David Swensen is no stranger to the institutional investment community. He has famously managed the Yale University endowment fund since 1985, achieving annualized returns of 17.8% per year over the last decade. His investment approach, commonly referred to as The Yale Model, is an application in the extreme of modern portfolio theory and was (and [...]

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If Peter Lynch’s One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market doesn’t get you excited about stock picking, nothing will. Lynch has a penchant for making the mundane task of researching companies glamorous and exciting, which is ironic because his investment thesis [...]

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Up until a few years ago, I was a financial idiot.  I had heard the term 401k, of course, but I had no idea what it meant.  As I began to learn about investing and finance, I read probably 30 or 40 books.  Some of them proved to be more useful than others.  Here are [...]

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