Grant Alger (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, xviii + 230 pages, copiously illustrated, NOT ex-library. Weight over 1kg. Faint fingermarks on endpapers; a small area of staining in the lower inner corner of first pages; faint handling marks on page edges externally. Else interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "Persistence and Perspective" does double duty as a history of the rise of mutual funds as an investment for the expanding middle class in America. It also looks at Franklin Templeton's struggles in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by huge growth in the 1980s when it became an innovator in money market funds. Today, Franklin Templeton has more than $500 billion in assets under management.

Pictorial Hardcover. A 60-year history of the wildly successful American fund company which was modelled on the wisdom of US founding father Benjamin Franklin. Foreword by chairman Charles B. Johnson. Complete with short letter insert form CEO Gregory F. Johnson. 229 pages with color & B&W photos. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine plus condition except for a very tiny amount of rubbing at bottom spine edge & bump to bottom front corner. Internals like new. Extra shipping may be required.