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Brenda Jubin is an independent trader and investor with an academic and business background. She taught philosophy at Yale and was dean of Morse College, one of Yale's twelve undergraduate residential colleges. She then founded Brevis Press, a company specializing in academic press book ... more

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Book Review: The Sceptical Investor, By John Stepek
Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:46 AM EDT
Stepek does not recommend always doing the opposite of what the market is doing since the market often gets things right, which is why he prefers the term “skeptical” to “contrarian.”
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Book Review: The Blockchain Revolution - A Tale Of Insanity And Anarchy
Sunday, March 3, 2019 11:17 AM EDT
The Blockchain Revolution, by Andrew Updegrove, is not only a good read as a thriller. It’s also a thoroughly enjoyable way to learn more about blockchain systems and cryptocurrency.
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Book Review: Tailored Wealth Management
Monday, February 18, 2019 12:09 AM EDT
The author, Niall J. Gannon, is a financial advisor for high net worth individuals and families. And yet Tailored Wealth Management: Exploring the Cause and Effect of Financial Success is applicable to all investors, at any stage of their lives.
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Book Review: Zuboff, The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
Sunday, January 13, 2019 11:09 AM EDT
Shoshana Zuboff has the rare ability to take a subject that has been beaten to death and offer a fresh, provocative take. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is such a work.
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Book Review: Ochoa-Brillembourg, Delivering Alpha
Sunday, December 9, 2018 12:34 PM EDT
Delivering Alpha: Lessons from 30 Years of Outperforming Investment Benchmarks is written for “any finance professional who wants to know how to add sustainable value to globally diversified institutional portfolios.”
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Book Review: Furr Et Al., Leading Transformation
Sunday, November 11, 2018 10:42 AM EDT
Companies frequently have to reinvent themselves, a task neglected because of comfort with the familiar and fear of the unknown and because management simply doesn’t know how to go about envisaging a different trajectory, let alone implementing it.
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Book Review: Invested, By Danielle Town
1 year ago

Normally, I get review copies from publishers or publicists. Then I decide what books would be of interest to my readers.

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Brenda Jubin
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(From the post that launched my blog) Traders and investors should be readers. We may not invest like Warren Buffett, but it may pay to emulate him in one respect. He reads. As Charlie Munger advised, "If you want to succeed, if you really want to be the outlier in terms of achievement, just sit down . . . ...More

and read -- and do it all the time." Admittedly, traders can’t spend their days reading the way a long-term investor like Buffett does, but then they don’t have to slog through countless financial statements and annual reports. They do, however, want to have an equity chart that slopes convincingly upward from left to right, indicating that they have an edge and are executing well. And one way to achieve this is to read and then read some more.