Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.Develop a Winning Investment Strategy-with Expert Advice from “The Nation’s #1 Money Manager.” Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies-and their stocks-perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how. Review Beating the Street was Peter Lynch's follow-up to his bestselling book, One Up on Wall Street. Although many have accused him of writing the same book twice, his second time at bat allows him to add even more clarity to his basic message. Lynch, for those unfamiliar with the pantheon of investment gods, managed Fidelity's flagship Magellan fund for more than 20 years, compounding one of the most fantastic performance records ever. Although Lynch did not invent the "growth at a reasonable price" (GARP) approach to buying stocks, his unique spin on it allowed him to become one of the most successful portfolio managers ever. Lynch's basic message in Beating the Street is quite Foolish--you, an individual, can actually find great stocks before Wall Street does. Using a combination of intelligence, reflection, perseverance and discipline, it is possible for the average person to uncover great investments. Although many mistakenly boil Lynch down to "buy what you like," his real point of view is that products and services you use and enjoy are often provided by excellent companies. If you research these companies and find out whether or not the stock that corresponds to them is priced favorably, you have an outstanding chance at compounding market-beating returns. Although much is made of Lynch's connection to Magellan, I found the most helpful parts of the book were Lynch's lucid descriptions of various companies with superior products or services and what happened to the stock. Like little morality plays, these small dramas of stock picking are rich with useful details applicable to anyone's style of portfolio management. Also, Lynch's description of how he turned his wife's IRA into a million-dollar account by focused investing in the undervalued shares of Federal National Mortgage Association (NYSE: FNM) serves as an example of how a focused portfolio of only a few stocks can create fantastic wealth. -- The Motley Fool, Randy Befumo About the Author Peter Lynch managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990 when it was one of the most successful mutual-funds of all time. He then became a vice chairman at Fidelity and more recently has become a prominent philanthropist particularly active in the Boston area. His books include One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street, and Learn to Earn (all written with John Rothchild).John Rothchild was formerly a financial columnist for Time and Fortune magazines. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1THE MIRACLE OF ST. AGNESAmateur stockpicking is a dying art, like pie-baking, which is losing out to the packaged goods. A vast army of mutual-fund managers is paid handsomely to do for portfolios what Sara Lee did for cakes. I'm sor

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