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'Investment Valuation'Author: Aswath Damodaran
The reference text for valuation practice, and the one worth returning to when a model stops making sense.
Books WeSuggest to Read
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'The Little Book of Common Sense Investing'
- Book Type:
- General Reading
- Author:
- John C. Bogle
- Industry:
- Asset Management
- Rating:
- 4.6/10
SUMMARY
It helps to understand the essential principles for investing into Indexes and reasons why market returns beat most managers.
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'The Intelligent Investor'
- Book Type:
- General Reading
- Author:
- Benjamin Graham
- Industry:
- Investment Banking
- Rating:
- 4.7/10
SUMMARY
The case for treating a share as a claim on a business rather than a line on a screen, and for leaving a margin of safety.
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'Investment Valuation'
- Book Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Aswath Damodaran
- Industry:
- Valuation
- Rating:
- 4.8/10
SUMMARY
The reference text for valuation practice, and the one worth returning to when a model stops making sense.
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'Barbarians at the Gate'
- Book Type:
- General Reading
- Author:
- Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
- Industry:
- Private Equity
- Rating:
- 4.5/10
SUMMARY
An account of the RJR Nabisco buyout that still explains how leverage, ego, and process interact under pressure.
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'Principles of Corporate Finance'
- Book Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Brealey, Myers & Allen
- Industry:
- Corporate Finance
- Rating:
- 4.4/10
SUMMARY
A first-principles treatment of capital budgeting and financing decisions that rewards being read slowly.
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'When Genius Failed'
- Book Type:
- General Reading
- Author:
- Roger Lowenstein
- Industry:
- Wealth Management
- Rating:
- 4.5/10
SUMMARY
How a fund staffed with Nobel laureates ran out of room, and what that says about leverage and correlation.
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