Product Description

A brand new edition of this classic bestseller. Jim Slater makes available to the investor - whether the owner of only a few shares or an experienced investment manager with a large portfolio - the secrets of his success. Central to his strategy is The Zulu Principle, the benefits of homing in on a relatively narrow area. Deftly blending anecdote and analysis, Jim Slater gives valuable selective criteria for buying dynamic growth shares, turnarounds, cyclicals, shells and leading shares. He also covers many other vitally relevant aspects of investment such as creative accounting, portfolio management, overseas markets and the investor's relationship with his or her broker. From The Zulu Principle you will learn exactly when to buy shares and, even more important, when to sell - in essence, how to to make 'extraordinary profits from ordinary shares'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6935 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 322 pages

Review
"Jim Slater was, for a time, the single most powerful influence on the business scene. Twenty years on, he has refined, honed and distilled his investment thoughts into a book that is vintage Slater: innovative, imaginative, original and fresh with sophisticated investment methods made to seem simple and glaringly obvious - if only you'd thought of them before." --Ivan Fallon, Sunday Times

"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." --Sir James Goldsmith

"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." --Lord Hanson

"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." --Sir James Goldsmith

"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." --Lord Hanson

"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." --Sir James Goldsmith

"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." --Lord Hanson

"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." --Sir James Goldsmith

"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." --Lord Hanson

"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." --Sir James Goldsmith

"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." --Lord Hanson

About the Author
Jim Slater trained as an accountant. He first became interested in investment in the sixties, while a director at a British Leyland subsidiary. After publicising his methods via a column in the Sunday Times, he launched the investment conglomerate Slater Walker, which he chaired until 1973. The company was known for its aggressive acquisitions in every area from banking to property. It collapsed in the 1973-4 recession, leaving Slater bankrupt to the tune of about £4m in today's money. He fought his way back to prosperity through private property deals and writing for small investors. In 1990, he published his main work, The Zulu Principle. This popularised the use of a financial ratio devised in America, known as the PEG, or Price:Earnings Growth Ratio. He has since devised a monthly publication called Company REFS (Really Essential Financial Statistics), which helps investors to apply his system by listing PEGs and other key ratios and information on all UK companies. Now living in Surrey, but far from retired, Slater is still very active in educating investors through his books and lectures. He is also a major shareholder in a variety of small companies, and puts a good deal of money into charitable causes and sports sponsorships.

Customer Reviews

Updated?
This is an excellent book and a must-read for stock market investors. However, the "update" is limited and disappointing if you already own the original edition. BUT if you have never read The Zulu Principle and are serious about stock market investment, BUY THIS BOOK!

Classic investment strategy
I've recently read this book and found it excellent.

Firstly, if you're new to investing, I wouldn't start here; start with something like Robbie Burns' Naked trader which'll tell you how to invest, what it's all about ect.

This book appears to be more aimed at someone with a bit of experience, an understanding of how the markets work & financial knowledge (being able to read balance sheets, p&l accounts etc). I've recently finished a business degree including the likes of corporate finance and found this book fairly easy to understand, although required a lot of attention and time to digest the information and appreciate a newcomer to the market may be a little overwhelmed.

I found the ideas and the general 'zulu' principle of investing in smaller companies with growth potential an excellent add on to my current understanding and strategy and feel much more confident in choosing the right companies to invest in and, although I currently mostly focus on commodity related companies I think I'll be more specific in looking for companies with growth potential and dedicated a portion of my portfolio to small companies, not necessarily commodity related.

It's hard to review this book due to the amount of information in it but if you're interested in growing your capital rather than just plonking your money in a dividend payer and not looking back then I think this is essential reading.

Novice Investor
I find this book an excellent introduction to investing. It sets out guidelines logically and comes with plenty of examples. The chapter layout makes you think before moving on to the next chapter. A very good book from which to start.