The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street - Softcover

Rothchild, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118441826 ISBN 13: 9781118441824

Publisher: Wiley, 2012

Synopsis

A half-century of Wall Street history as seen through the lives of its most illustrious family This compelling new narrative from bestselling author John Rothchild tells the story of three generations of the legendary Davis family, who rank among the most successful investors in the history of the Street. With a novelist's wit and eye for telling detail, Rothchild chronicles the financial escapades of this eccentric, pioneering clan, providing a vivid portrait of fifty years of Wall Street history along the way. Rothchild shadows the Davis family's holdings through two lengthy bull markets, two savage and seven mild bear markets, one crash, and twenty-five corrections and, in the process, reveals the strategies behind the family's uncanny ability to consistently beat the markets. The Davis Dynasty begins in 1947, the year Shelby Davis quit his job as a state bureaucrat and, armed with $50,000 of his wife's money, took the plunge into stock investing. By the time he

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118441826
• ISBN 13: 9781118441824
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320