Equities and common stock

The core asset class: books here split between how to value a share of a business and what the long-run record of owning shares actually shows.

414 books · 124 people behind it

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  1. One Up on Wall StreetPeter Lynch, John Rothchild, 1989
  2. A Random Walk Down Wall StreetBurton G. Malkiel, 1973
  3. The Intelligent InvestorBenjamin Graham, 1949
  4. Security AnalysisBenjamin Graham, David L. Dodd, 1934

The people behind it 124

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Investors 62

John C. Bogle9 books hereDavid F. Swensen4 books hereGeorge Soros3 books hereBenjamin Graham2 books here
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Peter Lynch2 books here
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Charles D. Ellis1 book here
Howard Marks1 book here
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Sidney Homer1 book here
BB
Barton Biggs1 book here
MJ
Martin J. Whitman1 book here
Robert D. Arnott1 book here
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Van K. Tharp1 book here
Charlie Mungernamed in their tagsClifford Asnessnamed in their tags
EO
Edward O. Thorpnamed in their tags
JD
Jack D. Schwagernamed in their tags
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Joel Greenblattnamed in their tags
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Mark Leonardnamed in their tags
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Michael Mauboussinnamed in their tags
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Peter L. Bernsteinnamed in their tags
PF
Philip Fishernamed in their tags
Warren Buffettnamed in their tags
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William J. O'Neilnamed in their tags
AI
Antti Ilmanennamed in their tags
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Bill Millernamed in their tags
Carl Icahnnamed in their tags
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Christopher Mayernamed in their tags
DE
David Einhornnamed in their tags
EC
Edward Chancellornamed in their tags
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Hamilton Helmernamed in their tags
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Jeremy Granthamnamed in their tags
Jesse Livermorenamed in their tags
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John Hussmannamed in their tags
John Neffnamed in their tags
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Ken Fishernamed in their tags
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Li Lunamed in their tags
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Martin Zweignamed in their tags
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Mohnish Pabrainamed in their tags
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Nick Sleepnamed in their tags
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Pat Dorseynamed in their tags
Prem Watsanamed in their tagsSeth Klarmannamed in their tags
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Stanley Druckenmillernamed in their tags
Terry Smithnamed in their tags
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William J. Bernsteinnamed in their tags
WN
William N. Thorndike Jr.named in their tags
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Bill Nygrennamed in their tags
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Christopher Brownenamed in their tags
CA
Chuck Akrenamed in their tags
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Daniel Loebnamed in their tags
EW
Ed Wachenheimnamed in their tags
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Francois Rochonnamed in their tags
Guy Spiernamed in their tags
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Larry Swedroenamed in their tags
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Meb Fabernamed in their tags
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Nick Trainnamed in their tags
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Nicolas Darvasnamed in their tags
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Rick Ferrinamed in their tags
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Thomas Gaynernamed in their tags
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Wesley R. Graynamed in their tags
Whitney Tilsonnamed in their tagsWilliam Ackmannamed in their tags

Founders 3

John C. Bogle9 books hereBrad Feld1 book here
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Mark Leonardnamed in their tags

Executives 4

John C. Bogle9 books here
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Mark Leonardnamed in their tags
Terry Smithnamed in their tags
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Thomas Gaynernamed in their tags

Academics 28

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Frank J. Fabozzi8 books here
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Alfred Rappaport3 books here
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Edward I. Altman3 books here
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Frank Partnoy3 books here
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Robert A. Haugen3 books here
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Adam Smith2 books here
Aswath Damodaran2 books hereNassim Nicholas Taleb2 books here
LA
Lawrence A. Cunningham2 books here
TK
Tim Koller2 books here
ED
Emanuel Derman2 books here
BG
Burton G. Malkiel1 book here
CP
Charles P. Kindleberger1 book here
DL
David L. Dodd1 book here
Robert J. Shiller1 book here
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Sidney Homer1 book here
JE
Joseph E. Stiglitz1 book here
NF
Niall Ferguson1 book here
Andrew W. Lonamed in their tags
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Bruce Greenwaldnamed in their tags
Campbell R. Harveynamed in their tagsDaniel Kahnemannamed in their tags
EO
Edward O. Thorpnamed in their tags
Eugene F. Famanamed in their tags
MM
Michael Mauboussinnamed in their tags
Richard H. Thalernamed in their tagsJeremy Siegelnamed in their tags
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William J. Bernsteinnamed in their tags

Strategists 3

DT
Don Tapscott1 book here
MM
Michael Mauboussinnamed in their tags
HH
Hamilton Helmernamed in their tags

Journalists 24

Michael Lewis5 books here
FP
Frank Partnoy3 books here
PA
Philip Augar3 books here
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Roger Lowenstein2 books here
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Jason Zweig2 books here
LA
Lawrence A. Cunningham2 books here
BM
Ben Mezrich2 books here
JR
John Rothchild2 books here
SP
Scott Patterson2 books here
CD
Charles D. Ellis1 book here
Andrew Ross Sorkin1 book here
BB
Barton Biggs1 book here
Bethany McLean1 book here
GT
Gillian Tett1 book here
MH
Morgan Housel1 book here
NF
Niall Ferguson1 book here
WD
William D. Cohan1 book here
DT
Don Tapscott1 book here
Edwin Lefevrenamed in their tags
JD
Jack D. Schwagernamed in their tags
PL
Peter L. Bernsteinnamed in their tags
EC
Edward Chancellornamed in their tags
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William N. Thorndike Jr.named in their tags
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William Greennamed in their tags

Books 414

Walter Bagehot · 1873 · The founding description of a money market and the lender of last resort.
Harry M. Markowitz · 1959 · The original mean-variance monograph.
Sidney Homer, Martin L. Leibowitz · 1972 · Written by Salomon's own research chiefs; the firm's lasting intellectual output.
Burton G. Malkiel · 1973 · The efficient-markets case against stock picking; still the standard rebuttal.
Sheldon Natenberg · 1988 · The trader's book on volatility and position greeks.
John C. Hull · 1989 · The universal graduate text on derivatives pricing.
Jeremy J. Siegel · 1994 · The two-century US equity return series and the case for holding stocks.
Charles P. Kindleberger · 1996 · The standard anatomy of currency and credit crises.
Nick Leeson, Edward Whitley · 1996 · Insider: the trader's own account, written from prison.
Larry Harris · 2002 · The standard text on market microstructure and how orders get filled.
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, Mike Staunton · 2002 · 101 years of returns across sixteen countries; the survivorship-free equity record.
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2010 · Traces AIG Financial Products' swap book back to its origins.
Diana B. Henriques · 2011 · The standard account; the author interviewed Madoff in prison.
Louis D. Brandeis · 1914 · The contemporary case against the Morgan money trust.
Marcia L. Stigum · 1978 · Stigum's institutional bible of bills, repo, CP and Fed funds.
Lawrence G. McMillan · 1980 · Encyclopedic reference on option strategies and their payoffs.
Frank J. Fabozzi · 1983 · The desk reference for every instrument in the market.
Frank J. Fabozzi · 1989 · The standard course text on bond pricing and portfolio strategy.
Peter Lynch, John Rothchild · 1993 · Lynch's stock-by-stock walkthrough of how he picked them.
Edward I. Altman, Edith Hotchkiss · 1993 · The academic standard; source of the Z-score.
Maureen O'Hara · 1995 · The academic foundation for inventory and information models of spreads.
John Gapper, Nicholas Denton · 1996 · By two FT journalists; strong on the management failures in London.
Stephen Fay · 1996 · The best-reported outside account.
Mark L. Sirower · 1997 · Why the premium usually exceeds the synergy.
John Brynjolfsson, Frank J. Fabozzi · 1999 · Early edited volume written as the US TIPS market opened.
Frank J. Fabozzi, Peter K. Nevitt · 2000 · The standard reference on lease structures, residuals and tax treatment.
Philip Augar · 2000 · How Big Bang handed the City's investment banks to foreign owners.
E. R. Yescombe · 2002 · The standard text on non-recourse financing of infrastructure projects.
Frank Partnoy · 2003 · Places WorldCom in a decade of engineered corporate deception.
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2003 · Open Library records the edition year as 2010; Cambridge published it in 2003.
Stephen G. Moyer · 2004 · The practitioner manual on valuing claims through a restructuring.
Frank J. Fabozzi · 2004 · Edited academic collection on the mechanics and evidence.
Paul Gompers, Josh Lerner · 2004 · The empirical work that established how venture returns and cycles behave.
Dan Reingold, Jennifer Reingold · 2006 · Insider account of the analyst-banking nexus that financed Ebbers's roll-up.
Richard M. Bookstaber · 2007 · Risk-manager's view; LTCM as one case among several.
Frank J. Fabozzi, Barbara S. Petitt, Jerald E. Pinto, Wendy L. Pirie · 2007 · The CFA Institute treatment of valuation and risk measures.
Mauro F. Guillen, Adrian Tschoegl · 2008 · How Santander went from domestic lender to global acquirer.
Sylvan G. Feldstein, Frank J. Fabozzi · 2008 · Fabozzi-style reference covering credit, structure and analytics.
Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson · 2009 · Insider account by a former Lehman convertible bond trader.
Gillian Tett · 2009 · The J.P. Morgan derivatives team that built the modern credit swap.
Raghuram G. Rajan · 2010
Harry Markopolos · 2010 · Memoir by the analyst who warned the SEC for nine years.
Harry Markopolos · 2010 · Insider-adjacent: the analyst who warned the SEC for nine years.
Frank J. Fabozzi · 2010 · Short Fabozzi treatment of straight preferred as a fixed-income instrument.
E. R. Yescombe · 2010 · How PPP concessions are structured, priced and argued over.
Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux · 2010 · The academic account of what havens do and how they compete.
Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, Bill Huyett · 2010 · Shows arithmetically that payout choice alone does not create value.
Roddy Boyd · 2011 · The fullest dedicated account of AIG Financial Products.
Carl E. Walter, Fraser J. T. Howie · 2011 · How the state banks, bond market and IPO machine are actually wired.
Nicholas Shaxson · 2011 · The tax-haven system and Switzerland's founding role in it.
Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig · 2013 · The case for far higher bank equity capital.
Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber · 2014 · Banking crises as outcomes of political bargains, not accidents.
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt · 2014 · Standard scholarly treatment of fee structures and returns in Blackstone's industry.
Lasse Heje Pedersen · 2015 · Construction under real frictions, funding and liquidity constraints.
Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey · 2015 · Wall Street Journal reporters on money, trust and the blockchain claim.
Mervyn King · 2016 · By the Bank governor who hesitated; the lender-of-last-resort argument itself.
Peter Conti-Brown · 2016 · What Fed independence legally is, versus what people assume.
Jake Bernstein · 2017 · How the offshore shell-company industry is actually built and sold.
Adele Ferguson · 2019 · The reporting that forced the Royal Commission into financial misconduct.
David Enrich · 2020 · Deutsche Bank's decades of risk-taking and control failure.
Liam Vaughan · 2020 · Navinder Sarao, spoofing and the 2010 crash.
Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner · 2023 · Case studies of extraction from acquired companies.
Andrew Tobias · 1982 · Consumer-side account of how insurers make money.
William H. Pike · 1983 · Plain-language primer on financial statements and how securities work
Godfrey Hodgson · 1984 · History of the market before the losses that nearly ended it.
Robert Sobel · 1986 · Commissioned institutional history, written before the fall.
Moira Johnston · 1986 · Contemporary reporting on the raiders, including his Phillips Petroleum fight.
John Taylor · 1987 · The 1984 greenmail raid that brought in Eisner and Wells.
Glenn Yago · 1990 · The revisionist defence of high yield as a financing innovation.
Annette Thau · 1991 · Retail-investor guide with the clearest chapters on buying munis.
Jon Friedman, John Meehan · 1992 · The Robinson years, Shearson, and the boardroom unravelling.
William B. Brueggeman, Jeffrey Fisher · 1993 · The standard university text on property underwriting.
Adam Raphael · 1994 · The Lloyd's of London Names catastrophe and unlimited liability.
Philippe Jorion · 1996 · The standard technical reference for the measure and its limits.
John P. Calamos · 1998 · Instruments, portfolio strategies and valuation from the best-known convertible manager.
Hersh Shefrin · 2000 · The academic bridge between behavioural finance and portfolio practice.
Stuart C. Gilson · 2001 · Harvard case studies in bankruptcy and workout situations.
Judy Wesalo Temel · 2001 · The Bond Market Association's primer; the standard entry point.
Su Han Chan, John Erickson, Ko Wang · 2002 · Academic survey of REIT structure and performance.
Moorad Choudhry · 2002 · Practitioner reference for the repo market that funds bill portfolios.
Nick P. Calamos · 2003 · The hedged strategy: delta, credit and gamma trading of converts.
Mark Deacon, Andrew Derry, Dariush Mirfendereski · 2004 · The standard reference on linker design, pricing and global markets.
David Harding, Sam Rovit · 2004 · Bain's evidence that frequent small deals beat occasional large ones.
Emanuel Derman · 2004 · Physicist to Goldman; the making of the volatility-surface era.
Robert F. Bruner · 2005 · Why mergers fail; the break risk an arbitrageur underwrites.
David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee · 2005 · Payments economics: interchange, closed loops and why Amex's model differs.
Philip Augar · 2005 · How the integrated investment bank extracts its economics from clients.
Robert J. Greer · 2005 · Linkers set beside commodities and real assets as competing inflation hedges.
Steven Drobny · 2006 · Global macro managers on how they build trades.
Satyajit Das · 2006 · Structured products and the client side of the derivatives trade.
Andrew Metrick, Ayako Yasuda · 2006 · The textbook treatment of valuation, terms and expected returns.
Stefano Gatti · 2007 · Academic-practitioner treatment with worked deal structures.
Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla · 2008 · Closest coverage: Countrywide is a central thread in the trade-press account of the industry.
Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo, Douglas J. Skinner · 2009 · The academic survey of dividends against repurchases.
Rishi K. Narang · 2009 · Plain-language description of what quant trading systems do.
Stephen J. Antczak, Douglas J. Lucas, Frank J. Fabozzi · 2009 · Loans, bonds and derivatives across the whole leveraged capital structure.
Josh Kosman · 2009 · Critical account of leverage and portfolio company outcomes across the big firms.
Pauline Barrieu, Luca Albertini · 2009 · The closest thing to a cat bond reference; several chapters on structure and triggers.
Erin Arvedlund · 2009 · By the reporter who publicly questioned the returns in 2001.
Barry Johnson · 2010 · Execution algorithms and direct market access, from the desk.
Barbara Weber, Mirjam Staub-Bisang, Hans Wilhelm Alfen · 2010 · The allocator's view: risk, return and portfolio role of infrastructure.
Alex Krutov · 2010 · Covers cat bond pricing and the investor case for the asset.
William F. Maxwell, Mark Shenkman · 2010 · Comprehensive guide to loans and high yield, the public cousins of private credit.
Richard Sauer · 2010 · A former SEC lawyer on naked shorting and the fights around it.
Perry Mehrling · 2010 · The central bank as dealer of last resort in a market-based system.
Simon Carswell · 2011 · The best forensic account: Anglo Irish Bank's loan book, the Quinn stake and the guarantee night.
Aaron Brown · 2011 · A working risk manager on what value-at-risk is and is not for.
Nicholas Dunbar · 2011 · How the swaps trade worked and why AIG sold it; Open Library unreachable.
Robert C. Pozen, Theresa Hamacher · 2011 · How funds are actually structured, distributed and regulated.
Jan De Spiegeleer, Wim Schoutens · 2011 · Modern pricing, structuring and risk management reference.
Robert Kricheff · 2012 · How leveraged loans and high-yield credits are underwritten and priced.
Scott Patterson · 2012 · How electronic trading and off-exchange venues took over.
Christopher Balding · 2012 · How these funds actually invest and what governs them; NBIM as benchmark.
Barbara T. Dreyfuss · 2013 · The only book-length account of Brian Hunter's gas book.
Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H. B. Monk · 2013 · The reference on SWF governance; Norges Bank Investment Management is the central case.
Steven G. Mandis · 2013 · Ex-banker turned sociologist on organizational drift.
Gudrun Johnsen · 2014 · By an investigator on the Special Investigation Commission; connected lending and cross-ownership.
Jan De Spiegeleer, Wim Schoutens, Cynthia Van Hulle · 2014 · Extends the same treatment to CoCos and other hybrids.
Kate Kelly · 2014 · Commodity desks at banks and funds after the 2008 boom.
Oonagh McDonald · 2015 · Focused on accounting and Repo 105.
Ben S. Bernanke · 2015 · The Fed chair's own account; read against Leonard and Greider.
Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott · 2016 · The high-water mark of enterprise blockchain enthusiasm.
Brooke Harrington · 2016 · The author trained as a wealth manager; the best account of the professionals who build the structures.
Turan G. Bali, Robert F. Engle, Scott Murray · 2016 · The cross-sectional testing methods behind every factor claim.
Bradley Birkenfeld · 2016 · Insider: the UBS banker whose disclosure ended cross-border Swiss secrecy.
Lisa Bench Nieuwveld, Victoria Shannon Sahani · 2017 · The most cited treatment of funded claims and their regulation.
Marcos López de Prado · 2018 · The standard warning about backtest overfitting, with the methods to avoid it.
Stephen L. Nesbitt · 2018 · The first book-length case for corporate direct lending as an asset class.
Philip Augar · 2018 · Barclays' thirty-year attempt to become a global investment bank.
Steven Friel · 2020 · Written by a funder; the closest thing to an industry overview.
David R. Giroux · 2021 · A large-fund manager's framework for ranking buybacks against alternatives.
Joseph J. Wang · 2021 · A former Fed trader on repo, bills and reserve plumbing.
Dakin Campbell · 2021 · On direct listings and the alternatives to the traditional IPO, SPACs included.
Ben Mezrich · 2021 · GameStop and Citadel Securities' order flow; dramatised.
Sujeet Indap, Max Frumes · 2021 · Modern creditor-on-creditor warfare told as narrative.
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy · 2021 · Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura and Cargill; the definitive book on the trading houses.
Laura Shin · 2022 · The Ethereum world and token economics FTX was built to trade.
Duncan Mavin · 2022 · The Greensill supply-chain funds that Credit Suisse distributed.
Sachin Khajuria · 2022 · Practitioner insider on how a modern buyout firm actually earns.
Brendan Ballou · 2023 · The prosecutorial case against the industry KKR created; read as counterweight.
Duncan Mavin · 2024 · Closest book coverage: Archegos as the loss that broke Credit Suisse.
Anthony J. Sebok · 2024 · Academic analysis of the legality and ethics of claim investing.
Peter L. Bernstein · 1965 · Open Library unreachable during build; every openlibrary.org query failed with connection errors
Peter F. Drucker · 1976 · Published 1976 as The Unseen Revolution; retitled 1996
Jack D. Schwager · 1984 · Second edition 2017 with Mark Etzkorn, titled A Complete Guide to the Futures Market.
Michael Lewis · 1991 · Collected 1980s finance essays
Seth C. Anderson, Jeffery A. Born · 1992 · Academic study of how discounts and premiums behave over time.
Robert J. Shiller · 1993
Stephen Aris · 1994 · Commissioned history, written long before the run.
Cornelius Luca · 1995 · Mechanics of spot, forward and options FX trading.
George A. Philips · 1997 · Earlier market survey, useful on the pre-2000 issuance regime.
Aswath Damodaran · 1997 · Open Library lists the title as "Corporate finance".
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 1997 · Technical manual on managing vanilla and exotic options
Paul Embrechts, Claudia Kluppelberg, Thomas Mikosch · 1997
John A. Mullaney · 1997 · Early practitioner introduction to the vehicle.
John Y. Campbell, A. Craig MacKinlay · 1997 · Princeton University Press. Open Library API unreachable this pass.
Claude B. Erb, Tadas E. Viskanta · 1998 · Research Foundation of the CFA Institute monograph.
A. Craig MacKinlay · 1999 · Princeton University Press. Open Library API unreachable this pass.
President's Working Group on Financial Markets · 1999 · Primary source: the official post-mortem.
Antoin E. Murphy · 2004 · Cross-holdings, the state and who actually controls French companies.
George Kleinman · 2004 · Practitioner primer on futures mechanics and hedging.
Brice Benaben · 2005 · Guide for investors and ALM managers to linked bonds and swaps.
LSTA · 2006 · LSTA reference on how leveraged loans are originated, syndicated and traded.
Peter L. Bernstein · 2007 · Open Library unreachable during build; every openlibrary.org query failed with connection errors
Tomas Hjelstrom · 2007 · Doctoral treatment of the discount anomaly; narrow but the real literature.
Bill Bamber, Andrew Spencer · 2008 · Insider account by a former Bear senior managing director.
J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul · 2008 · World Bank study of sovereign catastrophe risk transfer.
Andrew W. Lo · 2008 · Princeton University Press; revised edition 2010.
Brice Benaben · 2008 · Successor survey to Benaben's earlier volume: pricing, hedging, market structure.
Seth C. Anderson, Jeffery A. Born, Oliver Schnusenberg · 2009 · Academic review of the discount puzzle and related structures.
Geoff Chaplin, Jim Aspinwall, Mark Venn · 2009 · The one book specifically on buying life policies as an investment.
Shane Ross · 2009 · Board-level reporting on the Irish banks and their regulators.
Ricardo Bayon, Amanda Hawn, Katherine Hamilton · 2009 · The offset side: how voluntary credits are created and sold.
Steven Garber · 2010 · RAND occasional paper; the early survey of the US market.
Rajeev J. Sawant · 2010 · Treats infrastructure as an asset class rather than a project-finance problem.
George Soros · 2010 · Open Library lists the short title "The Soros Lectures".
Christoph Weber · 2011 · Academic treatment of the securitisation of non-life risk.
Siddhartha Jha · 2011 · Practical guide to trading rates, swaps and futures.
Jack D. Schwager · 2012 · Foreword by Joel Greenblatt, whom Open Library lists as a co-author.
Bruce Livesey · 2012 · Weak securities enforcement and what it costs minority shareholders.
Elizabeth Dunn, Michael Norton · 2013
Haim Bodek · 2013 · Collected writings by the whistleblower on order-type abuse.
Rocco Pirozzolo · 2014 · Short procedural handbook for funded claims in England.
Thomas Nowak, Andreas Richter, Thomas Hartung · 2014 · Risk-and-pricing analysis of the property-catastrophe end.
Nicholas Rowles-Davies, Jeremy Cousins · 2014 · English-law practitioner text on funding agreements.
Jason Zweig · 2015 · OL lists title in lower case
Andrew W. Lo · 2017 · Princeton University Press. Open Library API unreachable this pass.
David Gerard · 2017 · The sceptic's brief against crypto claims.
Nathan Tobik, Kenneth J. Yellen · 2017 · Illiquid community banks, the classic nano cap hunting ground.
John H. Cochrane, Tobias J. Moskowitz · 2017 · Collected papers, edited by Cochrane and Moskowitz.
Vitaly S. Guzhva, Sunder Raghavan, Damon J. D'Agostino · 2018 · The only book-length treatment of aircraft leasing; a textbook.
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 2019 · Subtitled Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.
Ashwin Ramachandran, Joey Santoro · 2021 · Wiley. Open Library API unreachable this pass.
Sandy Rattray, Otto Van Hemert · 2021 · Wiley. Open Library API unreachable this pass.
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven
Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey