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Your Last Gift
Matthew Hutton’s guide to end-of-life planning addresses crucial but often overlooked aspects of estate planning. Through practical checklists and straightforward advice, the book aims to simplify this complex but necessary process to reduce future stress for loved ones.
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Thinking in Bets
In Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke distils her insights from academia and professional poker into decision-making advice which can lead to improved investment skill.
6 mins |
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Material World
Ed Conway’s Material World highlights the disconnect between our technological, services-based society and the physical materials underpinning it, raising questions around climate goals.
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The Currency of Politics
In The Currency of Politics, Stefan Eich argues that successive asset price bubbles show money needs to come back under explicit political control.
6 mins | Alex Lennard
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The Outsiders
Most CEOs focus on managing operations and neglect capital allocation. This is a mistake, argues Will Thorndike, in a book featuring eight outsider CEOs whose unorthodox pursuit of quality capital allocation has driven strong returns.
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Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers
Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers is about the sociology of science and the ‘unplanned and messy’ nature of knowledge and knowledge systems. Turnbull explores, in rather turgid prose, differing ways of producing knowledge across cultures. From a diversity of disparate systems, he finds figures that crop up time and again.
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Trillion Dollar Coach
The future of information technology is beyond the comprehension of most. And competition between the companies who want to shape it is fiercer than ever.
2 mins |
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The Shock of the Old
At the heart of historical enquiry are two simple questions: ‘What has changed?’ and ‘What has stayed the same?’ For investors, concerned with the future value of assets, these questions can be reframed: ‘What will change?’ and ‘What will stay the same?’
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Engage the Enemy More Closely
What's the difference between knowledge and wisdom? The answer is that these two elements need to fuse in a chemical reaction to produce an effective investment strategy – covet wisdom, and you have time on your side; covet knowledge, and you have facts on your side. It is, of course, the luck of the draw as to which one is the winner on Wednesday.
5 mins | Jonathan Ruffer
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The Profit Paradox
Jan Eeckhout is a research professor; fortunately, he doesn't write like one. Despite the serious subject matter of The Profit Paradox his style is engaging and conversational, and the book is light on its feet and commendably free of jargon.
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