Book Recommendations
Value Investing:
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Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters
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"The Intelligent Investor", Benjamin Graham
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"The Most Important Thing", Howard Marks
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"Margin of Safety", Seth Klarman
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"The Outsiders", William Thorndike
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"Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle", Edward Chancellor
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Leveraged / Distressed Credit:
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"Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors", Stephen Moyer
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"A Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance: Credit Analysis for Bonds and Bank Debt", Robert Kricheff
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"Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis", Blaise Ganguin and John Bilardello
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Special Situation:
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"You Can Be a Stock Market Genius", Joel Greenblatt
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GARP (Growth At a Reasonable Price):
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"One Up on Wall Street", Peter Lynch
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Growth:
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"Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits", Philip Fisher
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Business Strategy:
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"Competition Demystified", Bruce Greenwald
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"Understanding Michael Porter", Joan Magretta
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Accounting/Finance:
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"Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies", McKinsey & Co.
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"The Little Book of Valuation", Aswath Damodaran
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"Accounting for M&A, Credit, and Equity Analysts", James Morris
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"Financial Shenanigans", Howard Schilit
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"The Investment Checklist", Michael Shearn
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"Quality of Earnings", Thornton O'Glove
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Thinking and Networking:
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"Influence", Robert Cialdini
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"How to Win Friends and Influence People", Dale Carnegie
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"Thinking Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman
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"Fooled By Randomness", Nassim Taleb
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"The Black Swan", Nassim Taleb
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"Antifragile", Nassim Taleb
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Industry Specific:
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"House of Morgan", Ron Chernow (JP Morgan)
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"Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World", William Cohan (Goldman Sachs)
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"Shoe Dog", Phil Knight (Nike)
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"Sam Walton: Made in America", Sam Walton (Walmart)
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"The Prize" – Daniel Yergin (oil and gas)
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"Cable Cowboy", Mark Robichaux (Cable / John Malone)
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"The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon", Brad Stone (Amazon)
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"Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future", Ashlee Vance (Tesla / Elon Musk)
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Areas of High Finance
Investment Banking:
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"Monkey Business", John Rolfe and Peter Troob
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Private Equity:
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"Barbarians at the Gate - The Fall of RJR Nabisco", Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
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"King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzmann and Blackstone", David Carey and John Morris
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"King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist", Mark Stevens
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"The Predators' Ball : The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of Junk Bond Raiders", Connie Bruck
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Hedge Fund:
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"Money Masters of Our Time", John Train
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"More Money Than God", Sebastian Mallaby
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"When Genius Failed", Roger Lowenstein
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"Fooling Some of the People All the Time, A Long Short Story", David Einhorn
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"Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff", Christine Richard
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"The Greatest Trade Ever", Greg Zuckerman
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"The Big Short", Michael Lewis
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Sell-side Research:
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"Confession of a Wall Street Analyst", Daniel Reingold
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"Exile on Wall Street", Mike Mayo
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Sales and Trading:
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"Liar's Poker", Michael Lewis
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"The Buy Side", Turney Duff