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Review title: "New and improved"?
Product review: So, this "new edition" basically amounts to an excellent, 2010, fourteen-page postscript tacked onto a verbatim reprint of the original 2002 edition? Hmmm. Savvy investor that he is, ol' Bill doubtless relishes reaping a whopping return on a relatively wee investment of (fresh) human capital. Shrewd! ;-)In any case, I separately relished Bernstein's 2009 "Investor's Manifesto"--which (as the author himself essentially concedes in its preface) is likely a better choice for lay, beginning investors because it minimizes (or "segregates") the "unnecessary complexity" of this "2002" book's sundry "tables, graphs and examples."That said, there's certainly enough textual subject matter here NOT included in "The Investor's Manifesto" to warrant your perusing "The Four Pillars of Investing" too. Perhaps you should check out both books via your nearest public library before deciding which one(s) merit permanent inclusion on your personal bookshelf.
