Profiles of investment wizards offer insights on the world of finance and describe specific techniques and experiences. Those profiled represent a variety of investment perspectives, including technology, value, emerging markets, specialty companies, and micro-caps. Their methods are explained and their similarities and differences are clarified. Train is founder of an investment consulting firm, and has written columns for the Wall Street Journal , the Financial Times , and Forbes . A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1989 by Harper & Row, Publishers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John Train founded Train, Smith Investment Counsel and is chairman of Montrose Advisors, both of New York. His bestselling books on investing include The Craft of Investing, The Money Masters, The New Money Masters, and The Midas Touch. He has written several hundred columns for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, Harvard Magazine, The Financial Times, and other publications. He is a part-time director of two independent government agencies reporting directly to Congress and of several emerging market mutual funds. He lives in New York, spends summers in Maine, and travels frequently to Europe, Asia, and South America.