Charles D. Ellis writes about investment management, market efficiency and the difficulty professional investors face when trying to outperform one another. Winning the Loser's Game argues that investing increasingly resembles a game in which avoiding unnecessary errors, fees and excessive trading matters more than finding brilliant short-term winners. The Partnership chronicles Goldman Sachs, while other books examine investment organisations, governance and long-term policy. Ellis's prose is calm, strategic and aimed at investors, trustees and finance professionals rather than speculative traders. His bibliography sits most naturally across index-oriented investing, portfolio management and financial institutions. Winning the Loser's Game is the key starting point because it explains his central argument for disciplined asset allocation, low costs and realistic expectations in markets where most participants are already highly informed. Read more Less