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Investing, Markets, and Finance – A Comprehensive Reading List

Investing, Markets & Finance - Comprehensive Reading List

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For those who desire to acquire an introduction to investing, markets and finance, or wish to expand their macroeconomic and market knowledge, continue on for a comprehensive reading list. In addition to our full comprehensive list, some of our favorite recommendations from our Beacon Pointe Summer Educational Series, Foundations of Finance are listed below.

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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]One Up On Wall Street - How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]The Intelligent Investor - The Definitive Book On Value Investing

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]Against The Gods - The Remarkable Story of Risk

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]Skin in the Game - Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]The Wall Street Journal - Guide to Understanding Money & Investing

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]Conspiracy of Fools - Behind Thick Corporate Walls, In the Shadows of Wall Street, Along the Corridors of Political Power, A Scandal is Brewing...

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]The Most Important Thing - Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/5″][vc_column_text]The Big Short - Inside The Doomsday Machine

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Reading Key Corresponds with Recommended Reads Below:

  • GREEN = accessible
  • ORANGE = intermediate
  • GREY = advanced

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Investment Strategy, Macroeconomics, Game Theory and Uncertainty:

  • Ellis, Charles, “Classics, An Investor’s Anthology,” Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, 1989
  • Keynes, John Maynard, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,” 1936 (especially Chapter 12 on The State of Long-Term Expectations)
  • Minsky, Hyman, “Stabilizing and Unstable Economy,” McGraw Hill, 1986 (we recommend reading the preface in“Minsky’s Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: Two Decades Later” by Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray, at minimum)
  • Stanyer, Peter and Satchell, Stephen, “Guide to Investment Strategy: How to Understand Markets, Risk, Rewards and Behaviour,” Fourth Edition, The Economist in association with Profile Books Ltd., May 2018
  • Reinhart, Carmen and Rogoff, Kenneth, “This Time is Different,” Princeton University Press, 2009
  • Knight, Frank, “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit,” Dodo Press, 1921
  • Ostrom, Eleanor, “Governing the Commons: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions,” Cambridge University Press, 1990
  • Semi-annually in April and October with updates: International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook” and “Global Financial Stability Report”

Financial Repression

  • Reinhart, Carmen M. and Kirkegaard, Jacob F. and Sbrancia, M. Belen, “Financial Repression Redux,” (June 2011).
  • Carmen M. Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia, “The Liquidation of Government Debt,” NBER Working Paper No. 16893, March 2011

Monetary Policy

Behavioral Economics

  • Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos, “Choices, Values, and Frames,” Cambridge University Press, 2000
  • Akerloff, George A. and Shiller, Robert J., “Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism,” Princeton University Press, 2009
  • Lewis, Michael, “The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds,” W.W. Norton and Co., 2016

Equity Investing:

  • Fisher, Philip, “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits,” 1958
  • Malkiel, Burton, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” 1973
  • Lynch, Peter, “One Up on Wall Street,” 1989

Fixed Income Investing

  • Fabozzi, Frank, “The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities,” Eighth Edition Hardcover, McGraw Hill, 2012

 

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