Depending on a monthly salary alone is never enough to ensure financial stability. For long term security, it is important to start investing today. Whether you’re looking to start, or simply to grow your portfolio, then read on for our helpful list of books for the keen investor.
Book of Value: The Fine Art of Investing Wisely byAnurag Sharma
Financial markets are noisy and full of half-baked opinions, innuendo, and misinformation. With deep insights about investor psychology, Book of Value shows how to apply tools of business analysis to sort through the deceptions and self-deceptions in financial markets. Anurag Sharma joins philosophy with practical know-how to launch an integrated approach to building high-performance stock portfolios.
Let’s Talk Money: You’ve Worked Hard for It, Now Make It Work for You byMonika Halan
India’s most trusted name in personal finance, Monika Halan offers you a feet-on-the-ground system to build financial security. Not a get-rich-quick guide, this book provides you a smarter way to live your dream life, rather than stay worried about the ‘right’ investment or ‘perfect’ insurance. Unlike many personal finance books,Let’s Talk Moneyis written specifically for you, keeping the Indian context in mind.
The Joys Of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning byGautam Baid
A celebration of the value investing discipline, this book recounts Baid’s personal experiences, testifying to his belief that the best investment you can make is an investment in yourself. The Joys of Compounding offers curated reflections on life and learning for all investors, investment enthusiasts, and readers seeking a dose of practical wisdom.
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor byHoward Marks
Informed by a lifetime of experience and study, The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today’s volatile markets, Marks offers a volume that is part memoir, part creed, with a number of broad takeaways.
Investing With Keynes byJustyn Walsh
At the time of his death, Keynes’ net worth – almost entirely built through successful stock investments – amounted to the present-day equivalent of more than $30 million.
But can an analysis of this particular incarnation of Keynes – the shrewd stock picker and star fund manager – be of any benefit to the modern investor? The answer is a resounding yes. Accessible and informative, this book identifies what modern masters of the market have taken from Keynes and used in their own investing styles – and what you too can learn from one of the greatest economic thinkers of the twentieth century.
The Intelligent Investor byBenjamin Graham
Over the years, the investment market has been following the teachings and strategies of Graham for growth and development. In the book, Graham has explained various principles and strategies for investing safely and successfully without taking bigger risks. Modern-day investors still continue to use his proven and well-executed techniques for value investment.
The combination of the original plan Graham and the current financial situations are the reason behind this book’s preference for today’s investors. It is a detailed version with several wisdom quotes that are likely to change one’s investing career and lead to the path of financial safety and security.
Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too byLouAnn Lofton
Warren Buffett and the women of the world have one thing in common: They are better investors than the average man.
This book shows that women, with their patience and good decision-making, epitomize the Foolish temperament of the most successful investor in the world, Warren Buffett. While men may be brash, compulsive, and overly daring, women tend to be more studious, skeptical, and reasonable. The book will empower and educate women—and the men smart enough to embrace a “feminine” investing style—on how to strengthen their portfolios and find success in the market.
Angel Investing: Insider Secrets to Wealth Creation bySanjay Kulkarni
Welcome to the exciting world of angel investing and entrepreneurship. Using his rich experience as an investor and mentor to numerous start-ups, Sanjay Kulkarni provides you a ringside view of this world. In an accessible, jargon-free approach and illustrated with insider stories, the book arms you with all the tools and strategies needed to become a successful angel investor. Like a good guide, this book will help you in navigating the start-up ecosystem, avoiding common pitfalls, investing smartly, and identifying the next billion-dollar start-up. Look back twenty-five years, Flipkart, Ola, InMobi, weren’t even born. A whole new wave of start-ups is set to define the next twenty-five years. Would you like to be a part of this revolution?
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World byGary Vaynerchuk
Thanks to massive change and proliferation in social media platforms, the winning combination of jabs and right hooks is different now. Vaynerchuk shows that while communication is still key, context matters more than ever. It’s not just about developing high-quality content, but developing high-quality content perfectly adapted to specific social media platforms and mobile devices—content tailor-made for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Tumblr.
Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett byYefei Lu
Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century’s most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate their approach?
Yefei Lu, an experienced investor, starts with Buffett’s interest in the Sanborn Map Company in 1958 and tracks nineteen more of his major investments in companies like See’s Candies, the Washington Post, GEICO, Coca-Cola, US Air, Wells Fargo, and IBM, accessing partnership letters, company documents, annual reports, third-party references, and other original sources.
The Total Money Makeover byDave Ramsey
Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny little bank account into a bulked-up cash machine? Then get with the program, people. There’s one sure way to whip your finances into shape, and that’s withThe Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition.
The Interpretation of Financial Statements byBenjamin Graham,Spencer B Meredith
Written just three years after his landmarkSecurity Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statementsgets to the heart of the master’s ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company’s balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company.
Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders byJack D. Schwager
Who have been the market wizards during this tumultuous financial period? How did some traders manage to significantly outperform a stock market that during its heyday moved virtually straight up?
This book will feature interviews with a variety of traders who achieved phenomenal financial success during the glory days of the Internet boom. In contrast with the first two Market Wizard books, which included traders from a broad financial spectrum – stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures – this volume will focus on traders in the stock market.
The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders byJack D. Schwager
In The New Market Wizards, successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success. Asking questions that readers with an interest or involvement in the financial markets would love to pose to the financial superstars, Jack D. Schwager encourages these financial wizards to share their insights. Entertaining, informative, and invaluable, The New Market Wizards is destined to become another Schwager classic.
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively byReid Hoffman,Chris Yeh
Featuring case studies from numerous prominent tech businesses such as AirBnB and WeChat, this book offers a specific set of practices for catalyzing and managing dizzying growth in bourgeoning start-ups. Prioritizing speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, Blitz scaling illustrates how businesses can accelerate to the stage in a company’s life cycle where the most value is generated. Using the framework provided by Hoffman and Yeh, readers will learn how to design business models which simultaneously support growth at a furious pace and capture the market, as well as how to navigate the necessary shifts in strategy needed at each level of scale.
