https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/Recent content in Miscellaneous on r/IndiaInvestments WikiHugoen-inhttps://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/miscellaneous/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/miscellaneous/<h1 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h1> <p><a href="us-investing">US Investing</a> </p> <p><a href="recommended-reading">Recommended Reading</a> </p>https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/us-investing/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/us-investing/<h1 id="us-investing">US Investing</h1> <h2 id="us-etfs-and-index-funds">US ETFs and Index Funds</h2> <p>There are several indices involved in the US markets similar to the Indian counterparts Sensex and Nifty. As with India most of the ETFs and mutual funds you will find in the market will be either tracking these indices (Index funds or ETFs) or be benchmarked to them.</p> <h2 id="meeting-the-indices">Meeting the Indices</h2> <p>As with India there&rsquo;s several indices in the US though we will focus on some of the big ones.</p>https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/recommended-reading/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/misc/recommended-reading/<h1 id="recommended-reading">Recommended Reading</h1> <h2 id="books">Books</h2> <p>Recommended Reading List:</p> <h3 id="the-classics">The Classics</h3> <ol> <li>The <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/1u7u2y/the_richest_man_in_babylon_one_of_the_best/">Richest Man in Babylon</a> .</li> <li>Ben Graham – The Intelligent Investor (and Security Analysis).</li> <li>Phil Fisher – Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings. His son Ken Fisher’s book (The Only three Questions That Count) is also very good.</li> <li>Warren Buffett’s Shareholder <a href="https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html">Letters</a> &amp; The Essays of Warren Buffett.</li> <li>Charlie Munger – Poor Charlie’s Almanack.</li> <li>Seth Klarman – Margin of Safety.</li> <li>Howard Marks – The Most Important Thing. and <a href="https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos">Memos</a> .</li> <li>George Soros – The Alchemy of Finance</li> <li>Peter Lynch – Beating the Wall Street &amp; One Up On Wall Street.</li> <li>Joel Greenblatt – The Little Book that Beats the Market (there is another book The Little Book that Still Beats the Market). &amp; You Can Be A Stock Market Genius.</li> <li>Nassim Taleb – The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.</li> <li>William Bernstein – The Four Pillars of Investing and The Investor’s Manifesto.</li> <li>John C Bogle – Common Sense on Mutual Funds.</li> <li>Charles Ellis – Winning the Loser’s Game.</li> </ol> <h3 id="other-popular-books">Other Popular Books</h3> <ol> <li>David Dremen - Contrarian Investment Strategies The Next Generation.</li> <li>Robert Shiller – Irrational Exuberance</li> <li>Jeremy Seigel – Stocks for the Long Run.</li> <li>Martin Whitman – The Aggressive Conservative Investor</li> <li>John Kenneth Galbraith - A Short History of Financial Euphoria.</li> <li>Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (by Charles Mackay).</li> <li>Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (by Edwin Lefevre).</li> <li>Andrew Tobias - The Only Investment guide You’ll Ever Need. This is a very small book and good for beginners.</li> <li>David Einhorn - Fooling Some of the People All of the Time</li> <li>James Montier – The Little Book of Behavioral Investing. His <a href="http://eurosharelab.com/james-montier-resource-page/">work</a> .</li> <li>Michael Mauboussin – More than You Know.</li> <li>Daniel Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow.</li> <li>For some interesting concepts: Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki.</li> </ol> <h3 id="statistics">Statistics</h3> <p>How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (1954 book). It is a must-read. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/26rscu/suggested_book_list/cjh69q3?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x">Summary Here</a> .</p>