Investing category: 13468 books
Wall Street Craps
How to Play Today's Hot & Cold Stock Market for Fast Money with Less Risk
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
STOP LOSING MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET! Risking your hard-earned money in today’s volatile stock market has become more akin to gambling than it is traditional investing. But despite its wild gyrations, the stock market still qualifies as one of the best investment vehicles in terms of good odds, high...
Beat the Market
Win with Proven Stock Selection and Market Timing Tools
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
“In this compelling book, Gerald Appel distills a lifetime of learning about what works on Wall Street into key principles of investment success. Whether you are new to the world of finance or you’re a veteran portfolio manager, you will gain from Gerald’s innovative research and his discerning...
Uncommon Sense
Investment Wisdom Since the Stock Market's Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Question everything – and become a better investor in the process
Uncommon Sense takes readers on a four-century journey; from the dawn of public share ownership (in 1602) right up to today. But this is not simply a history book. It's a book for serious investors. Along the way it reveals...
by Vineer Bhansali
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
"TAIL RISKS" originate from the failure of mean reversion and the idealized bell curve of asset returns, which assumes that highly probable outcomes occur near the center of the curve and that unlikely occurrences, good and bad, happen rarely, if at all, at either "tail" of the...
Credit Derivatives
Trading, Investing, and Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The credit derivatives industry has come under close scrutiny over the past few years, with the recent financial crisis highlighting the instability of a number of credit structures and throwing the industry into turmoil. What has been made clear by recent events is the necessity for a thorough understanding...
by Kim Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
If you're looking for advice on how to make a fast buck and get an adrenalin high from investing, this book is not for you. If you're looking to build wealth over time, Kim Shannon covers a common sense approach that Sionna Investment Managers uses to manage money on behalf of its clients.Shannon...
Simple But Not Easy
An Autobiographical and Biased Book About Investing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Described by the author as "a slightly autobiographical and heavily biased book about investing", Simple But Not Easy has plenty of interest to the experienced professional, and is aimed also at the interested amateur investor. The theme of the book is that investment is simpler than non-professionals...
The Deals of Warren Buffett
Volume 1, The first $100m
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
It took the world's greatest investor, Warren Buffett, nearly four decades to make his first $100m. The Deals of Warren Buffett - Volume 1 charts the series of investments that made up that journey. In revealing detail, and with a lucid descriptive style, experienced author and investor Glen Arnold...
by Glen Arnold, Ms Deborah Lewis BA, FCA
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
"The book combines academic rigour (in the explanation of theory) with practical application (explaining how companies apply theory in real life). There are lots of numerical examples to help with understanding of the concepts covered." Dr Rob Jones, Newcastle University Business School
The...
Buffet's 5 Best Dividend Stocks
Plus: An Investment Survival Guide for Tough Times Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The investment analysts at Newsmax Finance scoured the documents of Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, and investigated what Buffett is saying about the companies that he's investing in. Based on this, our analysts picked from Buffett's stock portfolio the 5 best dividend stocks” to invest...
Pandora’s Risk
Uncertainty at the Core of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance. Markets don't trade mainly on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the process, markets unite, stretch, and occasionally...
by Nick Atkeson, Andrew Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A DISCIPLINED STRATEGY FOR AVOIDING MAJOR DOWN MARKETS AND PARTICIPATING IN BULLISH MARKETS
Your financial advisor's strategy to buy-and-hold a diversified equity portfolio sounded good. Diversification promised to protect your wealth. Now, however, more than a decade of hard data shows it didn't...
The Equity Risk Premium
Essays and Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
What is the return to investing in the stock market? Can we predict future stock market returns? How have equities performed over the last two centuries? The authors in this volume are among the leading researchers in the study of these questions. This book draws upon their research on the stock market...
Investing Today for the World of Tomorrow
Studies on the Investment Process in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Investment is crucial to the development of a nation's economy and welfare. In contrast to the United States, investment in Europe has been quite modest over the past few years. This volume gathers together a number of papers by prominent researchers in the field of investment. It provides an overview...