Kyle Harrison
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Excess Returns
Excess Returns: A Comparative Study of the Methods of the World's Greatest Investors
- Author
- Frederik Vanhaverbeke
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 360
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Frederik Vanhaverbeke’s comparative study reverse-engineers dozens of top investors from their books, letters and speeches and synthesises what actually recurs — the synthesis layer, worth reading against the primary sources rather than instead of them.
Where I heard about it
- Mohnish Pabrai — on his list of the six books that helped him most in learning to invest, which reached me through a thread by Daniel Mahncke (November 2023).
About this edition
Published by Harriman House; effectively a meta-analysis of the investing canon.
Connections
- Mohnish Pabrai — recommended it
- Value Investing