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Beyond Wall Street - The Art of Investing (4-Video Set)
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Product Details
- Starring: Ève Angeli, Yann Moix, Michel Leeb, Jane Bryant Quinn Andrew Tobias
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- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 0794054577839
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- Format: NTSC
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- Label: Pbs Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Pbs Home Video
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- Release Date: 1997-01-13
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- Studio: Pbs Home Video
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- Title: Beyond Wall Street - The Art of Investing (4-Video Set)
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- UPC: 794054577839
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Product Description: These eight programs (on four videotapes) from the PBS series Beyond Wall Street: The Art of Investing provide an engaging overview of investing strategies. Hosted by financial journalists Andrew Tobias and Jane Bryant Quinn, the programs generally involve a visit with one of the foremost practitioners of a particular investing approach. For instance, the first video features an interview with a notable growth investor, Foster Friess, and also an outstanding value investor, John Neff. The idea of finding someone who personifies the subject matter works well, as the interviews can often focus on real-life examples. Such "war stories" are not only entertaining, but they take what could be, in the wrong hands, a very dry subject and make it both informative and entertaining for the viewer. Besides growth and value investing, other topics covered include picking stocks by crunching numbers, the value of index investing, the pros and cons of emerging markets, a primer on the bond market and fixed-income investing, a look at asset allocation, and some important lessons in managing investment risk. These programs are hardly an inclusive course on investing, but any beginning investor would benefit from watching them, and even those who think they know their stuff can learn some of the finer points from the pros who appear. --Robert J. McNamara
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Customer Reviews
Watch Don't Own
I disagree with the viewer who wrote that Jane and I are morons, but do agree with him that, at least for most people interested in investing, this is 8 hours worth watching (I found the investors we interviewed fascinating) but not ordinarily worth spending a hundred bucks to own.
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Worth watching, but not worth owning
While this series does contain some informative interviews with some very interesting people (Foster Friess, John Neff, Peter Bernstein, and others), the whole thing feels like a late night infomercial. The hosts Andrew Tobias and Jane Bryant Quinn are annoying, and frankly come across as morons. In one episode, we learn that 80% of mutual funds don't beat the market average, (any Motley Fool knows that) yet Jane tells us later she is a mutual fund investor. Then Andrew quips that she's really investing her husbands money. In another episode we learn that bonds can be as risky (or riskier) than stocks, and that it's a myth that they are safer than stocks. Later our hosts advise us that we should diversify into bonds to lower our risk. The hosts don't cut through the confusion to make concepts easier to understand, they add to the chaos and come across as confused themselves. As for the series usefulness, it's not a bad introduction to general investment concepts but certainly won't give you many new insights, or teach you how to invest. It's just a very general overview of different types of investing strategies, and a shallow introduction to various concepts (how bonds work, emerging markets, black box investing) Unfortunatley, it doesn't really teach you much "art" at all, and doesn't match up to the usual PBS quality I've come to expect. If you've already done your homework on investment terminology and basics, you may find some parts useful. Seasoned investors may enjoy seeing interviews with the superstars of the financial world that you normally only read about. For the new investor, start somewhere else.
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Not Worth it!
As a financial professional, those videos are big disappointment to me. It didn¡¯t offer any insightful ideas, but instead that contents offered in the videos are comment knowledge in term finance. I wouldn¡¯t recommend this video to anyone who has finance background.
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