Best resources for finance professionals
1 min readJul 10, 2021
In the order of awesomeness
Academic Books (Investment Banking):
- Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions (Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl)
- Financial Modeling & Valuation (Paul Pignataro)
- Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity (David Stowell)
- Extras: Any books by Paul Pignataro, McKinsey on Valuation, Damodaran on Valuation
Leisure Finance Books:
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- A random walk down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
- Extras: Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Psychology of Money
Daily News:
- Financial Times
- Wall Street Journal
- New York Times
- Extras: Reuters, CNBC
Weekly News or Magazines:
Newsletters:
- New York Times: Deal Book Newsletter by Andrew Sorkin(free)
- Bloomberg: Money Stuff Newsletter by Matt Levine (free)
- Seeking Alpha: Wall Street Breakfast (free)
- Extras: Morning Brew (free)
Blogs:
- Aswath Damodaran: Musings on Markets
- Barry Ritholtz: The Big Picture
- Nick Maggiulli: Of Dollars and Data
- Extras: Collaborate Fund, A Wealth of Common Sense
Podcasts:
- Masters in Business by Barry Ritholtz
- Exchanges at Goldman Sachs
- Motley Fool Money (also Industry)
- Extras: Odd Lots, Invest like the best
YouTube Channels:
- Aswath Damodaran
- Mergers and Inquisitions
- Corporate Finance Institute
- Extras: Wall Street Prep, Wall Street Oasis, Wall Street Mojo
Active Forums:
- Security Analysis (Reddit)
- Investing (Reddit)
- Wall Street Oasis
- Extras (if your life is lacking excitement): Wall Street Bets, Dogecoin:)
Movies:
- Margin Call
- The Big Short
- Wall Street (1987)
- Extras (fun): Wolf of Wall Street, Limitless