Download or read book The Big Secret for the Small Investor written by Joel Greenblatt and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let a top hedge fund manager, Columbia business school professor, former Fortune 500 chairman and New York Times bestselling author take you on a journey that will reveal the Big Secret for both individual and professional investors. Based on path-breaking new research, find out how anyone can beat the market, the index funds and the experts by following a new approach that relies on the principles of value investing, common sense and quantitative discipline. Along the way, learn where "value" comes from, how markets work, and what really happens on Wall Street. By journey's end, small investors (and even not-so-small investors) will have found their way to some excellent new investment choices.