Portfolio Management vs The Dao of Capital: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Investments, Business

Portfolio Management Scott D. Stewart, Christopher D. Piros & Jeffrey C. Heisler · 2019 720 pages · ≈ 13 h 20 m · Moderate

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The Dao of Capital Mark Spitznagel & Ron Paul · 2013 ★★★★☆ 3.9 368 pages · ≈ 6 h 49 m · Challenging

"As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, "one gains by losing and loses by gaining." This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive,…

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The verdict

The Dao of Capital is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 13 for Portfolio Management.

How to choose

Want a one-evening read? The Dao of Capital ≈ 6h vs 13h for Portfolio Management New to the genre? Portfolio Management Moderate vs Challenging for The Dao of Capital

Scores by source

	Portfolio Management	The Dao of Capital
Goodreads	—	3.9 (1519)
Hardcover	—	1.0 (2)
Apple Books	—	4.0 (20)

Reception

	Portfolio Management	The Dao of Capital
Ratings	—	1519
Editions	3	5
Film adaptations	1	—
Want to read	—	3885
Pages	720	368

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Reception

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