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Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management. Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

Table of Contents:
Prologue xi Chapter 1 Who Says Talk Is Cheap? 1 Chapter 2 The Big Three to the Rescue 7 Chapter 3 The Prince of Apopka 13 Chapter 4 Death and a Kidnapping 23 Chapter 5 Magnificent, Mysterious Lady B. 33 Chapter 6 Engineering a New Existence 43 Chapter 7 Europe on Five Dollars a Day 51 Chapter 8 “Ed, We’re Already Doing Okay!” 57 Chapter 9 A Famished Lion in a Butcher Shop 69 Chapter 10 The Height of Duplicity and Betrayal? 79 Chapter 11 A Window on the Top 1 Percent 91 Chapter 12 Pulling the Trigger on Investments 105 Chapter 13 Swimming with Sharks 121 Chapter 14 Aren’t You That Financial Guy From TV? 131 Chapter 15 Walking a Racial Tightrope 141 Chapter 16 “Go For It, Dad!” 145 Chapter 17 Everyone’s Medical Nightmare 155 Chapter 18 My Biggest Business Mistake 163 Chapter 19 A Horror Movie without Sound 171 Chapter 20 The Art and Science of Stock Picking 177 Chapter 21 “God, I Owe You One!” 181 Chapter 22 Impressive Progress, Baffling Lethargy 185 Chapter 23 To Heir Is Human 191 Chapter 24 Anyone Care for a Can of New Coke? 197 Epilogue 203 Index 205

About the Author :
EDDIE C. BROWN is founder and President of Brown Capital Management, a Baltimore-based financial services firm that has amassed more than $6 billion under management and is one of the country's oldest African-American-owned investment firms. BLAIR S. WALKER is a former USA Today financial journalist who's an acclaimed novelist, as well as the writer behind Wiley's bestselling Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118061312
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies
  • ISBN-10: 1118061314
  • Publisher Date: 10 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 208


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