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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

      Lowenstein


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"
  

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