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Book Reviews


Book Review: The Enduring Value of Roger Murray

Paul Johnson and Paul D. Sonkin shed great light on the investment management industry’s evolution over the past 90 years — and how one luminous individual contributed so much to it.

Book Review: Demographics Unravelled

Amlan Roy reviews how the study of population affects many of our core investment and policy decisions.

Book Review: Investing in the Era of Climate Change

Bruce Usher identifies both what the implications of climate change are for the investment community and how investment capital allows us “to save us from ourselves.”

Book Review: Purpose and Profit

The importance of ESG factors has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, making George Serafeim's book essential reading.

Book Review: The Case for Long-Term Value Investing

Jim Cullen presents the value strategy and explains how to apply it in any type of market.

Book Review: The Future of Money

Eswar S. Prasad provides an interesting and insightful exposition on the shifting landscape from traditional paper notes to digital currencies.

Book Review: Convertible Securities

Tracy V. Maitland, F. Barry Nelson, CFA, and Daniel G. Partlow's book "presents quantitatively sophisticated valuation methods and trading strategies, invoking terms of art that will be new even to many seasoned practitioners."

Book Review: The Revolution That Wasn’t

Spencer Jakab argues that Wall Street, not the everyday retail investor, won the meme stock revolution.

Book Review: Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing

Larry Swedroe and Samuel Adams's book is a good starting point for those seeking to understand the history and current practices of sustainable investing.

Book Review: The Price of Time

Almost unique among serious finance books, Edward Chancellor’s The Price of Time serves well as bedtime reading.