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October 2007

100 Secret Strategies for Successful Investing

by The Investor on October 30, 2007

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21rxl2qtcwl_aa_sl160_.jpgRichard Farleigh has made a lot of money via the markets – tens of millions, maybe hundreds. This book doesn’t give a precise number, though we do learn that the Australian investor’s first ambition was to be a bushranger like Ned Kelly. (Think highwayman Dick Turpin with a bucket on his head. Not so far removed from some institutional investors, a cynic might suggest…)

Farleigh has also had two recent doses of TV fame – briefly as a moneyman from Monaco in Trouble at the Top, a business show that focused on the Home House members’ club in London he helped set up, and via a stint on the thinking man’s X Factor, BBC2’s Dragon’s Den.

In the modern world, of course, the TV outings outweigh self-made millions as a reason to get a book deal; Ant and Dec could probably release a best-selling book on money, if they weren’t so busy making it. And for his part, Farleigh has the boyish looks and the charm to give the boys from Byker’s Grove a run for their money.

With its cover length shot of the smiling author and a slightly dumbed-down title (it was originally released as Taming the Lion in 2005), it’s hard to not to open Farleigh’s 100 Secret Strategies for Successful Investing expecting day-glo stickers and a My First Investment wallchart to fall out.

But that’d be unfair, and not only because Farleigh was by far the nicest investor ever to grace the Den.

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