John Griffin is CEO of Blue Ridge Capital, a New York based hedge fund management firm. Griffin has a value oriented style. John Griffin, 47, was second in to Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management. He launched a Tiger cub fund, Blue Ridge Capital in 1996.
Below is a list of Griffin’s reading list from Columbia Business School‘s website. Many of these names will sound familiar, but a few are not on the usual value investor reading list.
Kenneth C. Griffin Reading List
- Behavioral Finance, Psychology
Shefrin, Hersh. Beyond Greed and Fear
Cialdini, Robert. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Plous, Scott. The Psychology and Judgment of Decision Making
Gilovich, Thomas. How We Know What Isn’t So
Haugen, Robert. The Inefficient Stock Market
Tobias & McKay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Claxton, Guy. Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
Pring, Martin. Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies to Beat the Market
Wright, Robert The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are
- Historical and biographical
Baruch, Bernard. Baruch: My Own Story
Brooks, John. Go-Go Years: Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s
Buffett, Warren. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
Byrne, John. Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap
Garber, Peter. Famous First Bubbles
Ellis & Vertin Classic II: Another Investor’s Anthology
Lefevre, Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Schwager, Jack. The New Market Wizards
Schwed, Fred. Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?
Steinhardt, Jim. No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets
- Economics
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom
Friedman, Thomas. The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson
- Analysis
Bernstein, Peter. Against the Gods
Collins & Porras Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Ellis, Charles-Winning the Loser’s Game, Fifth Edition: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing
Fisher, Philip. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Graham & Dodd Security Analysis
Staley, Kathryn. The Art of Short Selling
- Other
Carnegie, Dale. How To Win Friends and Influence People
Goodspeed, Bennett. The Tao Jones Averages
Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh
Wright, Robert. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
