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Harold H. Zhang's Book Recommendations:

"A classic investment guide for long-term investment strategy and personal money management." --on A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
This is an excellent book on the history of risk, its measurement, and management.

Big Bets Gone Bad by Philippe Jorion
This is a very readable book on the complex world of derivatives and the disastrous outcome of inappropriate use of these assets by Orange County Investment Pool.

Harold Zhang
Texas-Dallas

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
A classic investment guide for long-term investment strategy and personal money management.

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein
This is a great book on the search for new ideas on the capital markets.



Biographical info: Harold H. Zhang is a professor of finance at the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on the optimal investment and portfolio decisions of investors and the pricing of financial assets. His recent research on taxable and tax-deferred investments published in the Journal of Finance has received the 2004 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security.

Before he joined the University of Texas at Dallas, he was on the faculty of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. For more information on Zhang, visit www.utdallas.edu/~hxz054000.