Investment Banking Reading List
Bios:
▪ “The Accidental Investment Banker” – Jonathan Knee▪ “The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend: Bernard Baruch" - James Grant
▪ "Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger" - Janet
Lowe▪ "In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington" - Robert Rubin
▪ "Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader" - Richard Smitten
▪ "John Neff on Investing" - John Neff
▪ “The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Feres & Co” – William Cohan
▪ "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders" - Jack Schwager
▪ "The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market" - Leon Levy
▪ "Money Masters of Our Time" - John Train
▪ "My Own Story" - Bernard Baruch
▪ "The New Money Masters" - John Train
▪ "No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets" - Michael Steinhardt
▪ “The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race From Wharton to Wall Street” – Nicole Ridgway
▪ "Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders" - Jack Schwager
▪ "When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management" - Roger
General Business:
▪ "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" - Malcolm Gladwell▪ "Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors" - Michael E. Porter
▪ "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't" - Jim Collins
▪ "Making Great Decisions in Business & Life" - David R. Henderson & Charles L. Hooper
▪ "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" - Michael Lewis
▪ "My Years With General Motors" - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
▪ "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference" - Malcolm Gladwell
Finance/Investing Philosophy - General:
▪ "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" - Peter L. Bernstein▪ "Beating the Street" - Peter Lynch
▪ "Classics: An Investor's Anthology" - Charles D. Ellis
▪ "Classics: An Investor's Anthology, Vol. 2" - Charles D. Ellis
▪ "Developing an Investment Philosophy" - Philip A. Fisher
▪ "Hedge Hogging" - Barton Biggs
▪ "Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" - Charles Kindleberger
▪ "Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor" - Seth A. Klarman
▪ "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market" - Peter Lynch
▪ "Value Investing" - Martin Whitman
▪ "Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond" - Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema
▪ "The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy" – Robert G. Hagstrom
▪ "Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls" - Charles D. Ellis
▪ "Wall Street People: True Stories of the Great Barons of Finance, Vol. 2" - Charles D. Ellis
Finance/Investing - Technical:
▪ “Accounting for M&A, Equity, Credit Analysts” – James Morris
▪ “Analysis for Financial Management” – Robert Higgins
▪ “Excel Applications for Corporate Finance” – Troy A. Adair
▪ "Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud In Financial Reports" - Howard Schilit
▪ "Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies" - Tom Copeland (McKinsey & Company, Inc.)
LBOs:
▪ "Big Deal: 2000 and Beyond" - Bruce Wasserstein
▪ "Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business" - George Anders
▪ "Takeovers II: A Strategist's Manual for Business Combinations in the 1990s" - Ferrara, Brown, Hall, Presser
Newspapers:
▪ Barron’s
▪ Financial Times
▪ Investors Business Daily
▪ The New York Times
▪ USA Today
▪ Wall Street Journal
Periodicals:
▪ Bloomberg Markets
▪ BusinessWeek
▪ Forbes
▪ Fortune
▪ Institutional Investor
Websites:
▪ www.bloomberg.com
▪ www.investopedia.com
▪ www.valueinvestorinsight.com
▪ www.leggmason.com/funds/knowledge/mauboussin/mauboussin.asp
DVDs:
▪ "Buffett & Gates Go Back to School"
▪ "Buffett & Gates on Success"
▪ "Charlie Rose: Warren Buffett - In His Own Words" w/DVD Extras
▪ "Vintage Buffett - Warren Buffett Shares His Wealth"
▪ "Warren Buffett - Money Master"
▪ "Warren Buffett: Woodstock for Capitalists"
