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The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
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The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

by Benjamin Graham
March 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
640 pages
16h 2m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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Investment Merits of Common Stocks

In our first edition (1949) we found it necessary at this point to insert a long exposition of the case for including a substantial common-stock component in all investment portfolios.* Common stocks were generally viewed as highly speculative and therefore unsafe; they had declined fairly substantially from the high levels of 1946, but instead of attracting investors to them because of their reasonable prices, this fall had had the opposite effect of undermining confidence in equity securities. We have commented on the converse situation that has developed in the ensuing 20 years, whereby the big advance in stock prices made them appear safe and profitable ...

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