Pitch the Perfect Investment
The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street

Literally think this is the only book on investing you'll ever need (especially if you're considering a career on the buy-side). The chapters about EMH, variant perception, thinking about consensus and how to structure the pitch are probably worth the price of the book itself. As an incoming buy-side......more

A good book for beginners. Slightly less useful for experienced guys.......more

Excellent book for analysts. Best part for me was the PITCH design. I have been analyzing stocks for years, but it is difficult to communicate my ideas. The deeper my analysis, the harder it is to clearly state my position. Ironically, my best ideas are the my most difficult to present. This book give......more

The authors synthesize authorities like Klarman, Marks, Buffett, Greenblatt, Munger, Schiller, tie together all the thinking, and provide helpful visual examples of how to think of things like wisdom of crowds and efficient market hypothesis. There is also work on risk and market psychology that add......more

The book got to its actual point only in the last 50 pages. Even then a lot of the points made were very general and self-evident to anyone who has ever worked in business (such as the effect of appearance on one's credibility). The introduction of the general aspects of investing in the beginning w......more