Benjamin Graham is well known as the mentor to Warren Buffett and for writing The Intelligent Investor and before that, Security Analysis. Even earlier than those two books, Benjamin Graham wrote for The Magazine of Wall Street between 1917 and 1927. Rodney G. Klein and David M. Darst have compiled these writings in their book, [...]
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Book Review – The Secret Language of Money
The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life, written by David Krueger and John David Mann, is as much a psychology book as it is about personal finance. I found this made for an interesting read, since behavioral finance plays a major role in how we make [...]
Canadian Finance Blog Book Giveaway
With the launch of the new Canadian Finance Blog, I thought we should have a giveaway of some of the best investing books for any do-it-yourself investor. Thanks to McGraw-Hill, there will be three lucky winners getting one book each.
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Book Review – Winning The Loser’s Game
Winning The Loser’s Game is written by Charles D. Ellis. Ellis is on the Board of Directors at Vanguard, which more than hints at his investment strategy in his book. Winning The Losers Game is another book that stresses the benefits of index investing over a long time horizon.
The title is based off a theory [...]
Book Review – Stocks For The Long Run
Stocks For The Long Run, written by Jeremy J. Siegel, is a great book that as the name suggests, promotes the superior return of stocks over an extended period of time. The very first chart in the book shows the nominal returns of stocks, bonds, bills and gold from 1802 to 2006. While obviously we [...]
Book Review – The Four Pillars of Investing
I’ve been looking forward to writing a review of The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons For Building a Winning Portfolio as I found it to be very influential in my own investment strategy. While some readers may be familiar with this book, I wanted to share what this book is about for those who haven’t [...]
Book Review – Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel
When Phil Villarreal, writer for the Arizona Daily Star, The Consumerist and OK! Magazine, offered to send me a copy of his new book I thought “sure, I like money saving tips” and was already very interested. Then Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel: 100 Dirty Little Money-Grubbing Secrets arrived and I realized these aren’t the [...]
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