wellington Management Company, theWindsor Fund's investment advisor. S.L. MINTZ, is New York Bureau Chief of CFO Magazine, a publicationof the Economist Group dedicated to the latest financial thinkingand how it is being implemented in today's markets. His other booksinclude Beyond Wall Street (Wiley, 1998) and Five EminentContrarians.

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