Biography

Alistair Blair is an investment journalist. He read PPE at Oxford and completed an MBA at Manchester Business School. He has 10 years of practical City experience, having worked at Hill Samuel and Fidelity Investments.A regular contributor to Investors Chronicle and other national publications, he also runs a small investment fund.
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
The classic that spawned many of today's most popular investment beliefs - still a "must-read" for all traders Forbes describes him as "one of the sem...
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psycholog...
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Fooled by Randomness
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Jesse Livermore - World's Greatest Stock Trader
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One Up On Wall Street
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
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Stocks for the Long Run
Now, the intellectual father of the record-breaking bull market returns with Stocks for the Long Run, Third Edition. Siegel's conclusion - that, when...
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The Great Crash, 1929
No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous and so carefully authenticated as this classic...
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The Intelligent Investor
The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its origi...
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The Money Game
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