Resource Centre

More books on... New Reviews Mutual Funds Stocks & Bonds Personal Finance Heroes & Scoundrels Resources Getting Started The Wise Investor Online Investing Glossary Book Centre Globefund.com Alert

New Reviews Books selected and reviewed by Andrew Allentuck. [ Stocks ] [ Mutual Funds ] [ Personal Finance ] [ Heroes & Scoundrels ] New Era Value Investing: A Disciplined Approach to Buying Value & Growth Stocks by Nancy Tengler New Era Value Investing is a sophisticated attempt to bring Ben Graham’s Security Analysis from the early 20th century into the 21st. The valuation process that worked in the 1930s won’t work today and price measures have changed, probably forever. The new metrics that Ms. Tengler suggests may not identify the sickest puppies in the market that can surprise everyone and bounce back to life. It can, however, help select sleeping dogs and avoid the mutts. Read the full review The Right Stock at the Right Time: Prospering in the Coming Good Years by Larry Williams Larry Williams, newsletter editor and occasional scribe for publications like Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal, has put together his musings on the market. His approach is situational, his reasoning a kind of back of the envelope sureness that, with patience and some sense of history, things will work out. Read the full review The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook by ed. Galen Burghardt In this definitive work on pricing and trading Eurodollar futures, University of Chicago scholar Galen Burghardt, who is also active in the Euromarket, has woven the work of two dozen experienced options and futures experts. The book covers the range of investable assets from Eurodollar time deposits to futures, hedges, swaps and swap hedges. The work is not too heavy on math, at least not beyond what a handheld financial calculator can handle, and the core issue of the book, pricing volatility, is dealt with in a workable form. For investors who want to trade Eurodollar media, this is an essential work. Read the full review [ More reviews ] [ Back to Top ] Gordon Pape's 2003 Buyer's Guide to Mutual Funds by Gordon Pape and Eric Kirzner The oldest and perhaps the most respected of Canadian fund manuals, Gordon Pape's Guide to Mutual Funds is thorough and wise. For the investor who wants management and the hand holding that managers and advisors provide, there is still no better guide thanGordon Pape's 2003 Buyer's Guide to Mutual Funds. Read the full review All About Index Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started by Richard A. Ferri All About Index Funds is American content, but the Canadian reader can disregard discussions of 401-k plans and 12-b fees and stick to the argument for indexing. There is hardly a better compact discussion of the origins and growth of the industry. As a provocative read and as a reference work, Mr. Ferri has produced a work that is simply superb. Read the full review [ More reviews ] [ Back to Top ] The Art of Asset Allocation: Asset Allocation Principles and Investment Strategies for Any Market by David M. Darst The advantage of asset allocation is that it provides a framework for rebalancing assets as they rise or fall in value. I think that is what makes study of this field of portfolio managment worthwhile. To that end, in the context of private client services, this is quite a good book. Read the full review Make Yourself a Millionaire: How to Sleep Well and Stay Sane on the Road to Wealth by Charles C. Zhang and Lynn L. Chen-Zhang The dustjacket of this US-centric guide to financial planning says that author Charles C. Zhang "was the #1 rated financial advisor in 2002 out of American Express Financial Advisors' more than 9,000 financial advisors nationwide." Pity Amex clients, for if Mr. Zhang is the best they can do, they are in trouble. Read the full review [ More reviews ] [ Back to Top ] Wheel, Deal, and Steal by D. Quinn Mills Wheel, Deal, and Steal is a great read. It’s a fine summary of the fin de siècle mood of investors to go for broke and of the greed investment community that made sure many did just that. Read the full review Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America by Arianna Huffington Pigs at the Trough is summer reading, a batch of memorable one liners, nothing too deep, nothing challenging, but lovely to read and, in parts, luscious enough to make you want to move your lips pronouncing Ms. Huffington’s puns. This book is more flake than fact, but porcine insults aside, it is great if brief entertainment. Read the full review [ More reviews ] [ Back to Top ]