Gerald M. Loeb (Books)

Gerald M. Loeb Books

Gerald Loeb was a founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co., a renowned Wall Street trader and brokerage firm. Loeb promoted a view of the market as too risky to hold stocks for the long term, contrasting with well-known value investors. He also created the Gerald Loeb Award, given annually for excellence in various categories of financial journalism.

The Battle for Investment Survival

320 pages
12 hours of reading

In The Battle for Investment Survival, the turf is Wall Street, the goal is to preserve your capital at all costs, and to win is to "make a killing without being killed." This memorable classic, originally written in 1935, offers a fresh perspective on investing from times past. The Battle for Investment Survival treats investors to a straightforward account of how to profit-and how to avoid profit loss-in what Loeb would describe as the constant tug-of-war between rising and falling markets. Book jacket.

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