Respected Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick has followed up How to Pay Less and Save More For Yourself: The Essential Consumer Guide to Canadian Banking and Investing (read my review), a guide to getting the best deals in banking and investing, with another book with an equally long title. But don’t let [...]
Charles Ellis is a Wall Street legend and Winning the Loser’s Game ranks as one of the classics of investing. I read an earlier edition many years back and when McGraw Hill offered to send a review copy of the fifth edition of the book, I jumped at the chance to re-read and review the [...]
William Bernstein says that he wrote The Investor’s Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon and Everything in Between even though he swore he would never write another book after The Four Pillars of Investing (read my review) because, in his view, the dramatic market developments of 2008-09 provided a perfect “teachable” moment to clearly define a [...]
I was surprised to learn that this book by Jeffrey Little and Lucien Rhodes was first published over 30 years ago, is now in its fifth edition and has sold over one million copies. I say surprised because I hadn’t even heard of the book in all these years of writing the blog and reading [...]
[Note: Today's post is an excerpt from a recent new book titled "You Can't Eat Your Furniture: A Simple Plan For a Well-Fed Retirement". The author, Robert Chown, is an investment advisor with one of Canada's leading investment firms. In the first chapter, part of which is excerpted below, Mr. Chown argues that only two [...]
The collapse of Lehman Brothers precipitated the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and an account of the events surrounding the demise of the investment bank would be of tremendous interest to students of financial history. After all, it was Lehman’s failure that turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. [...]
The New Yorker On the Money is a collection of cartoons that appeared in The New Yorker magazine on the subject of money, banking, investments, employment and the economy over a period of more than 80 years. The cartoons are organized by decades: from the roaring 1920s to the not-so-roaring 2000s and Malcolm Gladwell, the [...]
Enough Bull: How to Retire well without the stock market, mutual funds, or even an investment advisor is David Trahair’s follow-up to Smoke and Mirrors (see series of posts on Smoke and Mirrors Myths). As you probably surmised from the title, the author recommends readers to get off the stock market roller coaster altogether and [...]
The Bernard Madoff scandal is still unfolding — just the other day Madoff’s CFO (aka Chief Fraud Officer), Frank DiPascali plead guilty and, unlike his boss, offered to fully co-operate with authorities. He has already revealed key details of how the $50 billion fraud was perpetrated and speculation is mounting on who else Mr. DiPascali [...]
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – James Bryant Conant I didn’t have high expectations when I requested a review copy of this book by Curtis Faith because I hadn’t heard about the author or the reportedly famous group of traders called the Turtles. However, I was intrigued [...]
