Great Investors: Buffett, Graham, Bolton and Woodford

There are many people who have become rich from investing, but just a few truley great investors in the world who have consistently made profits over a very long periods: Warren Buffett was the richest man in the world as recently as 2008 and still probably the second richest; his UK counterpart, Anthony Bolton recently retired, but had over 25 years of market beating success and has recently come out of retirement to manage funds in China; Neil Woodford is the UK's current value investing guru and Benjamin Graham was the father of value investing Another famous Wall Street investor, Peter Lynch also wrote several essential books and articles on the subject of investing.

The great investors above have written many books and articles or have been written about a lot, but here are a few other great investment and finance writers: Peter Temple who writes for many publications including the Financial Times; Alpesh Patel another prolific writer, with many trading books under his belt and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the writer of the Black Swan book about risk in the financial world (and the real world).

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