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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

Sebastian Mallaby · 482 pages

Based on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, economist/journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st century capitalism. Ken Griffin started

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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

Howard Marks · 180 pages

This book explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today's volatile market

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 400 pages

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The Myth of the Rational Market: Wall Street's Impossible Quest for Predictable Markets

Justin Fox · 382 pages

Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing, from the formative days of Wall Street through

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Security Analysis

Benjamin Graham, David L. Dodd · 770 pages

Security Analysis is often referred to as the bible of value investing. It has been described by Warren Buffett as the best investment book he has ever read. Originally written in the 30's by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, it has been updated over the years, and remains relevant in the age of electronic trading.

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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story

David Einhorn · 426 pages

How far will some unscrupulous companies go to keep the truth about their dealings from the American investor? Farther than the eye can see, according to this account by Einhorn, the founder of Greenlight Capital, a long-short value-oriented hedge fund. Einhorn's firm has achieved greater than a 25 percent annualized net return for its investors since 1996, proof that Einhorn can literally put his

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Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

Bruce C.N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema · 316 pages

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Alice Schroeder · 1,255 pages

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing

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Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis · 298 pages

Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. This bestselling and hilarious book blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Mich

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein · 281 pages

"John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best - and the brainiest - bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of

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F.I.A.S.C.O.: Guns, Booze and Bloodlust - The Truth About High Finance

Frank Partnoy · 254 pages

F.I.A.S.C.O. is an insider's diary, a shocking education in the jungle of high finance in the 1990s from New York to Tokyo. It tracks the progress of a young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns the ropes of this sophisticated jungle, where billions of dollars are lost in the creation and trading of securities so unlikely and so complicated that almost nobody - certainly not the unwary or underedu

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A Short History of Financial Euphoria

John Kenneth Galbraith · 113 pages

How is it that, with all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, the market still goes boom and bust? How come people are so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost sure to follow? In A Short History of Financial Euphoria, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith reviews, with insight and wit,

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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

Scott Patterson, Mike Chamberlain · 337 pages

"Beware of geeks bearing formulas." --Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whip-smart whiz kid who'd

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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson · 351 pages

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDo

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Hedgehogging

Barton Biggs · 320 pages

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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

John C. Hull

Suitable for advanced undergraduate or graduate business, economics, and financial engineering courses in derivatives, options and futures, or risk management, this text bridges the gap between theory and practice.

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Principles of Corporate Finance

Richard A. Brealey · 976 pages

The integrated solutions for Brealey's Principles of Corporate Finance have been specifically designed to help improve student performance, meaning that students are prepared for class and can successfully solve problems and analyze the results. Resources within Connect Finance provide unlimited opportunities for students to practice solving financial problems and apply what they've learned. Breal

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A Man for All Markets

Edward O. Thorp · 416 pages

Traces the author's experiences as a mathematics wizard, author, inventor, hedge-fund manager, and card-counter who revealed casino-beating strategies, invented the first wearable computer, and launched a Wall Street revolution.

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Hedge Fund Market Wizards

Jack D. Schwager · 526 pages

"Hedge Fund Market Wizards will be a modern day sequel to the highly successful Market Wizards and New Market Wizards written over 20 years ago. These two earlier volumes have become classics in the investment literature and have been read by virtually every hedge fund manager, as well as by a much broader lay audience. This new volume in the series will follow the same effective formula used by i

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When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

Mohamed El-Erian · 344 pages

SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST"ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET." --MONEY MAGAZINE"This book is an essential read for those who wish to understand the modern world of investing." --Alan GreenspanWinner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award When Markets Collide is a timely alert to the fundamental changes taking

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