John Wiley & Sons, 2011, [Finance] Grade 5
This is a magnificent book. It’s also absolutely massive, 500+ pages totally stuffed with information. The recent recruit to AQR, Antti Ilmanen, with a long experience from the Finish central bank, Salomon Brothers FX-department and the hedge fund Brevan Howard is a sponge concerning financial knowledge. There is... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2011, [Finance] Grade 4
One of the holy grails of investing would be to spot financial bubbles before they burst. Hedge fund manager Vikram Mansharamani who teaches a class at Yale called Financial Booms and Busts, has written a book on this very subject. With the notion that while asset markets... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
John Wiley & Sons, 2010, [Finance] Grade 4
The hedge fund advisor Steven Drobny had a huge international success with the book Inside the House of Money where he in a very easy going way interviews a number of high profile macro hedge fund managers on topics such as how they got into the business, their processes and beliefs. Perhaps because I am not... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Business One Irwin, 1993, [Finance] Grade 5
This is one of the books that actually changed the world - well the investment world at least. Starting in the 1950’s, Harry Markowitz and others in academia developed what later became modern portfolio theory (MPT). The thing was that the investment industry didn’t really pick up on these novelties. That is, not until... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
Columbia University Press, 2011, [Finance] Grade 5
Wisdom and wit, that’s what you get when one of the most seasoned investors receives decades of writing practice before he publishes his first book. Howard Marks is the founder of Oaktree Capital Management which for 30 years been a hugely successful investor in... Further reading... Link to Amazon...
