Common Sense on Mutual Funds: 10th Anniversary Edition
Common Sense on Mutual Funds - John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle, founder and retired CEO of the The Vanguard Group, knows investing. But when it comes to book publicity and promotion, he turned to the experts at Newman Communications. We are thrilled to be able to work with Mr. Bogle on his latest book publicity project promoting Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition.
How many Wall Street legends go back to their bestselling book 10 years later and honestly annotate where they were right, where they were wrong, where we are now, and where we are going? This scorecard is truly unique.
It has been a decade since Bogle’s COMMON SENSE ON MUTUAL FUNDS was first published. His bestseller examined the fundamentals of mutual fund investing in turbulent market environments and offered valuable guidance for building investment portfolios.
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The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
The Snowball - Warren Buffet
In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Author, Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett’s appetites—for profit, women (particularly nurturing maternal types), food (Buffett maintained his and his family’s weight by “dangling money”)—it is refreshing that Schroeder keeps her tone free of judgment or awe; Buffett’s plain-speaking suffuses the book and renders his public and private successes and failures wonderfully human and universal. Schroeder’s sections detailing the genesis of Buffett’s investment strategy, his early mentoring by Benjamin Graham (who imparted the memorable “cigar butt” scheme: purchasing discarded stocks and taking a final puff). Inspiring managerial advice abounds and competes with gossipy tidbits (the married Buffett’s very public relationship with Washington Post editor Katherine Graham) in this rich, surprisingly affecting biography
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Too Big To Fail – Andrew Sorkin
Too Big to Fail
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.
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