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31 July 2013

Top Five Articles from July: Investment vs. Speculation and Summer Reading

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1. What is the Difference Between Investing and Speculation — And Why Does It Matter? (Forum)

For centuries many of the world’s leading investment thinkers have struggled to articulate the difference between “investing” and “speculating.” We’ve assembled a panel of leading investment practitioners to discuss the issue in our inaugural online forum.

2. Financial History: What Are the Lessons for Investment Practitioners?

While experts agree that there are many lessons to be learned from the history of finance, sussing those lessons out and applying them to current events is no simple matter.

3. Book Review: What’s Behind the Numbers?

Analysts, equity portfolio managers, students, and even traders will savor this book. Word about it is already getting around graduate business schools and CFA Program study groups. What stands out more than any other factor is how current it is. And yet it is classically fundamental in its approach — and immediately useful.

4. Book Review: What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms

This book should be required reading for anyone who manages or works for a professional organization. Even solo practitioners will be inspired by the author’s account of the means by which certain firms achieved excellence and became the acknowledged leaders in their fields.

5. Book Review: Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything

This enjoyable collection of articles about and by Warren Buffett gives readers the opportunity to learn about his business achievements. Even seasoned readers who have tracked Buffett’s career for decades are likely to find enough new material to pique their interest.

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About the Author(s)
Jennifer Curry

Jennifer Curry formerly served as managing editor of the Enterprising Investor. Previously, she was the social media manager at the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). Prior to her work at NYSSA, Curry worked as the senior project editor for a nonfiction imprint at Barnes & Noble Publishing and as an assistant editor at the H.W. Wilson Company. She is the editor of several volumes in the Reference Shelf series, and her writing has appeared in Smithsonian, IndustryWeek, Barnes & Noble Review, and other publications. Curry holds a BS in journalism and a BA in anthropology from the University of Kansas, and an MA in anthropology from Hunter College, City University of New York.

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