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<p>The story of the Davis dynasty is, in many ways, the story of Wall Street over the last half century. John Rothchild&#146;s sweeping saga chronicles the changing face of Wall Street alongside the financial escapades of one of America&#146;s most successful, yet unheralded investing families. <br>Three generations of the Davis family portfolio&#150;patriarch Shelby Cullom Davis, son Shelby, and grandsons Chris and Andrew&#150;take you through the canyons of Wall Street as they consistently beat the market with a growth-at-a-reasonable price philosophy and a passion for investing. <br>Born into a middle-class family in Peoria, Illinois, Shelby Cullom Davis was more interested in history than finance. That all changed in 1947 when, at age thirty-eight, he left his job as a New York State Insurance Department bureaucrat and plunged into investing using $50,000 of his wife&#146;s money. In the late 1940s, as the Dow reeled at 180 and Wall Street ignored insurance stocks, Davis went with what he knew best and built a dynasty from a plain-vanilla portfolio of insurance stocks. <br>With proven strategies and a frugal spending philosophy, Davis amassed a fortune from the postwar bull mar

Author
Rothchild, John
Publisher
New York: John Wiley & Sons
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780471331780
Subjects
Economics, Finance, Memoir

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