Rational Capital Investment Fund

Lynch's stock-by-stock walkthrough of how he picked them.

Buy a few outstanding growth companies, research them by scuttlebutt, and hold.

The amateur's edge argument from the Magellan record.

How to read financial statements sceptically and value bonds and stocks.

Treat stocks as parts of businesses and buy only with a margin of safety.

The magic formula: buy cheap stocks with high returns on capital, mechanically.

Where small-cap and special-situation ideas actually come from.

Second-level thinking, risk and market cycles, drawn from Oaktree's client memos.

The case for focus investing: ten to fifteen stocks held for a long time.

Where to find mispriced stocks: spinoffs, mergers, bankruptcies and restructurings.

The recurring features of speculative booms, and why short memories bring them back.

The few investors who saw subprime mortgage bonds would fail, and bet against them.

Eight centuries of defaults and banking crises show the same patterns recurring.

How a hedge fund's bond bets on borrowed money lost $4.6 billion in four months.

Why people mistake luck for skill, above all in markets.

The Good Judgment Project; the practices that measurably improve forecasts.

Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.

How to test whether reported earnings reflect reality, from tax books to receivables.

Seventy questions to ask before buying any business.

Eight CEOs who beat the market by allocating capital, not by running operations.

Buffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.

Buffett's life to 2008, written with full access to his files and his friends.

Essays on investing philosophy, psychology, competition and science.

Eight mistakes experienced decision-makers repeat, and a correction for each.

McKinsey's guide to discounted cash flow valuation and managing for value.

The 1907 panic day by day, from a failed copper corner to J.P. Morgan's rescue.

FBI hostage-negotiation tactics: labelling, mirroring and calibrated questions.

Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.