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Article: BIZ BOOKS: A WEEKLY PEEK AT WHAT'S ON THE SHELVES ; `Dick Davis Dividend' declares diversification's durability
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- January 5, 2008
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Stock market expert Dick Davis emphatically denies that he is
one.
In fact, Davis - an entrepreneur, former stock broker and
longtime financial newsletter publisher, commentator and teacher -
puts the term "stock market expert" squarely in the same category in
which some cynics think the term "military intelligence" belongs.
In "The Dick Davis Dividend," his first book-length exposition on
matters financial, Davis says: "When someone teaches a class or
writes a book, the inference is that he's an expert on the subject.
In the market advice field, we all know there is no such thing and
that, in fact, the term stock market expert is an oxymoron," Davis
writes.
In eschewing any claim to such ...