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• Business - Personal Finance
• Title: DIY Portfolio Management
• Author: Lyle Wilkinson
• Rating: Excellent!
• Publisher: Selact Publishing
• Web Page: www.diyportfoliomanagement.com
• Reviewed by: Mai Fei Kinney

I've always thought that the difference between a "How to" book and a textbook was that the "How to" book was more often the easier book to digest. Not so in this case. This book takes on Portfolio Management like a tiger tearing into raw meat.

If you love with manipulating your financial funds to the degree that you have a stock ticker on your PC at all times, then by God, this is the book for you! This book drives down into the statistical analysis of why the popular methodologies work and then - without any ado - provides you with a straight forward, no frills equation for calculating the method yourself. I was impressed with that part of the book the most. A straight answer is usually the one thing that textbooks lack.

If you're looking for pictures and 1,2,3's for a DIY environment, then this book isn't it. Given the volume and depth of information presented, I'd be tempted to categorize this as a textbook. If you are serious about managing your portfolio, then this is the textbook you're looking for."