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Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street (2007) https://amzn.to/2Hr2SW1
Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (2008) https://amzn.to/3hUkFl6
Jack Schwager, Market Wizards Series https://amzn.to/3a89diH
Jack Schwager, Market Sense And Nonsense (2013) https://amzn.to/3jerS0Z
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness (2007) https://amzn.to/365wN08
Victor Niederhoffer, Education of a Speculator (1998) https://amzn.to/2EuhMJZ
Victor Niederhoffer, Practical Speculation (2004) https://amzn.to/2Hr3nzn
Dimson, E., Marsh, P., and M. Staunton, Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns (2002) https://amzn.to/363JWXG
Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed (2001) https://amzn.to/364aHv7
Ivan Boesky, Merger Mania (1985) https://amzn.to/3crKszQ
Howard Marks, The Most Important Thing (2011) https://amzn.to/30n89EX
Frank Partnoy, F.I.A.S.C.O. (1999) https://amzn.to/366gGj4
Michael Lewis, Liars Poker (1989) The Big Short (2010) https://amzn.to/3mPjhE1
Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved the Market (2019) https://amzn.to/2FVOZi8

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Risk & Return in Finance.
The higher the risk taken, the more greater the expected return should be, and conversely, the lower the risk, the more modest the expected return. In this class we learn about how traders and portfolio managers think about risk and return. We learn about indifference curves, diversification and the importance of correlation in building a portfolio. We learn about sharpe ratio, sortino ratio and beta.


Often people are confused by the idea of the risk return tradeoff. They think that taking a higher risk means that you are guaranteed a higher return. Of course, if this was the case, risk would not be risky. In finance what the risk return tradeoff is referring to is the idea that an investor would only agree to take greater risk, if they believed that the positive outcomes were greater than the positive outcomes achieved for low risk investments.