Charles B Johnson Foreword (1 results)

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.…