The Art of Execution

How the World's Best Investors Get It Wrong and Still Make Millions

By: Lee Freeman-Shor

Narrated by: RJ Malyk

Over seven years, 45 of the world's top investors were given between $25 million and $150 million to invest by fund manager Lee Freeman-Shor. His instructions were simple. There was only one rule. They could invest in only their 10 best ideas to make money.

It seemed like a foolproof plan to make a lot of money. What could possibly go wrong? These were some of the greatest minds at work in the markets today - from top European hedge fund managers to Wall Street legends.

But most of the investors' great ideas actually lost money. Shockingly, a toss of a coin would have been a better method of choosing whether or not to invest in a stock.

Nevertheless, despite being wrong most of the time, many of these investors still ended up making a lot of money.

How could they be wrong most of the time and still be profitable?

The answer lay in their hidden habits of execution, which until now have only been guessed at from the outside world.

This audiobook lays bare those secret habits for the first time, explaining them with real-life data, case studies, and stories taken from Freeman-Shor's unique position of managing these investors on a day-to-day basis.

A riveting listen for investors of every level, this audiobook shows you exactly what to do and what not to do when your big idea is losing or winning - and demonstrates conclusively why the most important thing about investing is always the art of execution.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Below expectations

Has some good insights but kind of disappointing. Esp about selling winners too soon. Investing often is more art than science. Author only offered examples when an investor could have realized more gains had he or she not sold winner too soon. But there are ample examples when an investor held on to winners expecting further gains only to see the opposite.

One of the best books on investing

Very important topic for each investor that is not usually discussed in classic investment books

Must listen and understand in full

For the fourth time I listen to it and each time I find it to be inspiring. Of course he will not tell you what to buy tomorrow. But what this book is trying to tell you is, HAVE A PLAN and commit to it.

Massive waste of time

There is absolutely nothing new, interesting or actionable in this book. It is an insult to experienced traders’ time as it just goes over a few corny tropes with zero depth or insight into what improves execution. I was getting impatient how long it took the author to set up some basic concepts before getting to the meat of it. And then I realized, there is no meat at all. This book is 3 hours too long, or 9 hours too short if it were to build on the existing content in any depth at the same pace.

What about for new traders? It is totally useless for them too, there are literally thousands of books that will better help with the executional aspects of trading.

Horrible Read - Do not recommend

From an Equity Analyst perspective it was apparent in the first few minutes of listening to this book that the Author did not "get it." Not sure his background but sounded like he came from the world of pension funds (I have worked on this side as well). Overall, did not get anything out of this book and do not recommend. Lee if you read this - your generalizations do not have any application in the real world, but I'm sure they look good on paper. On top of this AMZN would not let me return.

A bit simplicistic in my opinion

In my opinion this book tries to take few concepts putting them together in a very simplistic way. The problem with that is that the result could be more damaging than good. Would have been better to make a longer book instead and go deeper on some topics.