Industry Background

By: Jeffrey Little & Lucien Rhodes 2004 ed. Over the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped investors at every level understand exactly how the stock market works, and how they can build strong portfolios while limiting their exposure to risk.

By: Bruce Wasserstein 2001 ed. The national bestseller from one of Wall Street's top dealmakers provides an insider's look into the billion-dollar deals that shape the economy and explains how they change the way we live. Includes a new chapter on recent mergers.

By: Jeremy Siegel 1998 ed. This classic guide has been revised to include today's most successful investment strategies. With its phenomenal analysis of financial market returns since 1802, no other book offers such an in-depth historical--and yet timely--perspective on what drives the market.

By: Lisa Endlich 2000 ed. Goldman Sachs, the nation's leading investment firm, with a solid-gold reputation and a first-class list of clients, began as a family business in a lower Manhattan basement in 1869. The secrets behind the remarkable success of Goldman Sachs since then are revealed in unprecedented depth in this fascinating narrative history of the firm.

By: Burton Malkiel 2004 ed. The million-copy bestseller, now fully up-to-date and ready for post-dot-com investors."A Random Walk Down Wall Street" is well established as a staple of the business shelf, the first book any investor should read before taking the plunge and starting a portfolio.

By: Ken Auletta 2001 ed. On a quiet July morning, one of the world's most powerful and prestigious investment banking partnerships was launched on the path to ruin-not by the economy, not by an act of God, but by a self-inflicted wound. The firm was Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, a revered Wall Street institution with roots that stretched back to the Civil War. And what happened that July morning in 1983 would not only spell the end of a banking firm but would come to symbolize the recklessly high-flying Wall Street of the 1980s.

By: Roy Smith 200 ed. An interesting and illuminating perspective on global banking as it was carried out on the eve of the 1990s from its three continental centers: New York, London, and Tokyo, The Global Bankers deals with each of these regions separately, tracing the international development of the markets and highlighting the principal distinctions and the most important and topical features of each. It examines innovative developments in European finance beginning with the rise of the Eurobond market and including the free-market reconstruction of the London stock exchange and the surprising resurgence of pragmatic capitalism in socialistic Europe. Focus is also given to the internationalization of finance in the United States and the financial ways of the wily Japanese.

By: Rober T. Hagstrom Jr. 2005 ed. Starting with an investment of only $100, investor Warren Buffett has managed to amass billions by buying pieces of companies and holding on to them. Hagstrom, who has followed Buffett's career since the early '80s, focuses here on his investment strategies and shows how they have evolved over the years. Foreword by Peter Lynch.

By: John Train 1994 ed. John Train's The Money Masters is one of the most widely read investment books in history. In The New Money Masters, Train describes the technique of today's investment wizards, from Peter Lynch to George Soros. Revealed are the advantages of over-the-counter issues, the best ways to invest in foreign stocks and in newly industrialization countries, how the masters determine when the market is too high or too low, and how to lay out the key facts about a company in order to understand it most easily.

By: Peter Bernstein 2005 ed. Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Starting with the French mathematician Louis Bachelier - who wrote about the unpredictability of stock prices in the early 1900s - Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years

By: Ron Chernow 2001 ed. The most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty, The House of Morgan traces the astonishing path of the J.P. Morgan empire with the sweep of an epic novel. "Brilliantly researched and written" (The Wall Street Journal), the hardcover was recently named winner of the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction. 32 pages of photographs.

By: Ron Chernow 1997 ed. "For anyone interested in the world behind the business-page headlines, this is the book to read." -- Publishers Weekly With the same breadth of vision and narrative elan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end.

By: Mary Buffett and David Clark 1999 ed. The only book written by both a financial expert and a Buffett family member, this bestseller spells out proven strategies, techniques and offers profitable advice.

By David Darst 2003 ed. The Art of Asset Allocation is today's most comprehensive and hands-on guidebook for using asset allocation principles to dramatically improve the performance of virtually any portfolio and written by one of today's top asset allocation practitioners and experts.

By: Reed-Lajoux and Elson 2000 ed. Drawing on the experience of 100 experts, Lajoux shows non-lawyers how to navigate due diligence and how to uncover data that can break a deal. Featuring global perspectives and special insights for small businesses, manufacturers, and service companies, this primer is essential for everyone involved in M&As.

By: Reed-Lajoux and Elson 1998 ed. It explains the important details of the acquisition process - how you can structure a deal that is fair, equitable, and profitable for your side of the table. Synopses of nearly three dozen landmark cases give real-life insights into disputes and legal rulings from previous high-profile mergers and illustrate how courts have ruled upon these often contentious questions.

By: Benjamin Graham 2003 ed. The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.

By: Edwin Lefevre 2006 ed. First published in 1923, this is the fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest speculators ever. Generations of investors have found that it has more to teach them about themselves and other investors than years of experience in the market.

By: John Murphy 1996 ed. The host of the popular CNBC program Tech Talk with John Murphy introduces readers to the art and science of visual analysis, explaining in terms that non-professionals can understand how to track the ups and downs of stock prices by visually comparing charts, instead of relying on abstruse mathematical formulas and rarefied technical concepts. 50 charts & tables.

"The Essays of Warren Buffett" By: Warren Buffett 2001 ed. An updated edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett was published this weekend, to include selections from Mr. Buffett's letters written since publication of the original edition in 1996. These include new essays on the technology stock bubble that burst, the circle of competence, unconventional commitments, share repurchases, stock-as-currency in acquisitions, the purchase-pooling debate, stock option accounting, and accounting shenanigans concerning "restructurings."

By: Peter Bernstein 1998 ed. "With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it."-John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University

By: Bob Woodward 2001 ed. Maestro traces a fascinating intellectual journey as Greenspan, an old-school anti-inflation hawk of the traditional economy, is among the first to realize the potential in the modern, high-productivity new economy -- the foundation of the current American boom. Woodward's account of the Greenspan years is a remarkable portrait of a man who has become the symbol of American economic preeminence.

By Martin Mayer 2001 ed. The inside story of how the world's most powerful financial institution drives the markets, with a timely analysis by Martin Mayer. He reveals how the market has forced the Federal Reserve to reinvent itself from top to bottom.

By: Adam Smith 1976 ed. The excesses he identified in the 1960s seemed to have returned in only slightly updated form in the late 1990s. If you did not see the last big market top, you owe it to yourself to read this book. If you are an entrepreneur, you will love the part about being a public company. He says that this is like being your own country, because you can print your own money whenever you need more (by selling your stock to the public). And you know, he's right. All the Internet entrepreneurs seem to understand that point. CAVEAT EMPTOR. If you like this book as much as I did, perhaps it will help you identify a stimulating and rewarding career as it did for me.

By: Charles Kendleberger 2005 ed. Selected as one of the ten best investment books of all time by the "Financial Times," this classic puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective.

By: Peter Lynch 2000 ed. 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.

By: Peter Lynch 1994 ed. In this #1 national bestseller--now fully revised and updated--Peter Lynch shows investors how to reap the rewards of managing their own investments. Lynch offers clear suggestions for establishing and maintaining a balanced portfolioof long-term and short-term stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

By: William Greider 1989 ed. This ground-breaking bestseller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve actually operates--and how it manipulated and transformed both America's economy and the world's during eight crucial years.

By: Charles R. Geisst & Richard A. Grasso 1999 ed. Excitement. Chaos. Embezzlement. Imprisonment. Injury and Deaths. Monumental Transactions. Legendary Fortunes. Catastrophic Losses. Notorious Characters. No other "Street" in the world is as intense, intriguing, and influential as Wall Street. From robber barons to money trusts; the Depression to the great 1950s bull market; increased government regulation and war to the ongoing 1900s boom; from insider trading and fraud to antitrust suits; from J.P. Morgan, Michael Milken, Ivan Boetsky to Bill Gates, Wall Street is indeed the site of sensational, history-making events and unforgettable figures. Now readers can get a front-row seat on Wall Street's trading floors and witness the drama unfold. Charles Giesst, author of New York Times Bestseller, Wall Street: a History, now gives readers in 100 Years of Wall Street, decade-by-decade, pictorial eyewitness accounts of the Street's colorful past, people, and events occurring during the twentieth century. Beginning with the very first stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange and ending with the bull market of 1999, 100 Years of Wall Street covers the trading floor's milestones.

By: Barton Biggs 2006 ed. Through an interwoven series of entertaining and informative chapters, HedgeHogging reveals Biggs' experiences-with friends and acquaintances-over his investment years. Some of the material encompasses the highlights from his thirty-year career at Morgan Stanley, while many others parts are more recent and relate to the creation and investment endeavors of Biggs' hedge fund. Filled with in-depth insights and valuable lessons, the stories and events described throughout the book offer a rare glimpse of the investment business and the people who are a part of it.

By: Roger Lowenstein 1996 ed. Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the 20th century--an astounding net worth of ten billion dollars, and counting. Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive, inside account of the life and career of this American original.

By: Peter Siris 1998 ed. Providing investors with a new framework for understanding the power relationships in the stock market, this book explains how to utilize the powerful knowledge gleaned as a consumer, as a professional in the workplace, as a member of a community, and as a surfer on the Internet.

By: John Steele Gordon 2000 ed. In The Great Game, acclaimed business historian John Steele Gordon chronicles the rise of Wall Street from its humble beginnings as an American trading post to its domination of the world economy, bringing to life the remarkable cast of bankers and brokers, visionaries and crooks who made it happen. From Alexander Hamilton to Michael Milken, the history of Wall Street is a history of risk, courage, avarice, patriotism, power, genius, and, occasionally, remarkable stupidity. In Gordon, Wall Street has finally found a biographer worthy of its extraordinary story.

By: Gerald Loeb 1996 ed. Wall Street wizard Loeb presents a collection of witty, straightforward investment insights that are entertaining and informative. Contains 78 succinct chapters covering such investment fundamentals as market timing, portfolio selection, hedging losses, switching stocks and everything else investors need to know to succeed in today's markets.

By: Paul Blustein 2001 ed. A staff writer at "The Washington Post" presents the breathtaking, behind-the-scenes story of the nearly disastrous global financial crisis of the late 1990s and how the International Monetary Fund tried--and failed--to stem it.

By: George Soros 2003 ed. George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management, which serves as the principal investment advisor to the multibillion dollar Quantum Group of Funds. Soros's flagship Quantum Fund is recognized as the most successful investment fund ever, returning an average 31 percent annually for more than thirty years. Soros has been an important philanthropist since 1979. His charitable foundations are active in more than fifty countries and spend nearly half a billion dollars each year to support projects in education, public health, civil society development, human rights, and many other areas.

By: William Gross 1998 ed. Learn where the markets are headed--and how to ride them to success.
Global changes point toward a dramatically different next decade in the realm of finance. As the bull markets of the last twenty years fade away, new investment tools and strategies are necessary. In this book, William Gross, one of today's most respected money managers who has built his fame on tracking economic trends, prepares readers for a completely new approach to investing. He emphasizes bonds, the right kinds of stocks, and a globalized investment portfolio for this new era in investment. In an accessible style, Gross intermingles discussions of investment with humor, wit, and personal anecdotes.
William H. Gross (Laguna Beach, California) is the founder, managing director, and CEO of Pacific Investment Management Company, which manages over $90 billion in assets for both institutional investors and individuals.

By: Charles Mackay 1995 ed. A complete repackaging of the classic work about grand-scale madness, major schemes and bamboozlement--and the universal human susceptibility to all three--this informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions, from witch burnings to the Great Crusades to the prophecies of Nostradamus.

By: Philip A. Fisher 2003 ed. Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel. This book is invaluable reading and has been since it was first published in 1958. The updated paperback retains the investment wisdom of the original edition and includes the perspectives of the author's son Ken Fisher, an investment guru in his own right in an expanded preface and introduction

Harvard Business Review Mergers & Acquisitions By: Dennis C. Carey, Alfred Rappaport, Robert G. Eccles, Robert J. Aiello, Michael D. Watkins Almost every day the papers report another merger, buyout, or joint venture. It's difficult enough to keep track of who owns which company, but it's even more difficult to know if your own company should join in the game. From valuation to integration, this collection helps managers think through what such a strategic move would mean for their organizations.

By: Alexandra Reed-Lajoux 1997 ed. Mergers and acquisitions are the subject here, and the reader is assumed to be a corporate predator who has captured a prize and can trust no one else to clean and dress the kill. Offers advice on such questions as which divisions, if any will be sold off, how to value and combine intangible assets, and how the combined companies can build shareholder value.

By: K. Thomas Liaw 2005 ed. Beginning with an overview, covering everything from underwriting to M&As to global presence, Liaw provides a thorough and rigorous analysis of the current market practices in all relevant business segments. He presents an investment banker's perspective on the current environment, with a detailed description of the strategic decision-making process that is crucial to successfully managing the investment bank.