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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
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  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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JT

John Train

T2JournalistsInvestorsProfiles of investors and traders

American investment adviser and writer, and a founding editor of The Paris Review. Died in 2022.

Train, Smith Counsel

The Money Masters profiled Buffett, Graham, Templeton and Price while several were still working, setting out each manager's method in a few pages and establishing the format every later investor-profile book uses. Famous Financial Fiascos covers the reverse case, running through manias and frauds from the tulip trade onward.

4 books of their own

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  1. The Money MastersJohn Train, 1980
  2. Money Masters of Our TimeJohn Train, 2000
  3. Famous Financial FiascosJohn Train, 1985
The Money MastersThe Money Masters
T2 The Money Masters
John Train · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

The methods of nine great investors, including Buffett, Graham, Fisher and Templeton.

“all these people really were helpful in forming and getting me involved in investing” — Joel Greenblatt

Source: Masters in Business transcript: Joel Greenblatt (2018)

Recommended by: Joel Greenblatt, Mohnish Pabrai and 1 other

Money Masters of Our TimeMoney Masters of Our Time
T2 Money Masters of Our Time
John Train · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Profiles of exceptional investors: their backgrounds, methods and records.

Famous Financial FiascosFamous Financial Fiascos
T2 Famous Financial Fiascos
John Train · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

Short accounts of manias, frauds and disasters, from tulips to the South Sea Bubble.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

The Midas TouchThe Midas Touch
T2 The Midas Touch
John Train · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

An early account of Buffett's investing method, from 1987.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Money MastersThe methods of nine great investors, including Buffett, Graham, Fisher and Templeton.1980T2Joel Greenblatt, Mohnish Pabrai, Peter Cundill
Money Masters of Our TimeProfiles of exceptional investors: their backgrounds, methods and records.2000T2–
Famous Financial FiascosShort accounts of manias, frauds and disasters, from tulips to the South Sea Bubble.1985T2Morgan Housel
The Midas TouchAn early account of Buffett's investing method, from 1987.1987T2Mohnish Pabrai

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