Best Investment Books

Benjamin Graham

About the bookbenjamin graham inspired people everywhere in the world and is known to be the most famous investment advisor of the 20th century. His book the intelligent investor is recognized and believed to be the stock market bible since it was published in 1949 because of graham's philosophy called value investing which explains to investors how to develop long term strategies and prevent errors.famous investor, warren buffett, has described this book as the best book on investing ever written. The intelligent investor teaches us how to reach our goals financially and how to avoid the calculated risks involved. This book has become famous as being imperative for everyone in the business of investing.our market has come a long way and the advancements are a proof of graham's take on finance, his plans and ideas. Jason zweig, a financial journalist infuses his outlook about how the market functions in today's world with graham's examples and the current financial order and plans. This is what you can expect in the current revised edition of the book, while still safeguarding graham's unique text. All this is done to make applying graham's principles easier in day to day life. This book is available in paperback.key features the many examples are used to give us more clarity on the finance world. The idea of retaining the original plan of graham and infusing it with the current day to day financial situations makes this book a big success.

Benjamin Graham

"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years." --From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, "the father of value investing," have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes. This new sixth edition, based on the classic 1940 version, is enhanced with 200 additional pages of commentary from some of today's leading Wall Street money managers. These masters of value investing explain why the principles and techniques of Graham and Dodd are still highly relevant even in today's vastly different markets. The contributor list includes: *Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of Margin of Safety *James Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, general partner of Nippon Partners *Jeffrey M.Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of BusinessWeek *Roger Lowenstein, author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When America Aged and Outside Director, Sequoia Fund *Howard S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P. *J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group . *Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management. *Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital Management *Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School *David Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams Capital Featuring a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork "at least four times"), this new edition of Security Analysis will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing-more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets.

Lawrence S. Cunningham

A collection of the great investor's letters to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. It provides readers with the chance gain an invaluable informal education from the master of investment. With the use of plain words, the letters distill all the basic principles of Buffett's sound business practices. They are broad in scope and offer vital wisdom on the selection of management, the choice of investments, the valuation of businesses, and using financial information profitably.

Peter Lynch

Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. This book claims this that the basics of investing - the fundamentals of the economic system and what they have to do with the stock market - aren't taught in school. When individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic eduction in investing can have tragic consequences. For those who know what to look for, investment opportunites are everywhere. The average student is familiar with Nike, Reebok, McDonalds, the Gap, and the Body Shop; the majority of teenagers have drunk Pepsi or Coke, but only a very few own shares in either company or even understand how to buy them. The author demonstrates that the basic principles behind public companies haven't changed in more than 300 years.

Peter Lynch

Develop a Winning Investment Strategy-with Expert Advice from "The Nation's #1 Money Manager." Peter Lynch's "invest in what you know" strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies-and their stocks-perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street,Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There's no reason the individual investor can't match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

Philip A. Fisher

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 "I sought out Phil Fisher after reading his Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits...A thorough understanding of the business, obtained by using Phil's techniques...enables one to make intelligent investment commitments." Warren Buffet