Overview

The CFA Society New York Book Club® meets every other month and is designed to be an informal group discussion on a multitude of investment related topics. The author is not present as this is simply a discussion on the book of the month to help members further digest the material and meet other like-minded CFA Society NY members. We will generally have 2-3 books planned in advance so members can pick and choose which ones they are interested in reading prior to the meeting. Overall, a way to build on our investment knowledge and meet other members.

Book Club History

  • The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland
  • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel
  • The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived by Ralph Watson and Marc Wortman
  • The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
  • Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford De Long

  • Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century by Chris Blackhurst
  • Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington
  • Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by Dan McCrum
  • Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
  • The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All by Mary Childs
  • Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

  • Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David M. Cote
  • The Death of the Banker by Ron Chernow
  • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
  • The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
  • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman

  • Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World Without Work by Daniel Susskind
  • No Filter by Sarah Frier
  • Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
  • Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton