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Below are some recommendations from HedgeWorld's staff. Click on the book's title to purchase it directly from Amazon.com. We welcome your reviews and suggestions.

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  • Best Sellers


    HEDGE FUNDS OF FUNDS: COMPOSITION AND RISK MANAGEMENT

    by Andrew Grauberg

    Price:  $225.00

    As a definitive and complete quantitative guide to funds of funds, this book covers all the essential elements of the sophisticated portfolio composition: fund screening and risk assessment, stress and sensitivity testing, optimization, and market factor analysis. Explaining why the traditional risk management and asset valuation frameworks are highly misleading for hedge funds, the author introduces the latest alternative models based on the Conditional and the Modified Value-at-Risk. Besides that, a dedicated reader will enjoy the most sophisticated techniques of portfolio global optimization (genetic algorithms) addressing problems of multi extreme nonlinear risk/return functions. This is not all. First in the industry, Dr. Grauberg introduces the models of constructing dynamically adjustable hedge fund portfolios subject to the current market trend. Surprisingly, a dynamically rebalanced portfolio may exhibit higher returns than any underlying funds thus creating an entirely new framework of asset composition.

    UNDERSTANDING PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNTING (SECOND EDITION)

    by Advent Software and the Financial Services Industry Group of American Express, Tax Business Services

    Price:  $49.95

    Understanding Partnership Accounting (Second Edition) is an investment partnership accounting guide written by Advent Software and the Financial Services Industry Group of American Express Tax and Business Services. The book covers the accounting and legal services that investment partnerships require. It also describes how investment partnerships allocate the results of their investments to the partners, including tax reallocations for performance fees, and other tax and reporting issues.

    ACTIVE ASSET ALLOCATION : STATE-OF-THE-ART PORTFOLIO POLICIES, STRATEGIES & TACTICS

    by Robert D. Arnott (Editor), Frank J. Fabozzi (Editor)

    Written to provide answers to the many perplexing problems of assessing and managing the asset mix. Editors Robert Arnott and Frank Fabozzi, along with a host of eminent practitioners and theoreticians, focus on the many dimensions of the asset allocation decision, tactical asset allocation and the risk associated with active asset allocation.

    CORPORATE RISK: STRATEGIES & MANAGEMENT

    by Gregory W. Brown, Donald H. Chew

    Provides a clear understanding of the interaction between business and financial risk for corporations. Looks at how risk management enhances shareholder value. Informative and readable collection of classic and new research on corporate risk management theory from leading academics in the field such as Stulz, Tufano and Smithson. Top corporate risk management practitioners - Dell, McDonald's and Microsoft have contributed "case studies" of their cutting-edge financial risk management practices. Readers with only a limited knowledge of financial theory will be able to grasp the basics of financial risk management as most of the articles were written with practitioners in mind.

    DYNAMIC ASSET ALLOCATION : STRATEGIES FOR THE STOCK, BOND, AND MONEY MARKETS

    by David A. Hammer

    Provides a clear understanding of the interaction between business and financial risk for corporations. Looks at how risk management enhances shareholder value. Informative and readable collection of classic and new research on corporate risk management theory from leading academics in the field such as Stulz, Tufano and Smithson. Top corporate risk management practitioners - Dell, McDonald's and Microsoft have contributed "case studies" of their cutting-edge financial risk management practices. Readers with only a limited knowledge of financial theory will be able to grasp the basics of financial risk management as most of the articles were written with practitioners in mind.

    GLOBAL ASSET ALLOCATION : TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZING PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

    by Jess Lederman (Editor), Robert A. Klein (Editor)

    Discusses the most promising portfolio management strategies in use today-from asset liability forecasting and target asset allocation to the critical time-horizon and implementing overlay strategies. Contains the latest global asset allocation models, forecasting techniques and optimization methods, including passive and active portfolio strategies. Features a special section on chaos theory and its applications to global allocation techniques.

    THE REGULATION OF HEDGE FUND MANAGERS BY THE SEC

    by Terrance J. O'Malley

    Price:  $350.00 + 9.95 S&H

    Hedge fund managers are being watched by the SEC with a careful eye, including those managers who are UNREGISTERED. This easy-to-read, thorough report delivers what all hedge fund managers need to know about SEC oversight.

    HedgeWorld Members receive 10% off list price. To ensure your discount, please click on the title to print out the PDF form and fax it to 212-224-3493.

    THE PRUDENT INVESTOR'S GUIDE TO HEDGE FUNDS : PROFITING FROM UNCERTAINTY AND VOLATILITY

    by James P. Owen

    Hedge funds are typically thought of as highly risky investments. Not so. In fact, some hedge funds are among the most conservative investments you can make. While speculative, high-flying hedge funds make the headlines, others quietly go about the work of crafting unique investment strategies and hedging portfolios against market risk. This much-needed book shows why affluent investors who want to be financially secure through retirement should know about hedge funds. Its blend of facts, practical tips, and personal insights takes the mystery out of this often misunderstood investment vehicle and reveals the critical questions to ask before you invest. James P. Owen (Santa Barbara, CA) has more than 30 years of experience in the investment management industry and is Senior Vice President of Broadmark Asset Management. Previously he was President of JPO Inc. and a partner with NWQ Investment Management Company. He is co-founder of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA); author of the financial bestseller, The Prudent Investor: The Definitive Guide to Professional Investment Management; and was associate producer of the PBS television series, Beyond Wall Street: The Art of Investing.


    MANAGING HEDGE FUND RISK: FROM THE PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE

    Edited by Virginia Reynolds Parker

    Risk management may be a tough topic to swallow, but taken a morsel at a time "Managing Hedge Fund Risk: From the Practitioner's Perspective," is well worth the effort.

    Virginia Reynolds Parker, founder of hedge fund firm Parker Global Strategies, serves up an insider's view of the industry, using the voices of industry professionals working with risk management strategies. She slices and dices the crucial aspects of risk management by assembling and arranging commentary in order to make it easy to understand for hedge fund novices and detailed enough to give the hedge fund expert some new insights.


    STOCK MARKET WIZARDS: INTERVIEWS WITH AMERICA'S TOP STOCK TRADERS

    by Jack D. Schwager

    Acclaimed trading expert and best-selling author of the Market Wizards books, Jack Schwager, has returned with a new and fascinating collection of interviews with the best stock market traders and investors of our time.

    Focusing exclusively on successful players in the stock market, Schwager delivers informative profiles and trading strategies from fifteen traders and investors who have ridden the most dynamic bull market in U.S. history to stunning success.


    PIONEERING PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT

    by David F. Swensen

    Swensen has been the chief investment officer for the past 14 years at Yale University, where he is responsible for managing and investing more than $6 billion of the university's endowment assets and investment funds. Realizing an annual return of more than 16 percent on his investments, Swensen has added more than $2 billion to Yale's coffers, and his consistent track record has attracted the notice of Wall Street portfolio managers. Here Swensen provides a brief history of endowment funds and explains the purpose of endowment accumulation and the goals for institutional portfolios. He distinguishes between traditional and alternative asset classes, looks at performance evaluation issues and tools, and considers the investment decision-making process.

    ~ David Rouse

    THE STREETSMART GUIDE TO SHORT SELLING: TECHNIQUES THE PROS USE TO PROFIT IN ANY MARKET

    by Tom Taulli

    Featured Selections


    The Hedge Fund Edge: Maximum Profit/Minimum Risk Global Trend Trading Strategies
    by Mark Boucher

    Introducing a robust trading strategy that incorporates techniques from both technical and fundamental analysis, Mark Boucher examines the major markets and illustrates where the odds are greatest in the trader's favor.
    ~ John Wiley & Sons
    Modelling and Hedging Equity Derivatives
    by Oliver Brockhaus, Andrew Ferraris, Christopher Gallus, Douglas Long, Reiner Martin, Marcus Overhaus

    A unique reference providing detailed practice-based analysis of modelling & hedging equity derivatives. In-depth analysis of probability theory and stochastic calculus (as well as alternative approaches). Detailed discussion of practical software implementation issues.
    ~Amazon.com
    Macro Trading & Investment Strategies: Macroeconomic Arbitrage in Global Markets
    by Gabriel Burstein

    This book opens with the first systematic presentation with examples of the "global macro" hedge fund investment style, a strategy pioneered by Soros, Robertson et. al. based primarily on (directional) views on macroeconomic trends. This is an original book however proposing a new macro trading and investment strategy: Global Macroeconomic Arbitrage. The new investment philosophy is to detect and take advantage of "holes" between market relations and their underlying macroeconomic relations. The arbitrage of such macroeconomic mispricings in global markets is done through non-directional long/short or overweight/underweight strategies. Although using macroeconomic information, the trades are ultimately long/short and even market neutral which makes macro arbitrage a new long/short trading and investment strategy. Written in the midst of the "global financial crises domino," the book has dozens of examples showing how to use macro arbitrage in market turmoil and how the recent global financial crises contributed to closing macro mispricing gaps in markets. Market dislocations during crisis periods are shown to be macro arbitrage opportunities. The book proposes thus one possible path from subjective macroeconomic views-based investment and trading to arbitraging objective macro mispricings in global markets. Average customer rating of 5 stars.
    ~ Gabriel Burstein
    Investing With the Hedge Fund Giants: Profit Whether Markets Rise or Fall
    by Beverly Chandler

    Investing with the hedge fund giants is intended to give the reader a thorough introduction to the much talked about but much misunderstood world of hedge funds. I very much hope readers enjoy it. Average customer rating of 5 stars.
    ~ Beverly Chandler
    The Money Flood
    by: Michael J. Clowes

    How the spectacular growth of pension funds forever changed investing.
    Over the past fifty years, the pension fund industry has mushroomed into the largest concentration of managed money in the world. The investment decisions and financial innovations of pension fund managers reverberate throughout the global financial markets. Written by a journalist who has covered the pension fund industry for over twenty-five years, The Money Flood tells the story of how the pension fund industry came to dominate the financial markets. It also offers a sobering look into the future when baby boomers will begin removing their vast wealth from the markets and the growing number of 401(k) plans will shift investing power away from the pension fund managers.

    Investment Secrets of a Hedge Fund Manager: Exploiting the Herd Mentality of the Financial Markets
    by Laurence A. Connors, Blake E. Hayward

    This book reveals a host of proven strategies to trade the stock, futures and options markets. Simple and easy to use, the strategies are designed to take advantage of the herd mentality of the financial markets and the tendency of the majority of investors to panic at certain identifiable moments. All of the indicators revealed in the book are based on what actually happens in the markets-not on an abstract, difficult-to-apply theory. Moreover, each strategy is fully explained and includes many concrete examples. Clear, hard-headed and realistic, this is superb book for traders and investor who are seeking proven methods for beating markets. Highlights included: Proprietary market indicators revealed for the first time; New short-term trading patterns and indicators; Profitable trading strategies using globex and other night-trading markets; Putting together a profitable trading plan. Average customer rating of 5 stars.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Street Smarts; High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies
    by Laurence A. Connors, Linda B. Raschke

    Published in 1996 and written by Larry Connors and "New Market Wizard" Linda Raschke. This 245 page manual is considered by many to be one of the best books written on trading futures. Twenty-five years of combined trading experience is divulged as you will learn 20 of their best strategies.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Derivatives for Decision Makers: Strategic Management Issues
    by George Crawford, Bidyut C. Sen (Contributor)

    Written in down-to-earth language everyone can understand, this book uses common examples from business and the markets to explain how derivatives work and how they are being used right now. Armed with its insights, executives, attorneys, accountants, and corporate board members will understand derivatives well enough to ask the right questions of themselves, their employees and their trusted advisors. It covers the principles of derivatives, from their use in common situations such as refinancing a mortgage, through advanced financial applications. Goes beyond media coverage to explain recent derivatives use, misuse, and regulation.
    ~ John Wiley & Sons
    Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Investing: A Professional Investor's Guide
    by William J. Crerend, Robert A. Jaeger

    Hedge funds have always been characterized by limited accessibility, brilliant fund managers, and reports of unusually aggressive strategies--along with the potential for unusually high returns. Over the years, professional money managers and institutional and high-net worth investors have committed sizable amounts of investment capital to hedge funds. Unfortunately, far too many have done so without a solid understanding of both the opportunities and the risks inherent in this dynamic investment class. Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Investing begins to unlock the world of hedge funds--the managers, the strategies, and the investment itself. This uncommonly objective analysis addresses crucial hedge fund questions, including: how to approach the choice of a hedge fund manager appropriate for your investment style and risk attitude; detailed descriptions of the types of hedge fund strategies; examples of both generic and specific analysis useful for evaluating a hedge fund. As they consider the prospect of equities falling back to historical levels of return, institutional investors search for alternative methods of investing as well as diversifying sizable portfolios. Hedge funds are gaining in acceptance and popularity. The authoritative and comprehensive Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Investing contains explanations of hedge fund basics as well as investing strategies and technical insights, and represents a quality resource in hedge fund information.
    ~ From the Back Cover
    Corporate Hedging In Theory And Practice Lessons from Metallgesellschaft
    by Christopher L. Culp, Merton H. Miller

    This is the only comprehensive reference book on the MG debcle and the corporate hedging debate. It features alternative perspectives of corporate hedging design and risk management from leading theoreticians and original insights from Nobel economist Merton H Miller and Christopher L Culp.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It
    By Nicholas Dunbar

    In September 1998, a consortium of 14 major securities firms and commercial banks injected $3.65 billion into a failed hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management, in order to avert a systemic global financial crisis. Aside from the scale of it, what was so shocking about this rescue was that until that summer LTCM had been widely considered, in the words of Congresswoman Marge Roukema, the "Cadillac of hedge funds." Investors believed their money was secure in the hands of John Meriwether, formerly of Salomon Brothers; David Mullen, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve; and Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, Nobel laureates in economics.

    Nicholas Dunbar exploits the dramatic qualities of this controversial story in "Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It."

    Read the review in our News section.
    Derivative Markets and Investment Management
    by Mark Fox-Andrews, Nicola Meaden (Contributor)

    This book presents an insider's guide to derivatives, the hottest financial vehicle of the '90s. KEY TOPICS: Today's money managers know that derivates offer the potential for extraordinary returns. But to make intelligent decisions about them, investors need to understand them--in depth. The authors walk through the history of derivatives markets, and explain today's derivative products in detail. They cover the legal and regulatory implications of derivatives, and explain how to use performance benchmarks to avoid unnecessary risk. Their perspective is global, and they present detailed case studies from the U.S., Europe, Japan and the U.K. All corporate, institutional, professional and retail investors.
    Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes
    by Bruce I. Jacobs, Harry M. Markowitz

    Jacobs' book will be an education to the newcomers, a reminder to the veterans, and a warning to all [pension fund and other investors] that the dangers of options replication are not behind us. It should be read by all. And it is to be hoped his warnings this time will be better heeded than his warnings [on portfolio insurance] of 1983.

    Value at Risk : A New Benchmark for Measuring Derivatives Risk
    by Philippe Jorion

    Do you take the chance of creating and amplifying risk when you are simply attempting to understand and control risk? In Phillippe Jorion's Value at Risk, learn the specifics of the value-at-risk system, the risk management program that today's leading banks and financial firms use to calculate and track financial risk. Value at Risk is the first book to thoroughly explain this increasingly influential system, which allows you to gauge financial risks and take proactive steps to control those risks.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies
    by Ronald A. Lake (Editor)

    An essential guide to all aspects of hedge funds from its origins and industry dynamics to strategies; assessing risk to performance benchmarks, this book offers practical advice on how to implement and manage a successful hedge fund strategy. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes expanded introductory information plus new chapters covering hedge funds and emerging markets; convertible arbitrage; opportunistic investing; investors' strategies; opportunities and pitfalls; risk control techniques and the impact of investment technology.
    ~ Amazon.com
    The Hedge Fund Handbook: A Definitive Guide for Analyzing and Evaluating Alternative Investments
    by Stefano Lavinio

    The Hedge Fund Handbook provides new tools and frameworks for understanding these complex funds, with the emphasis on risk measurement and management. Extensive charts and graphs demonstrate the inadequacies of traditional methods of analysis while offering the reader a striking new method for detailed, accurate analysis.
    ~Amazon.com
    Hedge Funds: Investment and Portfolio Strategies for the Institutional Investor (The Irwin Asset Allocation Series for Institutional Investors)
    by Jess Lederman (Editor), Robert A. Klein (Contributor)

    This guide provides strategies for coping with volatile returns and profiting with this exciting new asset class. Specific topics include: Profiles of major funds; Historical performance of hedge funds; Hedge funds as a part of the institutional portfolio; Selecting a hedge fund manager; Legal, tax and accounting issues.
    ~Amazon.com
    When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
    by Roger Lowenstein

    Enfield, Conn. (HedgeWorld.com) –Long-Term Capital Management was to the manor born in February 1994, opening with more than $1 billion of investors’ money and favorable buzz. The brainchild of John Meriwether, former vice chairman of Salomon Brothers, LTCM recorded phenomenal early success, but like the legendary Icarus, the fund flew too close to the sun and fell spectacularly. The effects of this collapse continue to be felt in financial markets around the globe.

    The story of the collapse also continues to absorb the world of publishing. In January, John Wiley & Sons brought out Nicholas Dunbar’s book on LTCM and on (as the subtitle said) “the legends behind it.” Now Random House offers an account by Roger Lowenstein. The accounts differ because Mr. Dunbar told the story of the parties, whereas Mr. Lowenstein tells the story of the counterparties.
    Investing in Hedge Funds
    by Joseph G. Nicholas

    One of the first books to demystify hedge funds, this insightful, practical, and easy-to-follow guide provides how-to strategies accompanied by insights from top fund managers.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Market-Neutral Investing : Long/Short Hedge Fund Strategies
    by Joseph G. Nicholas

    Achieve ideal returns by diversifying away risk. Managing risk is a weightier issue than ever for professional investors. They're seeking downside protection as they grapple to remain fully invested in a hyper-inflated stock market. Market-neutral investing is one of the hottest strategies for achieving such protection. In this groundbreaking book, industry expert Joseph G. Nicholas opens investors up to new thinking on highly effective approaches to return enhancement and risk reduction through investment diversification. Nicholas shows how market-neutral investing techniques hedge exposures--to neutralize the impact of market volatility on investment performance. Nicholas shows the reader how to apply these approaches to a variety of investments from equity trades and fixed-income instruments, to convertibles and merger arbitrage. This is the one book that looks at market-neutral strategies head on, assessing strategies that have worked and those that have failed--and explaining why. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Market-Neutral Investing is an invaluable guide for professional money managers.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Deals...Deals...and More Deals
    by Regina Pitaro

    Risk Arbitrage. Mergers and Acquisitions. This book raises, in a clear and accessible prose, some complicated questions for investors, fund managers, and public policy makers about merger arbitrage, described as "the simple bet that an announced merger will definitely be completed", by author Regina M. Pitaro. Ms. Pitaro, Managing Director of Gabelli Asset Management Inc., who protects itself against risky returns by investing across a spectrum of many announced deals, illustrates that risk arbitrage can be accomplished by ordinary folks with low risk and explains the fundamental research tools that help you evaluate the likely return from any deal.
    ~Book Description

    Read the review in our News section.
    Risk Budgeting: A New Approach to Investing
    Edited by Leslie Rahl, Capital Market Risk Advisors


    A practical and authoritative introduction to the concept of risk unit allocation as an alternative and more effective decision-making process for long-term investors.

    Read the review in our News section.
    The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies
    by Thomas Schneeweis (Editor), Joseph F. Pescatore

    The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies brings you strategic insights and practical research on institutional investments in a range of alternative asset classes by the most successful practitioners and leading applied academics. In a single volume of over 300 pages, The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies is your complete guide to portfolio techniques, asset allocation, performance measurement and product selection in a range of assets including: hedge funds, managed futures, derivatives, private equity and venture capital, oil ; gas, energy futures, and more. It's the latest thinking by the leading experts that you need to know to make informed decisions on investing and avoid pitfalls in illiquid, high-risk investments. This book is a must-read for all senior-level investment decision-makers, including: Hedge Fund Managers, Portfolio Managers, Corporate Plan Sponsors, Family Office Executives, Insurance Company Executives, Institutional Salespersons and Consultants, and Chief Investment Officers.
    ~ Amazon.com
    Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
    by George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (Contributor), Bryon Wien (Contributor)

    George Soros, who is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today, reveals his views on investing and global finance as well as his take on today's complex world order. Written in an engaging question-and-answer, interview format, the book examines Soros's personal opinions and explores his investing philosophy.
    ~Amazon.com
    Getting Started in Hedge Funds
    by Daniel A. Strachman

    Here is the first book to explore hedge funds in their entirety-not just the super funds-from their inception to how funds operate, their effect on world economies and currencies, and the players. Financial writer and trader Daniel Strachman demystifies the world of hedge funds and provides objective yet substantive information that explains what hedge funds are, why they exist, and their purpose for the investor.

    Read the review in our News section.
    Dynamic Hedging : Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance Editions)
    by Nassim Taleb

    Dynamic Hedging provides a real-world methodology for managing portfolios containing any nonlinear security. It presents risks from the vantage point of the option market maker and arbitrage operator. The only book about derivatives risk written by an experienced trader with theoretical training, it remolds the entire option theory to fit a practitioner's environment.
    ~ Nassim Taleb, 1997.
    High-Risk, High-Return Investing
    by Lawrence W. Tuller

    Shows how to make unconventional, offbeat but always calculated speculative investments. Contains sound financial planning and prudent investment management guidance. Explores emerging, undervalued, third-world stock markets, debt/equity swaps and reverse LBOs. Securitized assets, troubled and start-up companies, foreclosed properties and junk bonds are also included.
    ~ John Wiley & Sons
    Searching for Alpha: The Quest for Exceptional Investment Performance
    By Ben Warwick

    Ben Warwick, a principal of The Bornhoft Group and of Warwick Capital Management, has directed this book primarily at students of finance - people who have a scholarly curiosity about the workings of capital markets, beyond any expectation of direct utility.

    Mr. Warwick delivers mini-biographies of figures such as John Maynard Keynes and Roger Babson. He provides in a single, smallish volume information on such varied topics as the tulip price bubble of the 1630s and Joe Leiter’s attempt to corner the Chicago wheat market in 1897.

    Read the review in our News section.
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    General Investing Titles


    Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes-And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics
    by Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich

    Why do so many otherwise rational individuals make irrational decisions when it comes to money? Financial journalist Gary Belsky and Cornell University psychology professor Thomas Gilovich contend the answers can be found--and the deficiencies remedied--with help from a relatively new science called behavioral economics. In Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes , Belsky and Gilovich show readers how to understand exactly why they invest, spend, and save as they do. More importantly, using examples that everyone can identify with and language that anyone can understand, the authors offer dozens of workable suggestions that can help readers manage their money better.
    - Amazon.com
    Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (Barron's Financial Guides)
    by John Downes (Preface), Elliot Goodman, Jordan Elliot Goodman (Preface)

    A small but surprisingly comprehensive dictionary defining over 5,000 terms. The sturdy binding will hold up to a great deal of travel. This is a very practical and inexpensive gift for any businessperson or anyone interested in finance and investment.
    Technical Analysis of Stock Trends
    by Robert D. Edwards, John F. Magee

    For fifty years, this universally acclaimed classic has remained the bible on technical stock analysis. Today, with over 850,000 copies sold, it's well on its way to becoming a million-copy seller.
    The seventh edition explains every aspect of charting -- from basic principles to advanced trading techniques -- to help investors make money regardless of what the market is doing. Completely updated and revised, it features new charts and references, as well as chapters on derivatives options, and futures trading.
    Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk
    by Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn

    A revision of one of McGraw-Hill's most significant investment works--and an important addition to the Irwin Library of Investment and Finance. Written by two of today's top investment theorists, Active Portfolio Management reflects some of the most original and most powerful thinking in the field of investment management today. The book provides a highly rigorous approach to understanding and profiting from active investment - that is, the style of investing that is designed to beat the market. For money managers, the book shows how to transform their market insights into profitable investment strategies. For institutional investors, the book shows how to analyze and select superior money managers. And for the academics, the book breaks new ground in the important area of investment performance and evaluation.
    Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection
    by Bruce I. Jacobs, Harry M. Markowitz, Kenneth Levy

    Two pioneers and innovators in the money management field present their choice of groundbreaking, peer-reviewed articles on subjects including portfolio engineering and long-short investment strategy. More than just a collection of classic review pieces, however, Equity Management provides new material to introduce, interpret, and integrate the pieces, with an introduction that provides an authoritative overview of the chapters.
    On Money and Markets A Wall Street Memoir
    by Henry Kaufman, Paul Volcker

    Henry Kaufman is the Wall Street legend who founded the science of Federal Reserve watching, now a popular spectator sport. In a career that spans the last 50 years, his views and forecasts have grown increasingly influential, and his pronouncements often move markets, earning him the sobriquet "Dr. Doom" because of his oft-expressed concern about financial excesses and the failure of regulators to take steps to prevent them from occurring. "Policy can not be predicated on the assumption that reasonable financial behavior is the norm," he writes. On Money and Markets is both a personal memoir and a historical retrospective in which he elaborates on these concerns and prescribes a reorganization of the IMF and the World Bank and the creation of a new international entity with oversight of major financial institutions and markets.
    - Amazon.com
    One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
    by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (Contributor)

    Peter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
    Now, in a new introduction written specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street, Lynch gives his take on the incredible rise of Internet stocks, as well as a list of twenty winning companies of high-tech '90s. That many of these winners are low-tech supports his thesis that amateur investors can continue to reap exceptional rewards from mundane, easy-to-understand companies they encounter in their daily lives.
    The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing
    by Kenneth M. Morris, Virginia B. Morris, Alan M. Siegel

    This handy fact-filled book initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages -- buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate, forthright and lively alternative. -
    Amazon.com
    Irrational Exuberance
    by Robert J. Shiller

    "Given the title of Mr. Shiller's book, you can guess the punch line. He makes a powerful case that the soaring stock market of recent years is a huge, accidental Ponzi scheme in progress, one that will come to a very bad end. The book actually focuses on the market broadly defined (most numbers are for the S.&P. 500), but it reads even better as a tale of the tech stocks" - Paul Krugman, The New York Times
    The Longterm Day Trader: Shortterm Strategies to Boost Your Longterm Profits
    by Michael Sincere, Deron Wagner

    Find out how you can use the short-term strategies of the professional day trader to improve your long-term returns. It doesn't matter whether you are a short-term trader or a long-term investor. By using the most profitable tactics of the top day traders, you really can boost your long-term returns.
    Author and long-term investor Michael Sincere prefers to buy high-quality stocks, mutual funds, and index funds. Professional day trader Deron Wagner believes in short-term trading tactics. The Long-Term Day Trader is a synthesis of both strategies.
    ChangeWave Investing: Picking the Next Monster Stocks of the New Economy
    by Tobin Smith

    Don't we all wish we could identify that next big, breakout stock and jump in before everyone else? Investment professional Tobin Smith believes he's developed a solid means to that end, and he lays it out with contagious confidence in ChangeWave Investing.
    Some of the jargon-laden process may befuddle casual investors, but serious stock watchers searching for an ambitious and original strategy with high upside (and commensurate risk, to be sure) may just want to strap on a virtual seat belt and see for themselves.
    - Amazon.com
    Valuing Wall Street Protecting Wealth in Turbulent Markets
    by Andrew Smithers, Stephen Wright

    "Most books about the stock market tell you how to make money. This one ... will show you how to avoid losing it," begins this smart, blunt, cautionary tale based on Nobel laureate James Tobin's 1969 "q ratio," which posits, among other things, that no matter how bullish a market gets, it's bound to snap back into place at some point--and those who don't brace for the reversal will feel its sting. The authors, one a prominent asset-allocation adviser and the other a former head of macroeconomic forecasting for the Bank of England, warn that it's only a matter of time before the over exuberant market of the early 21st-century topples like its counterparts in 1929 and 1968. Here they set out to show why and how this would happen--as well as to tell stockholders what they should and should not do if they want to emerge intact.
    - Amazon.com
    The Millionaire Mind
    by Thomas J. Stanley

    Building on his research from the best-selling The Millionaire Next Door, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley delves further into the psyche of the American millionaire with a groundbreaking new study, The Millionaire Mind.
    In an easy-to-understand and often-anecdotal style, The Millionaire Mind tells the stories of how people-a bus driver, a second-quality-textile entrepreneur, a Fortune 500 CEO-adopted the millionaire mindset to become financially independent.
    Dr. Stanley takes a close look at the top one percent of households in America and tells us what makes them tick. His findings on how American millionaires attained financial success are based on in-depth surveys and interviews with more than 1,300 millionaires.
    - Hugh T. Andrews, publisher
    Quantitative Analysis for Investment Management
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    Consider Your Options is a very good overview of the tax and financial planning implications of stock options, written in a way that's useful to experts and understandable to those who are not.
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