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Investment legend Jim Rogers. PHOTO: Reuters

Updated : Jul 24, 2013

Investment legend Jim Rogers looks back on his own life in latest book

Investment legend Jim Rogers on his own life and why he is betting on Asia, especially China.

Updated : Jan 25, 2011

Winning technique

Go through this entertaining primer on stock market trading, which lists useful tips and practical pointers for beginners.

Updated : Dec 24, 2010

Grounded in basics

It's yet another primer on markets, but both veteran and novice investors can benefit from the lucid, sound advice.

Updated : Oct 29, 2010

Course Correction

The handy guide provides tips on how to ensure smooth career transitions by realigning your working style.

Updated : Oct 29, 2010

Father of all investing truths

Celeb American investor Jim Rogers sweeps up his financial savvy, peppers it with pragmatic posits on life and packages it as an overtly impassioned legacy for his two daughters in A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing.

Updated : Oct 7, 2010

Cents and sensibility

With a pulse on the female psyche, the book offers realistic solutions to the financial troubles of women.

Updated : Jul 27, 2010

The school of logic

Pick the book to identify how your investing logic may be cheating you and beat the biases that mar sound decision-making.

Updated : Jul 27, 2010

Jack of all trades

Conor Woodman stops providentially short of being the proverbial Jack. He trades relentlessly, but escapes the unflattering epithet because he masters a few.

Updated : May 12, 2010

The stock rule: Stating the obvious

The author's secrets are common knowledge, but his success in investing should prompt a perusal of the book by investors.

Updated : Apr 9, 2010

Basically, do you know your company?

A book for both investors and initiates, it will help you know about companies by deconstructing the basics and weeding out the jargon.

Updated : Apr 9, 2010

Are you betting on a madoff redux?

It's common knowledge that bull markets breed financial fraud, and with the world heading towards an upswing, scamsters are bound to get creative sooner or later.

Updated : Mar 22, 2010

Venturing for finance? No fear

Most aspiring entrepreneurs see venture capitalists as sharks with loads of money, waiting to snap up a good business if it turns profitable or steal the idea and kick them out.

Updated : Jan 25, 2010

Chinese fund of wisdom

Using the Chinese paradigm is a good strategy to explain finance, but the two books fail on several counts.

Updated : Jan 21, 2010

Trading routes

Read the book only if you want to benefit from investor psychology or if you are an aspiring trader with strong fundamentals.

Updated : Jan 21, 2010

In the market for profit? Don't panic

Do you feel like kicking yourself for the mistakes of 2008? If you are like the millions of equity investors who do, Market Panic by Stephen Vines should help you avoid repeating the costly blunders.

Updated : Dec 26, 2009

Making the world go round

Did you know the legendary ‘Hebrew talisman’, supposed to be the secret behind the Rothschild fortune, is actually the bond market?

Updated : Dec 26, 2009

In the write business

With its simple style and realistic approach to dealing with the challenges of a start-up, the book is a mustread for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Updated : Aug 27, 2009

Shoppers' stop: Wisdom on sale

Confessions of a Shopaholic is teeming with sinful antics and spiked remorselessly with humour.

Updated : Aug 27, 2009

The cost of conduct

Read this book if you want to balance your financial and emotional quotients, not if you are looking to double your money in a hurry.

Updated : Jul 30, 2009

Practical primers

Read these books to ease into the concepts of personal finance even as you improve your economic worth.

Updated : Jul 16, 2009

Tomorrow's truths

It could have been dismissed as yet another tome devoted to deciphering the Crisis. But in predicting the global trends and explaining how they can be of use, the book demands a read by serious investors, says P.V. Subramanyam.