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Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond

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By (author): Alisdair Nairn

Engines That Move Markets is a comprehensive history of market-shaping industries and their impact on how we invest today. Now in its second edition, this modern investing classic highlights the history of industrial development and its impact on investors. By exploring key technological advances of the past and what they meant for investors - including electricity, the railroad, the telephone, the computer and more - it provides vital insights on how to appraise the new technology companies of the future. A complete and deeply researched history of industries and investing, the book is filled with fascinating and instructive details, including how Thomas Edison lost control of his company, the impact of the Standard Oil breakup, the early days of the wireless industry, and the course of the computer and internet revolution. Investors looking for industry-shaping investments will undoubtedly use Engines That Move Markets as their guide. This revised and updated second edition is the most definitive and comprehensive version yet. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1043g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Apr 2018
  • Publisher: Harriman House Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857195999

About Alisdair Nairn

Alasdair (Sandy) Nairn is one of the founders of Edinburgh Partners an independent fund management company which was acquired by Franklin Templeton in 2018. Prior to establishing Edinburgh Partners he was chief investment officer of Scottish Widows investment Partnership and between 1990 and 2000 was employed by Templeton Investment Management where he was executive vice president and director of global equity research. Before joining Templeton investment Management Sandy spent four years at Murray Johnstone as a portfolio manager and research analyst. Prior to that he spent a year as an economist at the Scottish Development Agency. He is currently Investment Partner and CEO of Edinburgh Partners and Chairman of the Templeton Global Equity Group. Sandy graduated from the University of Strathclyde and has a PhD in economics from the University of Strathclyde/Scottish Business School. He is an Associate of the UK Society of Investment Professionals in the UK and is a CFA charterholder with the CFA Institute in the United States. In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2001 he published the first edition of Engines That Move Markets with the updated second edition being published in 2018. He has won multiple performance awards for the management of global equity portfolios over his 37-year investment career. In 2012 he co-authored the book Templeton's Way With Money with Jonathan Davis.

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