Buy, Sell, or Hold?
How well do you manage your investments? Do you know when to buy, sell, or hold new or existing stocks to grow your portfolio?
Learn to understand modern finance and dip your toes into the complex world of investments with this specially curated list of books!
The Intelligent Investor (Revised Edition)
Benjamin Graham's philosophy of "value investing"—which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies—has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. Preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig—incorporating the realities of today's market, drawing parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and helping readers understand how to apply Graham's principles in today's world.
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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial struggle? Is the difference found in their education, intelligence, skills, timing, work habits, contacts, luck, or their choice of jobs, businesses, or investments? In this groundbreaking book, T. Harv Eker provides insights on your money blueprint, and reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it.
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It started on a subreddit forum called WallStreetBets—a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment tips, laughed about big losses, and posted diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop—a flailing bricks and mortar video-game retailer. This is a fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who captivated the world during one of the most volatile weeks in financial history.
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During one crazy week in January 2021, a motley crew of retail traders on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets forum had seemingly done the impossible—they had brought some of the biggest, richest players on Wall Street to their knees. Their weapon was GameStop, a failing retailer whose shares briefly became the most-traded security on the planet and the subject of intense media coverage. But the surprising truth is that what appeared to be a watershed moment—a revolution that stripped the ultra-powerful hedge funds of their market influence, placing power back in the hands of everyday investors—only increased the chances of the house winning.
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We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles. Legendary investor Howard Marks offers insights on learning recurring patterns that influence markets and investing behaviour, and mastering them to have the opportunity to improve your results.
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Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. In this fast-paced narrative, veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman examines how Simons launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street, and reveals the impact that Simons, the quiet billionaire king of the quants, has had on worlds well beyond finance.
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In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, the British banking industry had come to a standstill. Trust in the sector had been left in tatters and, despite the emergence of technologies which could revolutionise the customer experience, nobody wanted to upset the status quo. In Banking On It, the founder of Starling Bank, winner of Best British Bank three years running, reveals how she broke through bureaucracy, successfully tackled prejudice to realise her vision for the future of consumer banking, and revolutionised the entire industry forever.
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The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
There’s a lot written on cryptocurrency and blockchains. But, for the uninitiated, most of this information can be indecipherable. The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains provides a clear guide to this new currency and the revolutionary technology that powers it. Learn how to discover the risks and mitigations, identify scams, and understand cryptocurrency exchanges, digital wallets, and regulations with this book!
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In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of kleptocracy and corruption. This book follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, enriching oligarchs, and poisoning democracies, showing how the thieves are uniting—and the terrible human cost.
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In The Platform Delusion, Jonathan Knee demystifies the success of the biggest digital companies in sectors from retail to media to software to hardware, offering readers what those companies don’t want everyone else to know. Knee’s insights are invaluable for entrepreneurs and investors in digital businesses seeking to understand what drives resilience and profitability for the long term.
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In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Now, in Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. This is a iconoclastic investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, and Taleb’s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.
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In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of “Chimerica” into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens.
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In Putin’s People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. This is a gripping and terrifying account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray—the relentless seizure of private companies, taking over the economy, siphoning of billions—with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.
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A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to reveal what makes winning networks thrive, why some startups fail to successfully scale, and, most crucially, why products that create and compete using the network effect are vitally important today.
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From the Financial Times’s global finance correspondent Robin Wigglesworth, Trillions is the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and endured Wall Street’s scorn to launch the index fund revolution. They democratised investing, saving hundreds of billions of dollars in fees that would have otherwise lined fat cats’ pockets. An essential reading for anyone who wants to understand modern finance!
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