How to Invest

Today, I reviewed a new book on investing for the Wall Street Journal. I've included the first two paragraphs and a link to the full review below.  

Masters of Money

Interviews with some of the world’s most successful investors offer more in the way of biographical interest than practical advice.

The primary attraction of investment books isn’t beautiful prose or a compelling plot. Our relationship with such titles is more transactional: We spend the time and money in hopes of learning something that will help make us better investors. While the literati hobnob at Politics and Prose bookstore, we pick up our new reads at the airport en route to a client meeting in Minneapolis.

The breathless publicity for David Rubenstein’s “How to Invest: Masters on the Craft” promises that the book will “transform the way you approach investing forever.” Yet after reading Mr. Rubenstein’s interviews with some of the most brilliant and successful investors of our generation, I came away with few practical takeaways.