Review

Smart(er) Investing: How Academic Insights Propel the Savvy Investor. 2019. Elisabetta Basilico, PhD, CFA, and Tommi Johnsen, PhD, Palgrave Macmillan. Editor’s Note: The reviewer and the primary author of the…

Achieving Investment Excellence: A Practical Guide for Trustees of Pension Funds, Endowments and Foundations. 2019. Kees Koedijk, Alfred Slager, and Jaap van Dam. John Wiley & Sons. Most investment books…

The Income Factory: An Investor’s Guide to Consistent Lifetime Returns. 2020. Steven Bavaria. McGraw-Hill Education. Professional investors can find unique, well-differentiated ideas among the abundant output of many contributors to…

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning. 2020. Gautam Baid, CFA. Columbia Business School Publishing. In The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Gautam…

Financial Markets and Institutions: A European Perspective (fourth edition). 2020. Jakob de Haan, Dirk Schoenmaker, and Peter Wierts. Cambridge University Press. Financial Markets and Institutions: A European Perspective is intended…

Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry. 2020. J.C. de Swaan. Cambridge University Press. J.C. de Swaan, an investment practitioner who teaches business ethics to Princeton…

Active Investing in the Age of Disruption. 2020. Evan L. Jones. John Wiley & Sons. Aggressive central bank intervention and accelerating innovation have increased the difficulty of generating alpha from…

Advances in Retirement Investing. 2020. Lionel Martellini and Vincent Milhau. Cambridge University Press, Elements in Quantitative Finance Series. This is an essential source for cohesive retirement investment strategies based on…

Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes. 2018. Bruce I. Jacobs. McGraw Hill Education. Too Smart for Our Own Good is a…

Fed Watching for Fun & Profit: A Primer for Investors. 2020. Edward Yardeni. YRI Press. Fed Watching for Fun & Profit: A Primer for Investors provides a detailed explanation of…