Jeeva Ramaswamy - Creating a Portfolio like Warren Buffett: A High Return Investment Strategy

Acknowledgments

I get numerous e-mails and phone calls asking How was the GJ investment fund able to beat the best market index with a wide margin from its inception? and What is the secret behind stock market success? I wrote this book to answer those questions, and more. By simply applying well-known Warren Buffett investment techniques I have learned how to pick stocks and manage a portfolio. All of my ideas are learned from Warren Buffetts teachings.

When I became interested in investing, I was interested in learning from the masters. I started reading Warren Buffetts partnership letters and Berkshire Hathaways annual reports to uncover investment principles. After reading most of the books written about Warren Buffett, I reverse engineered his initial investment decision and learned about investing and practiced thoroughly. That knowledge gave me great returns, and that confidence led me to start investment funds similar to his partnership. Over the last two years I have been able to beat market indexes by the largest of margins and I performed in the top 5 percent of the hedge fund and mutual fund universe. Whenever I make a buy-and-sell decision, I try to think about what Warren Buffett would do and try to use his previous investment decisions as reference points.

I have to thank, specifically, Warren Buffett and his gracious teaching mentality and willingness to spread great investment principles to the investment community through annual reports, TV appearances, interviews, and annual meetings. He has truly given other investors a lot to write about and expand upon. Apart from being a great investor, he is also a great human being in terms of philanthropy and living a simple lifestyle. That makes him my mentor and hero.

Next I would like to thank Peter Lynch and his investment books, for he elaborated thoroughly on his investment experience and his research methods, and that was very useful for me.

I would like to thank John Wiley & Sons Inc. team members Debra Englander (Editorial Director), Kimberly Bernard (Development Editor), and Tula Batanchiev (Editorial Assistant).

I would like to thank my freelance book editor, Bill M. West.

I would like to thank my mom and dad, who taught me the necessity of working hard for success.

I would like to thank my wife, Girija Jothi Arumugam, for supporting all my endeavors. I am still amazed by her financial acumen, the way she handles the home finances, and her clear thinking about planning the future. My life totally changed when I held my baby Harshini. She calls Warren Buffett a Thatha, which means Grandpa in Tamil. She was able to pronounce Peter Lynchs name correctly and identify stock charts correctly at the age of 18 months. It makes me happy to realize that she will one day read this book and learn successful stock market investment techniques.