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    Ten Commandments of Investing: Guiding Principles from the Greatest Investment Wizards
    Ten Commandments of Investing: Guiding Principles from the Greatest Investment Wizards
    Ten Commandments of Investing: Guiding Principles from the Greatest Investment Wizards
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    Ten Commandments of Investing: Guiding Principles from the Greatest Investment Wizards

    By San Eng, Tim Eng and Oia Eng

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    What are the secrets of the greatest investors in history – the Investment Wizards? What are the life principles, investment strategies and rules they all follow to profit, year after year, in all economic cycles?

    The Ten Commandments of Investing shares the ten common guiding principles of investing as practiced by the world’s great Investment Wizards. The Ten Commandments of Investing is accessible and applicable to novices and pros alike. Their timeless advice is particularly relevant for investors navigating the post COVID-19 world. Listen to the Investment Wizards! Apply the Ten Commandments to achieve financial freedom through smart investing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMorgan James Publishing
    Release dateNov 3, 2020
    ISBN9781631953200
    Ten Commandments of Investing: Guiding Principles from the Greatest Investment Wizards
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    San Eng

    San Eng is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and educator. He has invested over $500 million in capital including his own 9-figure funds across multiple asset classes across North America, China, and Asia. He has co-founded and led half a dozen ventures raising over $100 million. These initiatives have created thousands of jobs. San is a lifelong learner and teacher, having taught investing at prestigious business schools and via Wizards Institute. He holds a BS Economics and a Portfolio Management certificate from the Wharton School of Business and an EMBA from CEIBS, the top business school in Asia. San currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

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      Ten Commandments of Investing - San Eng

      Ten Commandments of Investing

      NEW YORK

      LONDON • NASHVILLE • MELBOURNE • VANCOUVER

      Ten Commandments of Investing

      Guiding Principles from the Greatest Investment Wizards

      © 2021 San Eng, Tim Eng, Oia Eng

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in New York, New York, by Morgan James Publishing. Morgan James is a trademark of Morgan James, LLC. www.MorganJamesPublishing.com

      ISBN 9781631953194 paperback

      ISBN 9781631953200 eBook

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020945290

      Cover & Interior Design by:

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      DISCLAIMER

      Though the authors made every effort possible to give the readers accurate information throughout the writing process, neither Morgan James Publishing nor the authors assume any responsibility for any errors or changes after publication. The contents of the book are the sole expression of the authors and not of the publisher. No person, company, or any entity compensated the authors or the publisher for mention in this book. The authors, to the best of their knowledge and abilities, believe the information and interpretation provided to be correct and reliable, but the accuracy and correctness believed are not guaranteed in any way. Furthermore, the authors assume no obligation to provide updates to the information provided.

      The authors are not registered financial advisors. The authors are not, in any capacity, providing professional legal, financial, or investment advice. This book mentioned specific company names, asset classes, and investment strategies for informational purposes only, none of which should be deemed as recommendations to the readers. Reading this book does not in any way establish any fiduciary relationship between the authors and the readers, and the readers should always seek out professional advice from registered financial advisors for all financial and investment decisions. The authors do not assume any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such error or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause whatsoever. The readers are responsible for their own choices, actions, and consequences in relation to all investment decisions.

      This book contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. securities legislations. Forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to future asset prices, potential financial crisis, potential economic expansions and contractions, potential for increase or decrease of public debt, the positioning of the authors’ portfolios to capitalize on current and future market conditions and outlooks, competitive uncertainties, and various contingencies. Forward-looking statements are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties out of the control of the authors and publisher, all of which may cause results, performance or achievements that may deviate materially from those expressed or implied thereby, and are developed based on assumptions about such risks, uncertainties, and other factors set out herein. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual future results may vary materially. Accordingly, readers should not rely on forward-looking statements provided and should do their own due diligence when making all investment decisions.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Note from the Authors

      Introduction

      Commandment One: Know Thyself

      Commandment Two: Own Your Space

      Commandment Three: Respect Market Cycles

      Commandment Four: Don’t Be A Dead Fish

      Commandment Five: Seek Religion

      Commandment Six: Be Patient, Be Bold

      Commandment Seven: Marathon the Winners

      Commandment Eight: Diversify…Just Enough

      Commandment Nine: Don’t Lose Money

      Commandment Ten: Mind the Mind

      The Ten Commandments In Practice

      Call To Action

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      About The Authors

      Endnotes

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      We, the authors, are grateful to hundreds of family members, friends, colleagues, and Investment Wizards who contributed their insights and wisdom, and their generous time, support, and patience to help make this book possible. We enjoyed writing this book immensely, having not only learned a lot, but also emerging as wiser investors while making many new friends along the journey.

      Firstly, we would like to thank San’s parents—Oia, Tim, and Chloe’s grandparents—for instilling in all their progeny a respect and love for education and life-long learning. Both grandparents contracted COVID-19 early in 2020 and, sadly, took Grandma from us. Grandpa not only survived but is now in the best shape of his life. We are sad we cannot share this book with the both of them, but we know they are proud of this milestone, particularly Tim and Oia taking co-leads to research and write the book at such young ages. A special thanks also to Oia’s 15-year old sister, Chloe, who created the Wizards logo, the book cover, and all the wonderful portraits of the Wizards and authors in this book. Thank you to Oia’s other sister Bella for her work in producing the wonderful book trailer videos.

      This book would not be possible without the wisdom from the hundreds of Investment Wizards we researched, worked with, and interviewed. For those Wizards we did not meet or interact with directly, we thank them for the generous sharing of their insights and investment advice through their books and podcasts. For the many Wizards we worked with directly, such as Kathy Xu, William Bao Bean, Joelle Faulkner, John Ruffolo, Eva Lau, Dr. Evan Fraser, Bobby Lee, and so on, we thank them for the privilege of doing so, and for their teachings. Still many other Wizards gave generous time to be interviewed for the Wizards Learning Series—thank you, Alvin Wang, Alex Liu, Paula Madison, Brian Leonard, Willie Smith, Logan Freeman, Victor Li, Dan Ives, Caio de Andrade, Kai Wu, Ken Gee, Paul Moore, James Eng, and many others we cannot list due to the publication timing. We appreciate and have captured their insights on the Wizards podcasts, YouTube channel, and website.

      We have a small team of dedicated interns that helped with both the book and the Wizards website. Irene Hung spent countless hours to help create the Wizards site and social media channels from scratch into a thriving, vibrant community of students who are serious about smart investing and financial independence. Colter Shelly helped create and seed much of the quality content for the community.

      We would like to thank author Dan Brown, who gave generous advice and encouragement to help with the direction of this book. Thank you also to David Hancock and his team at Morgan James Publishing for their early interest and confidence in our project.

      Last but not least, too many friends, alumni, and family friends to name generously offered to read manuscript drafts, providing valuable feedback to shape the book. These include alumni friends from the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton, Columbia University, NYU, Shanghai Jiaotong University, CEIBS, Phillips Exeter Academy, Loomis Chaffee, Taipei American School, and more. We also thank many of San’s FF fraternity brothers for their insights and sharing.

      NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS

      We have chosen to use green on our book cover to symbolize vitality, health, growth. In the United States and Western world, green shows money and wealth. The interior of the ebook uses a red accent color giving each Investment Wizard’s a red streak because in many parts of Asia, this color symbolizes luck and prosperity.

      INTRODUCTION

      The Ten Commandments of Investing is the result of a decade-long romance with investing—a labor of love for the authors. We researched the secrets of the world’s top investors, the Investment Wizards, including thousands of books, journals, and research papers. We interviewed hundreds of the brightest macro thinkers and Wizards across the globe. We practiced these investment strategies with our own capital, sustaining many painful losses in our learning journey, but improving our strategies and returns each year.

      This book started as research we compiled for self-use in an unpublished book called The Investors Bible—100+ pages summarizing the wisdom of 55 Investment Wizards. When we shared the Bible with friends and family, most found the book to be a useful, concise reference source to learn what goes on in the minds of the best investors. Many early readers were professional investors who gave practical feedback, and they suggested new books to read and more Wizards to research.

      Three important discoveries led to the creation of this book, the Ten Commandments (or 10Cs). First, we realized that the Wizards share similar investment principles and strategies despite their diverse backgrounds, asset types, and geographies. Second, the initial set of Wizards we studied consisted primarily of older, western white men—not representative of today’s diverse global investment talent and markets. Third, the Wizards sometimes gave seemingly incomplete, outdated, or even contradictory advice. We wanted to give our community of serious investors a powerful yet simple and practical guidebook with consistent, actionable principles they could follow, one that could be applied across global markets, asset classes, and strategies.

      From this in-depth research, a convincing pattern of guiding principles began to emerge. The more Wizards we studied, the more we found that they share common philosophies and principles that made each of them superstars. To be exact, we discovered the Ten Commandments of Investing—a set of 10 guiding principles practiced by the world’s greatest Investment Wizards. The 10Cs are applied by the best investors in human history—across many asset classes and investment strategies, in many geographies over many decades. We believe both professional and non-professional investors will find value in the timeless, proven 10Cs.

      With COVID-19’s lingering impact on the world and our livelihoods, we felt a sense of urgency to improve the book and make it accessible to as many people as possible. Thus, we deepened and accelerated our research to include Wizards from across the globe. We sought to research more female investors, investors of color, and investors focused on alternative asset classes¹ and strategies. Our list of researched Wizards is now nearing 100 and growing. We built a web platform (https://wizards.institute) to publish our learnings, share our interviews

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