Brenda Jubin, Author At ValueWalk

Geoff Mulgan: Big Mind [Book Review]

Geoff Mulgan’s Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World (Princeton University Press, 2018) is a thoughtful, quasi-philosophical book … Read more

The Smart Financial Advisor

The subtitle of Bill Martin’s The Smart Financial Advisor (Harriman House, 2017) says it all: How Financial Advisors Can Thrive … Read more

Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks

Jake Bernstein’s Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite (Henry Holt, 2017) … Read more

Glen Arnold – The Deals of Warren Buffett

Glen Arnold, a former academic (professor of investment and professor of corporate finance) turned more or less fulltime investor as … Read more

Ten Great Ideas About Chance

Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms (Princeton University Press, 2018) grew out of a course … Read more

Alan Pell Crawford - How Not to Get Rich

How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain

Let me explain right away what this strangely titled book is about. Its full title and subtitle are How Not … Read more

Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits [Book Review]

Most self-help books fail because they offer easy paths to success. Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That … Read more

Beyond Smart Beta

More than 4,400 ETFs are currently available globally, and more than one million indices are calculated daily—“a dizzying range of … Read more

Robert L. Reynolds – From Here To Security [Book Review]

Robert L. Reynolds, president and CEO of Great-West Financial and Putnam Investments, was a pioneer in the 401(k) business for … Read more

Claudia Zeisberger, Mastering Private Equity [Book Review]

Claudia Zeisberger, a professor at INSEAD, and two INSEAD alumni, Michael Prahl and Bowen Whtie, joined forces to write Mastering … Read more

Diana B. Henriques, A First-Class Catastrophe

Black Monday – Not A Black Swan Event?

Black Monday (October 19, 1987), when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 22%, was not a black swan event. … Read more

Scott E. Page: The Diversity Bonus [Book Review]

Scott E. Page is one of my favorite writers. A professor of complex systems, political science, and economics at the … Read more

A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation (Wiley Finance) by William Kinlaw

Kinlaw et al., A Practitioner’s Guide To Asset Allocation [Book Review]

William Kinlaw, Mark P. Kritzman, and David Turkington have written a carefully researched book that reaches sometimes counterintuitive (or at … Read more