 | Cars, Cholera and Cows by John Adams
You can find it used. Very interesting. Great treaty on the behavioral component to risk management. Read my review for a good summary.
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 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, First Edition by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy used from: $5.15 An irreverent book on trading and hedging strategies. Also, interesting profiles of professional traders who are not so competent after all.
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 | Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series) by Martha Amram
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $3.49 Best user friendly treaty on Real Options.
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 | Financial Risk Management In Banking: The Theory and Application of Asset and Liability Management by Dennis Uyemura
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $16.84 An excellent introduction to ALM.
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 | Futures, Options and Swaps by Robert W. Kolb
Buy used from: $0.62 Excellent. More accessible than John Hull's book on the same topic. Great introduction to derivatives.
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 | Managing Financial Risk: A Guide to Derivative Products, Financial Engineering, and Value Maximization by Charles Smithson
Buy new: $50.10 / Used from: $12.45 Solid reference book on derivatives and how to use them to manage financial risk.
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.97 You can learn from others failure. These were the most brilliant people, yet they made human errors because their egos got in the way. Lots to pick up about risk management here.
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 | The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J. Shiller
Buy used from: $0.40 Really "out of the box" macro risk management concepts.
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 | Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk by Ron S. Dembo
Buy new: $37.95 / Used from: $0.60 An excellent and different perspective on risk, and how to manage it.
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