From May 1977 to May 1990, he was the portfolio manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund - which rose 28-fold per share for the best performing fund in the world. In May 1977, Magellan was only $20 million in size. By the time Mr. Lynch retired in 1990, it was over $14 billion and had over a million shareholders, making it the largest equity fund. Peter Lynch with John … [Read more...]
Selected videos
- Crisis: 1929 Crash, 1992 Black Wednesday, 1998 Collapse of LTCM, 2008 GFC
- Superinvestors
- How the Stock Market Works (1952 cartoon)
- Everything you need to know about finance and investing
- Value Investing
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
- A Variant View on Indexing and Passive Investing
Joel Greenblatt
Joel Greenblatt is the founder of Gotham Capital, a investment partnership that achieved 40% annualized returns for twenty years after its founding in 1985. He is a professor on he adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School, the Chief Strategist for Formulat Investing, the former chairman of the board of a Fortune 500 company, and author of You Can Be a Stock Market Genius … [Read more...]
David Dreman
David Dreman is regarded as the dean of contrarians by many on Wall Street and in the national media. Dreman is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Dreman Value Management, L.L.C., a firm that pioneered contrarian strategies on the Street and manages more than 5 billion dollars of individual and institutional funds. The author of the critically acclaimed Psychology and the … [Read more...]
2008 Financial Crisis
If there is one video you should see, it's the Bird and Fortune brilliant satirical video on the investment banking community. The set is completed by the 4-part Meltdown series, and the highly rated Overdose documentary. … [Read more...]
1998 Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management
BBC2 Documentary on how these Nobel prize winners lost $4.6 billion in under 4 months and needed a bailout by 16 banks! … [Read more...]
1992 Black Wednesday
On Black Wednesday, the British government was forced to withdraw the pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. This resulted in a $1 billion profit by George Soros who's fame skyrocked due to his large short. The BBC produced a documentary on the event. … [Read more...]
1929 Crash
Videos on the 1929 Great Depression and Stock Market Crash. A 7-episode series and a BBC documentary. … [Read more...]
