Reading list
I have always been an avid reader and the majority of my knowledge about finance and investment management has been self-taught. This page contains a list of the books which I have read and highly recommend to anyone interested in a career in financial services.
Value Investing Books
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Literally everyone, Equity Analysts, and Portfolio Managers
Margin of Safety - Seth Klarman
Literally everyone, Equity Analysts, and Portfolio Managers
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - P.Fisher
Equity Analysts, Growth Investors, and Portfolio Managers
Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
Equity Analysts, Portfolio Managers, People who loved the Intelligent Investor
Extraordinary Popular Delusions ... - C. Mackay
Historians, Equity Analysts, and people fascinated by "Mr. Market"
Quantitative Value Investing - Wesley Gray
Quantitative Analysts and Portfolio Managers
The Essays of Warren Buffet - Warren Buffet
Auditors, Investors, Executives, and people interested in good governance
Trading & Wall Street Books
Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough
Investment Bankers, Executives, and people interested in Finance
Liars Poker, The book that ... - Michael Lewis
Traders, Fixed Income Analysts, and people interested in Bond Markets
The Greatest Trade Ever Made - Gregory Zuckerman
Traders, Quantitative Analysts, and people interested in the Financial Crisis
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst - Dan Reingold
Equity Analysts, People interested in buy-side conflicts of interest
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Traders, Quantitative Analysts, and people interested in the Financial Crisis
Nick Leeson's Rogue Trader - Nick Leeson
Traders, Auditors, people interested in rogue trading
Dark Pools, the rise of A.I ... - Scott Patterson
Algo traders, Quantitative Analysts, High Frequency Traders
Quantitative Finance Books
The Crisis of Crowding - L. Chincarini
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and Portfolio Managers
Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance
Everyone interested in getting into quantitative finance and those already in it!
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives - C.Hull
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and Portfolio Managers
A Random Walk Down Wall Street - B.G Malkiel
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and Portfolio Managers
When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
Quantitative Analysts, Portfolio Managers, people interested in the LTCM crisis
The Quants, how a new ... - Scott Patterson
Quantitative analysts and people interested in becoming quantitative analysts
Quantitative Trading - Ernest Chan
Quantitative analysts and people interested in becoming quantitative analysts
The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
Quantitative Analysts, and Financial Engineers
Artificial Intelligence Books
Computational Intelligence, an Introduction - A.P. Engelbrecht
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and people interested in Computational Finance
Computational Swarm Intelligence - A.P. Engelbrecht
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and people interested in Computational Finance
Natural Computing in Computational Finance vol. 1-4 - Various
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and people interested in Computational Finance
Biologically Inspired Algorithms for Financial Modelling - Various
Quantitative Analysts, Financial Engineers, and people interested in Computational Finance
Programming Books
The Art of Computer Programming (vol. 1-4b)
Anybody programmer who owns a bookshelf should have this set
Design Patterns - The Gang of Four (GoF)
Software developers, engineers, and architects who want to develop reusable code
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming - M. Herlihy
Software developers, and engineers who want to develop parallel code
General Business Books
Good to Great, Why Some Companies ... - Jim Collins
Executives, Investors, Portfolio Managers (for Qualitative Criteria)
Built to Last, Successful Habits of ... - Jim Collins
Executives, Investors, Portfolio Managers (for more Qualitative Criteria)
It's a Long Way from Penny Apples - Bill Cullen
A classic 'rags to riches' tale for anybody who needs some inspiration
The Art of War (Military Strategy) - Sun Tzu
Executives, and anybody else who want to learn about strategy
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
For people interested in people and behaviour (great for investors and economists)
Iconoclast, a neuroscientist ... - Gregory Berns
For people interested in how the brain works and why we think differently
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
For people interests in how the brain works and why we form habits (good and bad)
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf - John Coates
Traders, and people interested in behavioural finance