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    By Julie Steinberg

    If you're planning to break into hedge funds


    or want to accelerate your career in the
    industry, it's useful to read the same books
    that bigwigs in the field do.

    We spoke to Roy Cohen, career coach and


    author of The Wall Street Professional's
    Survival Guide: Success Secrets of a Career
    Coach, who gave an insider's view of books
    that hedge fund professionals -- his clients --
    deem essential reads for those in the
    industry.

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