Reference List for Financial Learning
BOOKS – FINANCIAL, INNOVATION
A Demon of Our Own Design: Market, Hedge Funds and the Perils of Financial Innovation, by Richard Bookstaber
A Primer on Securitization, by Leon T. Kendall and Michael J. Fishman (Editors)
Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation, by Scott P. Mason, Robert C. Merton, Andre F. Perold and Peter Tufano
Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ingorance at the Federal Reserve, by William Fleckenstein and Fred Sheehan
Liar’s Poker, by Michael Lewis
Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives, by John Marthinsen
Securitization –The Financial Instrument of the Future, by Vinod Kothari
The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About
Exchange-Traded Funds, by Richard Ferri
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What it Means, by George Soros
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash, by Charles R. Morris
When Genius Failed, by Roger Lowenstein
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BOOKS – FINANCIAL, TRADITIONAL
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton Malkiel
Beating the Street, by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein
Learn to Earn, by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
One Up On Wall Street, by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
The Essays of Warren Buffett, by Warren Buffet
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
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WEBSITES – INVESTMENT TERMS
investopedia.com
wikipedia.org
--WEBSITES – FUNDAMENTAL & TECHNICAL ANALYSIS--
businessweek.com
cnbc.com
finance.yahoo.com
fool.com
marketwatch.com
morningstar.com (Mutual Funds)
smartmoney.com
stockcharts.com
bigcharts.com (Rolling P/E Ratios)
clearstation.com
knighttrader.blogspot.com
----------WEBSITES – IPO’s--------------
ipoboutique.com
-----------------WEBSITES – BONDS-------------
bondsonline.com
bondtalk.com
-----WEBSITES – WALLACE LIBRARY DATABASE-------
Mergent Online (Company Research)
S&P Netadvantage (Company Research)
Hoovers (Company Research)
LexisNexis (Business News)
Investext (Analyst Reports)
Factiva (Access to Wall Street Journal)
---------WEBSITES – PERSONAL FINANCE---------
bankrate.com
finance.move.com
(MMA Rates, CD Rates, Car Loan Rates, Credit Card Debt, Mortgage Rates, Etc.)
---WEBSITES –FINANCE BLOGS / MESSAGE BOARDS---
seekingalpha.com
stockhideout.com