My reading list

Occasionally people in our industry ask me what I read, and it's always a useful topic to get a sense on how others think about the craft of investment and risk management.  I read extensively, generally in a disciplined fashion, and find that the habit improves my decision making.

I've set up seven different categories of research I follow, in separate bookmarks.  I also use a news-feed aggregator, to keep track of all the excellent blogs that also are publishing serious material.  It's harder to keep up with blogs so sometimes those get reviewed on the weekends.

What I follow, with items in bold of most import.

Mass Media & Market Data - via their sites as well as my terminal

• Bloomberg Professional
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Barron's

Independent Research & Newsletters

• Bank Credit Analyst
• High Tech Strategist
• Grant's Interest Rate Observer
• Global Macro Investor
• Green Street Advisors
• Morningstar
• LitmanGregory
• Ed Yardeni
• TrendMacrolytics
• AnalytixInsight (irregularly)
• Roubini Global Economics (irregularly)

Trade Journals & Professional Societies

• Pensions & Investments
• Institutional Investor / Investor Intelligence Network
• Hedge Fund Alert
• CFA Institute
• CAIA AllaboutAlpha
• GARP

Buyside Research, Investor Letters, and White Papers

• Bridgewater Daily Observations (if you can get this, it's superb)
• PIMCO Insights
• GMO
• Wellington Knowledge Bank
• Van Hoisington
• Third Avenue
• Warren Buffet
• Eclectica/Hugh Hendry
• NeubergerBerman
• Research Affiliates
• BlackRock Insights
• Partners Group
• Hussman

Sellside Research

• Goldman Sachs (esp David Kostin, Buzz Gregory, Jan Hatzius)
• Barclays (Barry Knapp, credit, and index research)
• Deutsche Bank (quant work, program trading)
• Societe Generale (cross asset)
• Credit Suisse (quant research, derivs)
• Nomura (macro, quant)
• JP Morgan (quant, macro, economic, as well as their buyside notes, especially Michael Cembalist)

Academic Research (I should probably allocate more time to the practitioner journals)

• Q Group
• Columbia GSB
• SSRN
• Journal of Investment Management (irregularly)
• MSCI / Barra
• FRB Banks as well as some NGOs (IMF, EBRD, BIS etc.)

Ratings Agencies (I've been impressed by CreditSights in the past, but don't use them currently)

• Moody's
• S&P

Consultants (Even though I have access to a half dozen investment consultants work, it's rare in this category for anything to be notable but these are ones I've liked)

• BCG
• McKinsey
• Russell Investments
• Tower Watson

Blogs (some publish frequently, some less so... and this list is roughly in order of importance/priority)

• ZeroHedge
• Dealbreaker
• Aleph
• Calculated Risk
• Abnormal Returns
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Monitor
• Bronte Capital
• Falkenblog
• Distressed Debt Investor
• Dealbook Deal Professor
• WorldBeta
• Michael Pettis China Financial Markets
• Dr Housing Bubble
• Greg Mankiw
• Infectious Greed
• Jimmy Rogers
• Felix Salmon
• Rick Bookstaber
• MPI Blog

There's a lot of information out there, and filtering the signal from the noise is more important that actually getting more data.  It's easier to read confirmatory viewpoints/analysis, but usually does not provide as much value as seeing the opposing view.