Free Capital: How 12 Private Investors Made Millions in the Stock Market is a book by Guy Thomas. It was written a few years ago now, but Amazon touted it to me over the weekend and, sitting at home on lockdown, I clicked and bought. Fortunately, it was a good decision. The book is eminently […]

The Most Important Thing, by Howard Marks, is a thought-provoking book. Rather than focus on rules, formulae, metrics, or ratios, he concentrates on the psychology of investing. While a lot of investment books leave you with a feeling that a combination of discipline and rules will do the trick, Marks’ book leaves you asking questions and thinking […]

The Little Book That Beats The Market, by Joel Greenblatt, is an interesting book but it is indeed little, to the extent that it can be read in one or two sittings. Greenblatt says that his aim is to teach his children (spin-offs) how to make money for themselves. To do this, he advocates a form of system investing […]

Hetty The Genius and Madness of American’s First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack (2004) If known for anything at all today, Hetty Green is most likely known only through her “World’s Greatest Miser” entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Having read the above thoroughly enjoyable biography and given her the benefit of the doubt for as long […]

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher (1957) Hindsight must be the most useless and distracting tool in the investor’s armoury, but it does serve one purpose–it enables you to immediately identify and read the seminal works on the subject, rather than wasting your untethered-to-the-desk hours on drivel. If you do happen to peruse a best-of list, then it won’t take long to encounter a […]