Review: The interpretation of financial statements, by Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham has served as an inspiration to such legendary investors as Warren Buffett and Walter Schloss. His book on investment The Intelligent Investor is considered a classic. In 1934, Graham...
View ArticleReview of Investing: the last liberal art, by Robert Hagstrom
Charlie Munger is like a kind of Mycroft Holmes to Warren Buffett’s Sherlock – he is the deep thinker of the two, and a man who believes strongly that the general acquisition of wisdom can lead to a...
View ArticleTexas Instruments BA-35 Solar Calculator
Doing the calculations This site, when making calculations for itself, uses and prefers the Texas Instruments BA-35 Solar Calculator. This handy little calculator, which runs on solar power and does...
View ArticleReview: The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
If you don’t have this book in your library, then you should not even be contemplating an investment in shares directly, or even indirectly, though a mutual fund. It is surely not a co-incidence, as...
View ArticleReview: The New Buffettology, by Mary Buffett and David Clark
This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about Warren Buffett and how he does what he does. The authors look at the companies Buffett has invested in over the years and what he...
View ArticleReview: The Snowball – Warren Buffett and the business of life
There have been many books written about Buffett and I have read most of them. They generally gloss over his life but try to extract his investment principles by deduction from some of the trades that...
View ArticleReview: Value investing, by Janet Lowe
This book is a little gem for anybody who has difficulties in understanding the investment philosophy of Benjamin Graham. Lowe, who has written extensively on Graham, explains many of the investment...
View ArticleWhat Warren Buffett likes to read
From time to time, Warren Buffett makes book recommendations in his annual letters to shareholders. These are some of them. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (2010 letter...
View ArticleReview: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by...
As technology continues to impact on the way companies do business, it has become increasingly important for investors to understand technological change and factor it into their investment choices....
View ArticleReview: Why I left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story, by Greg Smith
After reading this book, I have became more convinced than ever that intelligent investors should make their own investment choices, using the sound principles recommended by Ben Graham and Warren...
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