Research Guides: Investment Research: Home

Investing Guide Overview

This guide provides information on investment research. The resources available in library databases can be helpful when doing research related to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, index funds, etc. The information available in this guide is not intended as investment advice. All content in this guide is meant for educational purposes only. For help with actual investing, please be sure to consult your financial professional.

The following two databases include education guides:

Morningstar Investment Research Center

Real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds.
Value Line Investment Survey - Plus

Search a vast array of financial measures for over 6,000 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, 200,000 options, and other securities. Delve into Value Line’s accurate estimates, projections and historical data to discover opportunities that fit your investment strategy. Click on Dashboard and explore “Quick Links” to view more industry and stock analyses. Help Guides

E-Books and Vidoes

Deep Learning for Finance by Sofien Kaabar
ISBN: 9781098148393
Publication Date: 2024-02-13
Deep learning is rapidly gaining momentum in the world of finance and trading. But for many professional traders, this sophisticated field has a reputation for being complex and difficult. This hands-on guide teaches you how to develop a deep learning trading model from scratch using Python, and it also helps you create and backtest trading algorithms based on machine learning and reinforcement learning. Sofien Kaabar--financial author, trading consultant, and institutional market strategist--introduces deep learning strategies that combine technical and quantitative analyses. By fusing deep learning concepts with technical analysis, this unique book presents outside-the-box ideas in the world of financial trading.
Financial Data Engineering by Khraisha, T.
ISBN: 9781098159993
Publication Date: 2024
Today, investment in financial technology and digital transformation is reshaping the financial landscape and generating many opportunities. Too often, however, engineers and professionals in financial institutions lack a practical view of the concepts, problems, techniques, and technologies necessary to build a modern, reliable, and scalable financial data infrastructure.
Global Investing by Darrin Erickson
ISBN: 9781119856665
Publication Date: 2022-12-08
Identify and invest in the world's best performing companies In Global Investing: A Practical Guide to the World's Best Financial Opportunities, veteran portfolio manager Darrin Erickson walks readers through how to best analyze, understand, and invest in leading global businesses. In the book, you'll discover how you can improve the performance of your investment portfolio by taking advantage of opportunities that exist outside of the borders of the country you happen to inhabit. The author discusses how to identify and make investments around the world in effective and efficient ways, and how to successfully manage the risks associated with investing in a foreign country.
Investment Banking by Joshua Pearl; Joshua Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9781119867876
Publication Date: 2022-02-23
An essential, all-in-one guide to investment banking and valuation, complete with downloadable models - this new edition reflects valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP plus access to the online valuation models and course. The thoroughly revised Third Edition of Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (Book + Valuation Models) delivers the most current discussion of valuation and deal-making fundamentals essential to the work of investment bankers, private equity professionals, hedge fund investors, corporate lawyers, executives, and students. Drawing on over four decades of combined experience in investment banking and investing, authors Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl explain how to perform the valuation work and financial analysis at the core of Wall Street