55 Investment Books You Need To Read

February 20, 2016
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Quantitative Value by Wesley Gray, Tobias Carlisle

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1118328078″ locale=”US” src=”http://www.sharkinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/51Cs2deD6fL.SL160.jpg” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″ width=”107″]Who: Gray is a finance professor and Carlisle an M&A lawyer.
What: This fascinating book provides a blueprint for creating a quantitative value strategy, leveraging the wisdom of some of the greatest investors through a systematic rules based approach, and avoiding the risk of human decision making biases.
When: Originally published in 2012
Where: [easyazon_link identifier=”1118328078″ locale=”US” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″]Here[/easyazon_link]

Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune by Patrick O’Shaughnessy

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1137279257″ locale=”US” src=”http://www.sharkinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/51li1lg2BjL.SL160.jpg” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″ width=”106″]Who: O’Shaughnessy is an author and fund manager.
What: This book provides empirical evidence that stock market investing is the best means by which you have historically been able to generate positive inflation and tax adjusted returns over the very long term, and it encourages young investors to adopt a long term investment horizon and invest in stocks.
When: Originally published in 2014
Where: [easyazon_link identifier=”1137279257″ locale=”US” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″]Here[/easyazon_link]

A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan by Ben Carlson

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1119024927″ locale=”US” src=”http://www.sharkinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/511geLB7HRL.SL160.jpg” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″ width=”107″]Who: Carlson runs an investment blog focused on behavioral finance.
What: The strength of this book is in focusing on what really matters and leaving out what doesn’t. It will teach you why it is important to focus on the long term, diversify, identify and manage risk etc., but it will also dispel many of the common market myths that may otherwise distract your attention.
When: Originally published in 2015
Where: [easyazon_link identifier=”1119024927″ locale=”US” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″]Here[/easyazon_link]

The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence Cunningham

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”1611637589″ locale=”US” src=”http://www.sharkinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/51vwjJJLwqL.SL160.jpg” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″ width=”105″]Who: Cunningham is amongst other things an author and professor of law.
What: Cunningham has reorganized Buffet’s famous investor’s letters sent to shareholders into single-subject chapters in a way that clearly communicates Buffet’s time tested investment principles. A book packed to the brim with investment wisdom.
When: Originally published in 1998
Where: [easyazon_link identifier=”1611637589″ locale=”US” tag=”sharkinvestor00-20″]Here[/easyazon_link]

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