Biography
Richard Beddard has been editor of the investment website, Interactive Investor, since 1999. In December 2003 he launched a 'Financial Big Read' which aimed to find out from Interactive Investors' users which is the most popular investment book of all time. To kick-start the research, he gave his own list of favourites and the reasons why he liked them, which we reprint below - updated for 2005.
Book Recommendations
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, 8th
The million-copy bestseller, now fully up-to-date and ready for post-dot-com investors.
Using the dot-com crash as an object lesson in how not to m...
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The Zurich Axioms
If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must learn neither to avoi...
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Accounts Demystified, 4th Edition
This is the new edition of the bestselling guide to understanding and using business accounts and accounting principles, written in a way that even th...
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Charters on Charting
Continuation patterns, head and shoulders, necklines, pennants, trendlines, candlestick charts - 'Oh no!' another financial book full of jargon and in...
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How to Read the Financial Pages
Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and finance, "How to Read the Financial Pages" is a layman's guide to reading and understandi...
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Fast Food Nation
The story of fast food is to a large extent the story of post-war America. In a perverse way, it is also the story of Britain since the deregulation o...
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The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets
From the world-famous inventor of fractal geometry, a revolutionary new theory that turns on its head our understanding of how markets work.
Fracta...
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One Up on Wall Street
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD OWN Peter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can beco...
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Adventure Capitalist
"My success in the market has been predicated on viewing the world from a different perspective."
Jim Rogers, "the Indiana Jone...
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