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Description of Contrarian Investment Strategies

David Dreman's name is synonymous with the term 'contrarian investing', and his contrarian strategies have been proven winners year after year. Now Dreman offers four all-new contrarian investment tactics that are sure to deliver high-percentage returns, regardless of the size of your portfolio. These tactics have resulted in Dreman's High Return Equity Fund being the leader since its inception in 1988. Dreman reveals a proven, systematic,and safe way to beat the market by buying stocks of good companies when they are currently out of favour. At the heart of this book is a fundamental psychological insight: investors overact. Dreman demonstrates how investors consistently overvalue the so-called 'best' stocks and undervalue the so-called 'worst' stocks, and how earnings and other surprises affect the best and worst stocks in opposite ways. Since surprises are a way of life in the market, Dreman shows how to profit from these surprises which his ingenious new techniques, most of which have been developed in the nineties.
Based on cutting-edge research and irrefutable statistics, David Dreman's revolutionary techniques will benefit everyone with an interest in the investment field, both professional and layperson.

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Title Information

ISBN:

9780684813509

Pages:

465 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

10834

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Published:

05/10/1999

Edition:

1st Edition

Press and Industry Reviews

'David Dreman has written one of those rare, original books on the market that appear every generation or so. Powerful, profound, and extremely well documented, it provides totally new strategies for investing in the 1990s and beyond.'
- Fortune magazine

'There are relatively few good money managers or good writers on investment. David Dreman is both. This is a great book for all investors, laymen and professionals alike.'
- Michael Lipper, Lipper Analytical Services, Inc.

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About David N. Dreman

David Dreman is the founder and chairman of Dreman Value Management L.L.C. in New York Red Bank, New Jersey, a firm which currently manages over 4 billion dollars of individual and institutional funds.

Contents of Contrarian Investment Strategies

Introduction

Part I: Why Current methods Don't Work
1. The Sure Thing Almost Nobody Plays
2. From Technical Analysis to Astrology
3. Bigger Game Ahead

Part II: The Expert Way to Lose Your Savings
4. Dangerous Forecasts
5. Would You Play a 1 in 50 Billion Shot?
6. Nasty Surprises

Part III: The World of Contrarian Investing
7. Contrarian Investing Strategies
8. Boosting Portfolio Profits
9. A New, Powerful Contrarian Approach
10. Knowing Your Market Odds
11. Profiting from investor Overreaction

Part IV: Investing in the 21st Century
12. Crisis Investing
13. An Investment for All Seasons
14. What is Risk?
15. Small Stocks, NASDAQ, and Other Market Pitfalls

Part V: Psychology and Markets
16. The Zany World of Rationality
17. Beyond Efficient Markets

Appendix A: Modern Portfolio Theory
Appendix B: Contrarian Investment Rules
Appendix C: Glossary of Terms

Notes
Index

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