Best resources for finance professionals

Thrilok Kandagatla
1 min readJul 10, 2021

In the order of awesomeness

Academic Books (Investment Banking):

  1. Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions (Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl)
  2. Financial Modeling & Valuation (Paul Pignataro)
  3. Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity (David Stowell)
  4. Extras: Any books by Paul Pignataro, McKinsey on Valuation, Damodaran on Valuation

Leisure Finance Books:

  1. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  2. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
  3. A random walk down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
  4. Extras: Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Psychology of Money

Daily News:

  1. Financial Times
  2. Wall Street Journal
  3. New York Times
  4. Extras: Reuters, CNBC

Weekly News or Magazines:

  1. Economist
  2. Barron’s
  3. Bloomberg Business Week
  4. Extras: Fortune, Forbes

Newsletters:

  1. New York Times: Deal Book Newsletter by Andrew Sorkin(free)
  2. Bloomberg: Money Stuff Newsletter by Matt Levine (free)
  3. Seeking Alpha: Wall Street Breakfast (free)
  4. Extras: Morning Brew (free)

Blogs:

  1. Aswath Damodaran: Musings on Markets
  2. Barry Ritholtz: The Big Picture
  3. Nick Maggiulli: Of Dollars and Data
  4. Extras: Collaborate Fund, A Wealth of Common Sense

Podcasts:

  1. Masters in Business by Barry Ritholtz
  2. Exchanges at Goldman Sachs
  3. Motley Fool Money (also Industry)
  4. Extras: Odd Lots, Invest like the best

YouTube Channels:

  1. Aswath Damodaran
  2. Mergers and Inquisitions
  3. Corporate Finance Institute
  4. Extras: Wall Street Prep, Wall Street Oasis, Wall Street Mojo

Active Forums:

  1. Security Analysis (Reddit)
  2. Investing (Reddit)
  3. Wall Street Oasis
  4. Extras (if your life is lacking excitement): Wall Street Bets, Dogecoin:)

Movies:

  1. Margin Call
  2. The Big Short
  3. Wall Street (1987)
  4. Extras (fun): Wolf of Wall Street, Limitless

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