Best Books on Finance
What are some books you would recommend for a sophomore in college looking to learn more about finance?
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I read this as a sophomore and it was quite helpful in understanding investment banks and which division most interested me:
http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Banking-Explained-Insiders-Industry/dp…
This one is the standard recommendation for learning valuation/modeling:
http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Banking-Valuation-Leveraged-Acquisitio…
Some more enjoyable reading around finance and investment banking: Liar's Poker Barbarians at the Gate Predator's Ball Street Freak Monkey Business The Big Short Too Big to Fail
probably recommend they master the art of the wso search engine before reading anything
No offense but please use the search function. This topic has been covered many times.
Edit: ^ you beat me to it by seconds
You should use the search but here's a couple that don't make many of those lists: The Quants Trend Following The Way of the Turtle
All a little quirky but good reads.
There's a reason why the "Recommended Readings" in the FAQ section of this site exists.
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King of Capital. Halfway through and its awesome. It is the story of Blackstone and buyout firms from the ground up...pretty good read.
Your Top 3: Finance Related Books (Originally Posted: 02/19/2014)
This logically seems that a thread like this would be posted weekly, but I haven't found a recent good finance-book recommendation thread as of yet so here's one to ponder over.
Top 3 finance-related book recommendations - Go!
The Wolf Of Wall Street
u srs bro if we're spouting cliches here, then liar's poker
Greenblatt's 'The Little Book that (Still) Beats the Market', seriously.
Predators' Ball Fooling some of the people all of the time
The Buy Side
thanks a lot everyone...still trying to get used to WSO sry
What economics/finance book should I read? (Originally Posted: 03/04/2011)
I am looking for a book that will better my ability to interpret/analyze articles in The Economist or The WSJ. Any suggestions?
I just finished Economics in One Simple Lesson, which I read upon Braverman's recommendation (Thanks Eddie), it was good but more about general theory than specific macroeconomic data.
Do a search for "books" and READ through the posts.
read david rosenberg's daily newsletter not a book but over time it will give you a much better idea of what is going on than the wsj, which gives it to you in bits and pieces
I'm curious as well. What are everyone's thoughts on the Gartman letter?
Love the Gartman letter and Breakfast/Lunch/Whatever with Dave.
Recommendations for finance books (Originally Posted: 02/15/2013)
Hey guys,
With recruiting over, I'm turning my attention to reading a little more. Does anyone have any recommendations on the top finance books to read? Specifically, are there any books regarding IB and M&A in particular? Most of the books that I can think of (apart from Monkey Business) seem to be about trading/hedge funds/etc.
Here are some books that I can think of off the top of my head: - Liar's Poker - Monkey Business - Too Big To Fail - Barbarians at the Gate - More Money Than God - When Genius Failed - The Big Short
The Ascent of Money- not M&A, but general financial history
Capital Ideas - nice historical discussion of the finance concepts you already know
King of Capital
Investment banking- Rosenbaum
Best Finance Text Books (Originally Posted: 02/23/2007)
Can anyone list the best finance textbooks?
Generally speaking for M&A, Corporate Finance, Derivatives, et cetera.
Thanks in advance everyone.
Aswath Damodaran's Investment Valuation is very good. It helps to know general finance first or have read and comprehended the Vault guide at the very least. It is not that tough of a read and he does a great job of explaining some intricacies in valuation. His website is also great. I'm a little biased though.
Options - Natenberg followed by Hull
corporate finance - Damodaran is good, Titman is good, Ross/Westerfield/Jaffe is basic but good
portfolio management- Reilly/Brown
the bible for derivatives: 'Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives' by John Hull.
Fabozzi for Bonds.
Any good books specializing in munis or does that fall under Fabozzi too?
thanks for the suggestions
Basically, CFA curriculum consists of the very high quality books
What are the best books for equity research?
Hull's book is by far the best for derivatives.
Finance Books (Originally Posted: 02/17/2008)
I wanted to hear about some good recommendations for finance books. I'm starting as a full time analyst in July and would like to do some reading that might help further prepare me before I start. I've read the Vault Guide, Barbarians at the Gate, Monkey Business, Liar's Poker, The Little Book that Beats the Market and and The Essays of Warren Buffett. I wanted to see what other recommendations anyone had. If anyone as read any of the following or has other recommendations, I'd appreciate some feedback:
The Practioner's Guide to Investment Banking (http://www.scoopbooks.com/ourbooks_2.php) The Alchemy of Finance The Intelligent Investor Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis
I'm looking for something that will be applicable to the work and analyst does and help prepare me before I start. Thanks for the help.
Damodaran's books..
Investment valuation and The dark side of valuation
Check out the links.
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/rate-em-best-books-on-ib-ma-corpo…
The poster in this thread mentioned a book called ScoopBooks - The Practitioner's Guide to Investment Banking & Mergers & Acquisitions. Does anyone know: is this book commonly handed out to incoming analysts?
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/ma-books
http://www.scoopbooks.com/ourbooks_2.php
[quote=F9 - Update]Check out the links.
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The poster in this thread mentioned a book called ScoopBooks - The Practitioner's Guide to Investment Banking & Mergers & Acquisitions. Does anyone know: is this book commonly handed out to incoming analysts?
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/ma-books
http://www.scoopbooks.com/ourbooks_2.php[/quote]
This book is probably the best book on Investment banking by far. It is written by a couple of people that worked for JP Morgan, and the book is very comprehensive. I am on the Chapter where it gets in to how to do a lbo model. I highly recommend the book, and it says practioner's guide for a reason(It is written by practitioners.) The book is very well written, and from it, you will get a list of some more great books to get into. I have have ordered 2 books that they recommended in the appendix.
Its kind of expensive, but definitely worth the investment
Check out my posts on this topic of good finance books.
http://www.princeofwallstreet.com/2008/01/15/so-you-want-to-be-an-inves…
This list is at the end of the post.
The Prince of Wall Street
http://www.princeofwallstreet.com
http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Banking-Valuation-Leveraged-Acquisitio…
The best book out there
Best publishing houses/authors for finance and economics books/manuals? (Originally Posted: 10/12/2014)
I was wondering that maybe it would be great to have a list of authors or publishing houses that release great reading and learning material related to economics or finance.
Wiley has a huge selection of quality Finance and Investment texts.
Seconding Wiley - most of the finance section of my library are Wiley publications.
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