Harvesting Profits on Wall Street

Book excerpt: Ron Muhlenkamp began investing in the stock market in 1968, just as the bull market of the 1960s was about to run headlong into the bear market of 1973?74 and the stagflation of the 1970s. Decades worth of investment knowledge and conventional wisdom came crashing down, and everything that people thought they knew about stocks and investing quit working. So he began his career by starting from scratch. He studied academic theory and conventional wisdom, but also started asking some fundamental questions. How do you figure out what a company is worth, and how do you know what to pay for it in the stock market? When it comes to investing in stocks and bonds, what works and why? The answers are in Harvesting Profits for Wall Street.