The Panic of 1907

lessons learned from the market's perfect storm

Foreword by William J. Bernstein. 'Before reading "The Panic of 1907", the year 1907 seemed like a long time ago and a different world. The authors, however, bring this story alive in a fast-moving book, and the reader sees how events of that time are ...

Buffett

the biography

Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett has amassed an astonishing fortune - a net worth of $64 billion and counting. His awesome investment record has made him a cult figure popularly known for his seeming contradictions: he is a ...

Capital ideas evolving

'A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal "Capital Ideas". Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics ...

Dynamics of markets

the new financial economics

This second edition presents the advances made in finance market analysis since 2005. The book provides a careful introduction to stochastic methods along with approximate ensembles for a single, historic time series. The new edition explains the history leading up to the biggest economic disaster ...

The fat tail

the power of political knowledge for strategic investing

Civil wars, acts of terror, seizures of private industries--the world is a dangerous place for investors. Indeed, it is more dangerous today than ten or twenty years ago, because of the growing importance of emerging and frontier markets. Even many relatively passive or risk averse ...

La Bolsa en tu bolsillo

guía fácil para entender la Bolsa y el Mercado de Valores

En el auge bursátil de finales del siglo xx pudo dar la impresión de que los inversores conocían bien el funcionamiento de la Bolsa. Cuando los mercados financieros cayeron en barrena a principios de este siglo, éstos no entendieron qué estaba pasando. Muchos de estos ...

La información de bolsa

La crisis financiera y la situación de recesión económica global ha aparcado una sección de la economía que hasta hace muy poco vivía un auge desconocido. El aumento de las inversiones de la última década del siglo XX y la popularización del mercado de valores ...

Security analysis

principios y técnica

Prólogo de Warren E. Buffet.Se trata de la obra más ambiciosa de Benjamin Graham. Publicada por primera vez en 1934, en ella Graham explica con profundidad los distintos tipos de valores de inversión, sus caracteríasticas, ventajas y desventajas, para permitir a pequeños y grandes ...

The little book of main street money

21 simple truths that help real people make real money

This title provides commonsense investing truths for everyone, from a popular and critically acclaimed journalist. In a world gone mad with bizarre credit derivatives, interest-only mortgages, and collapsing markets, we still need to manage our money, put our kids through college, and save for retirement ...

Market panic

wild gyrations, risks and opportunities in stock markets

Many investors were lulled into complacency by the stock market bull run stretching from 2003 to 2007. Now that the markets have moved into extreme bear territory investors are wondering what to do and whether it is still the case that equities have delivered the ...

The snowball

Warren Buffett and the business of life

Warren Buffett is one of the most respected men in the world. But the legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir or offered a glimpse into his intensely private life. Here, at last, he gives unprecedented access to this work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies ...

Dividends, and dividen policy

As part of the Robert W. Kolb "Series in Finance", "Dividends and Dividend Policy" aims to be the essential guide to dividends and their impact on shareholder value. Issues concerning dividends and dividend policy have always posed challenges to both academics and professionals. While all ...

Invertir a contracorriente

cómo hacer trabajar al dinero

#El libro que esperaban todos los inversores. El mejor inversor de la City revela los secretos de su éxito.# Matthew Vincent. Editor de FT Money, Financial Times. En #Invertir a contracorriente# Anthony Bolton revela todos los secretos del éxito de su enfoque de administración del ...

The myth of the rational market

a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street

Starred Review. At the core of the current financial crisis has been the widely held assumption that markets behave rationally. Fox, Time magazine editor-at-large, isn't the first to bring scrutiny#or censure#to the conceit, but his analysis is singularly compelling, and the rare ...

Memorias de un operador de bolsa

la biografía novelada de Jesse Livermore, uno de los mayores especuladores de todos los tiempos

Larry Livingstone, alter ego del especulador Jesse Livermore (1877- 1940), el mayor especulador de todos los tiempos, tiene una rara habilidad para prever el comportamiento de las cotizaciones de Bolsa y el ansia de un especulador nato. A los 15 años gana sus primeros 1 ...

Bailout nation

how greed and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy

This book provides a riveting indictment of those responsible for our current financial mess. "Bailout Nation" offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for the financial crisis of 2008. Written by Barry Ritholtz, one of today's most ...

Confusión de confusiones

Dialogos curiosos entre un philosopho agudo, un mercader discreto, y un accionista erudito, descrviendo el negocio de las Acciones, su origen, su ethimologia, su realidad, su juego, y su enredo

El primer libro sobre el trato con valores y acciones, un estupendo relato de Bolsa

Chasing Alpha

how reckless growth and unchecked ambitation ruined the city's golden decade

In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. The incoming Labour government gave the Bank of England independence, it introduced a state of the art system of light-touch regulation; and it signalled that it was happy to see finance let ...

How I became a quant

insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite

Praise for "How I Became a Quant": 'Led by two top-notch quants, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter, "How I Became a Quant" details the quirky world of quantitative analysis through stories told by some of today's most successful quants. For anyone who might ...

The investor's manifesto

preparing for prosperity, Armageddon, and everything in between

With the current market maelstrom as a background, this timely guide describes just how to plan a lifetime of investing, in good times and bad, discussing stocks and bonds as well as the relationship between risk and return. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice ...