Agustin Lebron, The Laws Of Trading [Book Review]
Augustin Lebron, formerly a trader and researcher at Jane Street Capital and now head of a consulting firm on decision-making, has written a refreshingly cerebral book, The Laws of... Read More
Equity Smart Beta And Factor Investing For Practitioners
Equity Smart Beta and Factor Investing for Practitioners by Khalid Ghayur, Ronan G. Heaney, and Stephen C. Platt (Wiley, 2019) is, according to the publisher, the first full-length book... Read More
Michael O’Sullivan, The Levelling [Book Review]
To understand the title of Michael O’Sullivan’s book, you must go back to 1647 England and the Putney Debates. A year after King Charles I lost the English Civil... Read More
Mihir Desai, How Finance Works [Book Review]
If you are a burgeoning equity analyst or a self-directed fundamental investor, you will be confronted with reams of corporate financial data, from EBITDA to net present value. Even... Read More
John Stepek, The Sceptical Investor [Book Review]
John Stepek, executive editor of the UK’s best-selling financial magazine MoneyWeek, has written an astute book for retail investors. The Sceptical Investor: How Contrarians Bet Against the Market and... Read More
T. Rowe Price – The Story Behind The First Growth Investor
Cornelius C. Bond spent many years at T. Rowe Price, first as a technology analyst and eventually as president of the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund. For almost... Read More
Jim Collins, Turning The Flywheel [Book Review]
Turning the Flywheel: Why Some Companies Build Momentum … and Others Don’t (HarperBusiness, 2019) is a short (40-page) monograph intended to accompany Jim Collins’s iconic bestseller Good to Great,... Read More
Safi Bahcall, Loonshots [Book Review]
Safi Bahcall’s Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries (St. Martin’s Press, 2019) is a terrific book, one I couldn’t put... Read More
Amy Webb, The Big Nine [Book Review]
On February 11, President Donald Trump launched the American AI Initiative, directing federal agencies to focus on the technology. The United States was slow to take even this admittedly... Read More
Stevenson & Tuckwell, The Ultimate ETF Guidebook
Trust me, there’s a lot about ETFs that you don’t know. David Stevenson, a columnist at the Financial Times, and David Tuckwell, editor of ETF Stream, set out to... Read More
Niall J. Gannon, Tailored Wealth Management
Niall J. Gannon, of the Gannon Group at Morgan Stanley, is a financial advisor for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals and families. And yet Tailored... Read More
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism [Book Review]
Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School, has the rare ability to take a subject that has been beaten to death and offer a fresh, provocative take on... Read More
AQR Capital Management, 20 For Twenty
A heads up to anyone who wants to understand how some very bright quants think. I just downloaded AQR’s anthology commemorating its 20th anniversary. It’s big, coming in at... Read More
Amy Edmondson, The Fearless Organization [Book Review]
Twenty years of research inform The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (Wiley, 2019) by Amy C. Edmondson, a professor at the... Read More
The Best Books Of 2018
Another year, another idiosyncratic list of what I consider to be the best books I reviewed this year, with links to my reviews. Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Photo... Read More
Bruce Jacobs, Too Smart For Our Own Good [Book Review]
Bruce I. Jacobs’ Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes (McGraw-Hill, 2018) attempts to identify the common causes of financial crises... Read More
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, Delivering Alpha [Book Review]
Delivering Alpha: Lessons from 30 Years of Outperforming Investment Benchmarks (McGraw-Hill, 2019) by Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is written for “any finance professional who wants to know how to add sustainable... Read More
Miller & Conley, Legacy In The Making [Book Review]
Branding has gotten a bad rap in the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency. It has been conflated with egotism and narcissism. But entrepreneurs and companies work... Read More
Hirsch & Mistal, Stock Trader’s Almanac 2019
The Stock Trader’s Almanac is now in its 52th edition. Not quite the track record of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which launched in 1792, but presumably a tad more... Read More
Truthful Living: The First Writings Of Napoleon Hill [Book Review]
It’s hard to have missed Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, which has sold more than 100 million copies since it was published in 1937 and helped spawn the... Read More
Robin Speziale, Capital Compounders [Book Review]
Robin R. Speziale, author of Market Masters, is a 31-year-old, self-taught Canadian growth investor. In this second edition of Capital Compounders: How to Beat the Market and Make Money... Read More
Daniel Crosby, The Behavioral Investor [Book Review]
In 2014 Daniel Crosby, a psychologist and asset manager, co-authored the bestselling Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management and followed that up in 2016 with The Laws... Read More
