Figuring It Out: Sixty Years of Answering Investor s Most Important Questions

One of the great joys of a professional life, as physicist Richard Feynman once explained, is the joy of "figuring it out." Of course, figuring out investing questions is not as important and certainly not as enduring as figuring out the basic laws of physics, but it certainly is, has been, and likely will be as fascinating--and more fun for readers concerned about our investments. (Hint: that means all of us.)

Readers leafing through Charley Ellis' masterworks will enjoy being reminded of some of the great controversies that animated the world of professional investing over the past sixty years from a keen observer in the investment profession. In short, Ellis lived through those controversies and played his part in figuring them out, observing the remarkable minds that solve the most vexing questions in investments.

When Ellis left Harvard Business School with an MBA