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Financial Institutions Internet Sourcebook, by Evans and Thygerson Ken Thygerson and I wrote this
book because of our strong convection that the financial markets will be dramatically changed because of the Internet. Our beliefs are being realized.
Grey Dawn, By Peter G. Peterson,
The End of retirement as we know it.
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The greatest demographic event to happen this century was the baby boom. From 1946 to 1965, 76 million live births were recorded in the United States alone, a phenomenon that's been responsible for everything from the surge in baby-food products in the '50s and early '60s to the roaring stock market of today, fueled in part by boomers investing for retirement. Peter Peterson, author of Gray Dawn, looks ahead at the implications of the baby boom, and what he sees is not the bliss that many of us imagine for our golden years but rather an iceberg that threatens to sink the economy and disenfranchise subsequent generations. --Harry C. Edwards
The Intelligent Investor, by Ben Graham
This is the book that started it all and has educated college students for decades. This is the book that started Warren Buffett in his great investment adventure.
The Warren Buffett Way, by Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr.
From Booklist , October 15, 1994
Warren Buffett was identified as the richest person in America by Forbes last year. Of the more than 70 individuals or families worth more than $1 billion on Forbes list, only Buffett acquired his wealth through investing. Hagstrom, a principal at a Philadelphia investment firm, has tracked the success of Buffett for more than 10 years and argues that the same strategies that Buffett uses in selecting acquisitions can be used by individuals in selecting stocks. Buffett's firm, Berkshire Hathaway, has one of the most widely read annual reports issued, with Buffett himself personally contributing advice, humor, and insight. Hagstrom had Buffett's approval in including extensive quotes from these reports, but Buffett cooperated in no other way with this book. Hagstrom examines the influence of Benjamin Graham and his classic The Intelligent Investor on Buffett and details what Buffett looks for in his investments. Recommended for libraries with popular investment collections. David Rouse
Copyright© 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved
One Up on Wall Street, by Peter Lynch 
AMAZON.COM Review - In easy-to-follow terminology, Lynch offers directions for sorting out the long shots from the no shots by spending just a few minutes with a company's financial statements. His advice for producing "tenbaggers" can turn a stock portfolio into a star performer!
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkie
I first read this book in 1973 while I was in graduate school. This may be one of the first books that helped individuals look at and question of stock selection.
Amazon.com - It's unlikely that you'll spot many dog-eared copies of A Random Walk
floating amongst the Wall Street set (although bookshelves at home may prove otherwise). After all, a "random walk"--in market terms--suggests that a "blindfolded monkey" would have as much luck selecting a portfolio as a pro. But Burton Malkiel's classic investment book is anything but random. Since stock prices cannot be predicted in the short term, argues Malkiel, individual investors are better off buying and holding onto index funds than meddling with securities or actively managing mutual funds. Not only will a broad range of index funds outperform a professionally managed portfolio in the long run, but investors can avoid expense charges and trading costs, which decrease returns.
First published in 1973, this seventh printing of a A Random Walk looks forward and does so broadly, examining a new range of investment choices facing the turn-of-the-century investor: money-market accounts, tax-exempt funds, Roth IRAs, and equity REITs, as well as the potential benefits and pitfalls of the emerging global economy. In his updated "life-cycle guide to investing," Malkiel offers age-related investment strategies that consider one's capacity for risk. (A 30-year-old who can depend on wages to offset investment losses has a different risk capacity from a 60-year-old.) In his assessment of rocketing Internet stocks, Malkiel defends his "random" position well, explaining how "the market eventually corrects any irrationality--albeit in its own slow, inexorable fashion. Anomalies can crop up, markets can get irrationally optimistic, and often they attract unwary investors. But eventually, true value is recognized by the market, and this is the main lesson investors must heed." Written for the financial layperson but bolstered by 30 years of research, A Random Walk will help individual investors take charge of their financial future. Recommended. --Rob McDonald --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title
The Money Masters, by John Train
This is a very good book that lets the reader get into the mind of the successful investors. The Digital Financier highly reccomends this book.
The Motley Fool, Randy Befumo says - The Money Masters is John Train's first compilation of interviews with successful investors, including the famous, the infamous, and some that are relatively unknown except to a select few. It covers Golden Age investors who, for the most part, attained their reputations prior to the crash of 1973 and 1974.
Train's writing is crisp and entertaining, and his synopses of the lengthy interviews with investment luminaries contain many pearls of wisdom applicable to any investor's philosophy. That Train himself is an accomplished investor in his own right allows him to bring a level of insight and perspicacity to the effort that a traditional financial writer or business journalist might not have captured.
The Money Masters covers the origins of the value and growth philosophies of investing that many managers practice variations of today. The sections on Ben Graham and Sir John Templeton both outline the development of the fundamental approach to valuation as well as its original application in stock markets throughout the world. Phil Fisher and T. Rowe Price represent the two most celebrated proponents of what has come to be known as the growth strategy, adding the additional rigor of another layer of criteria to the value-style approach. Warren Buffett stands as one of the first great synthesizers of the ideas of both Graham and Fisher, while other investors like Larry Tisch represent variations on one particular strand, in Tisch's case that being value-investing.
The New Money Masters, by John Train
The Motley Fool, Randy Befumo - The New Money Masters is John Train's second compilation
of interviews with successful investors, including the famous, the infamous, and some that are relatively unknown except to a select few. It focuses on a group of investing champions that became household names in the 1980s, while his first compilation, The Money Masters, deals with Golden Age investors who, for the most part, attained their reputations prior to the crash of 1973 and 1974.
Train's writing is crisp and entertaining, and his synopses of the lengthy interviews with investment luminaries contain many pearls of wisdom applicable to any investor's philosophy. That Train himself is an accomplished investor in his own right allows him to bring a level of insight and perspicacity to the effort that a traditional financial writer or business journalist might not have captured.
The New Money Masters launches into the crazy heyday of the 1980s, covering some names that the term trader, rather than investor, might apply more readily. The biggest brand name interviewed here is Peter Lynch, an author in his own right who attained fame for his performance with Fidelity's flagship Magellan fund. Lynch pioneered a consumer approach to the investing process and invested using a hybrid of the growth and value style that has come to be known within the industry as GARP, standing for Growth At A Reasonable Price. Another mutual fund giant profiled in the book is John Neff, whose performance with Vanguard's flagship Windsor fund firmly illustrates that a countercyclical approach can actually consistently outperform the market. Neff is most famous for buying cyclical companies' stocks at their lows and then holding them for three to five years to make money.
The New Money Masters diverges from The Money Masters in that it discusses names like George Soros, Jimmy Rogers and Michael Steinhardt, some of the more famous traders of our age. Soros and Rogers are famous for beginning the market-smashing Quantum fund, a hedge fund limited to less than a 100 investors able to pay the million dollar-plus price to get in. Quantum did wonderful things like putting most of its assets short the English pound. Both Soros and Rogers have fairly interesting ideas about the nature of investing and the sentiment behind it, although I must confess a personal distaste for Sorosian philosophical leanings, as they tend to exhibit everything about Continental philosophy since 1900 that I dislike. However, Soros and Rogers provide key insights into the factors that result in specific equities becoming mispriced, information that allows the individual investor to recognize the very regimented process of investing.
Inside the Yield Book, by Homer and Leibowitz
The best book that I have ever read on the mathematics of bond investing. This book is out of print. Amazon will attempt to acquire a copy for you. It is worth the effort.
Where Wizzards Stay Up Late, by Lyon and Hafner
This is an excellent book for the interested reader or Internet follower that wants to learn about the origin of the NET. Amazon.com review - Considering that the history of the Internet is perhaps better documented internally than any other technological construct, it is remarkable how shadowy its origins have been to most people, including die-hard Net-denizens!
At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past -- and the future -- of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally.
With the incredible growth of the Internet in the 1990s and revolutions occurring almost daily, it is easy to overlook the origins of this cultural phenomenon. Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon have captured the history of the Internet in this solid account. They explain the system's genesis as a device to link computer resources around the country--not to prepare communications for nuclear war strikes as is often thought--and how, as with many of us, e-mail was the application of choice for many users. It also tells of the story of the buttoned-up engineers who invented the Internet--in contrast to the late-night hackers who pushed its evolution. In all, an interesting history about a medium that has fostered an aversion to the past.
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