Summary of Peter Lynch,John Rothchild's Beating the Street

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Peter Lynch,John Rothchild's Beating the Street in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies—and their stocks—perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669343035

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Insights on Peter Lynch and John Rothchild's Beating the Street

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The decline in the amateur stockpicker is largely due to the fact that many of them have lost money in the market, and have no desire to continue investing.

#2

The popularity of the do it yourself approach to investing has diminished the role of the traditional stockbroker. This, in turn, has led to a decrease in demand for professional stock advice.

#3

The top picks of an energetic band of seventh-grade portfolio managers who attended the St. Agnes School in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1990, outperformed the SP 500 by a margin of 70 percent over a two-year period.

#4

The St. Agnes School for Girls, where the author was a teacher, follows the same investment strategy as the St. Agnes mutual fund.

#5

The four-stock portfolio of the St. Agnes School in Salisbury, North Carolina, outperformed the SP 500 by a significant margin.

#6

In 1991, a group of students at one of Terence Kiernan’s investing classes pooled their money into a mutual fund and bet on the success of certain companies. The fund made money on Coca-Cola, Texaco, and Raytheon.

#7

The students at St. Agnes gave the author some advice on how to invest, such as investing in a company that has room to grow, has a good dividend, and is in a solid industry.

#8

Ms. Morrissey continues to promote amateur stockpicking, not only with her students but with her fellow teachers as well.

#9

Investment clubs, like the National Association of Investors Corporation, help individuals beat the market averages by following a set investing schedule.

#10

The National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC) is a group of investors that publishes a magazine called Better Investing that gives advice on how to find good growth stocks.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The author participates in the Barron's Roundtable, a yearly gathering of financial pundits, every January in New York. The event takes place in a conference room at the Dow Jones complex overlooking the right bank of the Hudson River.

#2

The author