Customer Review: This book is definitely one of the best books ever...I claim to be a mathematician somewhat having gained straight A's in pure and applied mathematics and advanced mathematics with (a boring) engineering degree at a number of UK univerisities, and after years of dabbling in options trading and... more info
Customer Review: I read this book back in December 07, the perfect timing for it would have been now, however.
A very simple conclusion from this book is that despite all the good intentions that the current bailout (TARP) might have, what we are doing is creating a new demon that will provoke a new crisis,... more info
Customer Review: Ever read one of those business books that touts the greatness of certain companies only to find that the same great companies are in the toilet a couple of years after the published date? The Built to Last companies were seemingly not built to last after all, and the companies that went from Good... more info
Customer Review: This was not an easy read, but it was worth it. I received my MBA in 1976. Much of this book was an explanation of the effects of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) on current investment practices. He assumes that the reader is well versed with the intricacies of CAPM. I had to go back to other... more info
Customer Review: Mandelbrot describes some problems with financial models that are designed to provide approximations of things that can't be perfectly modeled. He pretends that pointing out the dangers of relying too much on imperfect approximations shows some brilliant insight. But mostly he's just translating... more info
Customer Review: Financial history is fascinating precisely because it documents simularities with the present, even while the products or organizational mechanisms of the time are different; this book is great for this moment of credit contraction and fear in the 21st century, a hundred years after the documented... more info
Customer Review: This book is easy to read quickly, and not worth reading slowly. It is an unorganized collection of short, repetitive essays that draw analogies between choosing investments and findings from psychology and other areas of science. Nothing here is novel to anyone who reads magazines like Wired, or... more info
This is an easy and mostly entertaining read. The author uses many anecdotes to
persuade us that statistics can be a useful tool for decision making. Some of
the described applications use lots of data and multiple regression. Those are
easier to do now than they used to be,... more info
Customer Review: I read this when it came out and thought it was pretty good. The first half, about how people figured out how probability worked, was really entertaining. The end, about how the geniuses on Wall St. conquered risk, is so wrong it's hilarious. Bernstein is a victim of what Taleb calls the ludic... more info
Customer Review: What are the qualities of a successful hedge fund manager? To answer that question, Katherine Burton profiled industry leaders who have outperformed their peers over time. Her book provides readers with a sweeping introduction to the hedge fund industry's top performers. You will discover how these... more info
