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The Bulls and the Books: Recommendations for Financial Page Turners

Besides the staple breakfast of Wall Street Journal in the morning, here is a compilation of my favorite journals, magazines, and books to become a well informed portfolio manager or trader independent of broker/dealer & sell side research.

Journal Articles:

Wall Street Journal

Financial Times

Grants Interest Rate Observer: (A bit long and expensive for cost benefit analysis but a staple among older FA’s)

Mergers & Acquisitions

Pensions and Investments

The Journal of Finance

Magazines:

Foreign Affairs Magazine

The Economist

Barron’s

Books:

When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

A Colossal Failure in Common Sense by Lawrence McDonald

One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Beating the Street by Peter Lynch

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Red Notice by Bill Browder

Texts:

Advances in Finance and Machine Learning by Marcos Lopez De Prado

The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities by Frank J. Fabozzi

Metals and Energy Finance by Buchanan

Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis by Blaise Ganguin and John Bilardello