Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment Annotated Edition

“Swensen is the best. Always a pioneer, his new book presents an approach to investing that is both brilliant and practical.”
— Barton Biggs, former Chief Global Strategist, Morgan Stanley

“A legendary institutional investor reveals the conflicts of interest that induce most financial services companies to provide inadequate products for the individual investor. Swensen’s wise solution: Low cost, tax efficient, market-mimicking funds available either through Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or from not-for-profit mutual fund companies. Unconventional Success does for the individual investor what Swensen’s Pioneering Portfolio Management did for the institutional investor.”
— Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street

“David Swensen is one of today’s best endowment managers, if not the best. Unconventional Success is a perfect summary of what is wrong with a very important industry. This book should lead the reader to better investment decisions.”
— Michael F. Price, Managing Partner, MFP Investors

“Unfortunately, at the bottom of our industry — money management — there is a rather thick layer of muck, and Swensen’s Unconventional Success rakes through this muck in spectacular fashion and great detail. It is the truth, the whole truth, and the very ugly truth. If you want to avoid the snares that lurk in money management, and save yourself lots of money, you must read it.”
— Jeremy Grantham, Chairman of GMO