Investing Made Simple: Investing in Index Funds Explained in 100 Pages or Less
Product Description
Find all of the following explained in plain-English with no technical jargon:
Asset Allocation: What does it mean, why is it so important, and how should you determine your own?
How to Pick Mutual Funds: Learn how to choose funds that are mathematically certain to outperform the majority of other mutual funds.
Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA vs. 401(k): What’s the difference, and how should you choose between them?
Financial Advisors: Learn what to look for as well as pitfalls to avoid.
Frequent Investor Mistakes: Learn the most common mistakes and what you can do to avoid them.
Calculate Your Retirement Needs: Learn how to calculate how much you’ll need saved in order to retire.
Who Is This Book For?
Anyone who has questions about investing, but who doesn’t want to trudge through a 300-page textbook.
What This Book Is Not:
This book is not a great work of literary art.
This book is not going to make you an absolute expert on the topic, and
This book is not going to provide you with a way to get rich overnight.
What it will do (hopefully) is provide an easy-to-understand, concise introduction to the topic of prudent investing.
Investing Made Simple: Investing in Index Funds Explained in 100 Pages or Less
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I downloaded the free version of this and read it all in under an hour. It was very informative, basic, and overall a fun read. Definitely looking forward to anything else Oblivious Investor puts out!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the ONLY book ANY of us needs on investing. If we have over $1000 welcome to Vanguard… if you have less than that and want to invest, well then he has the page in there with EFT’s you can buy them from tdameritrade for $10 and just buy and hold.
Now all you have to do is figure out how much you want to invest in stocks and bonds, many quizes online to help you with that. Just google “asset alocation” then go out and enjoy life, because this is one area of life that really is simple. If you are better with charts (visual) like me and everyone I know… go to vanguard dot com – then click on ” go to site” above the cups and below the vanguard ship you should see one of the colums says “insights”, you will see a row below that starts with “overview” on the left side…
Go to the right where it says “Investing truths”, there will be a box that says “the truth about risk” click on that… then scroll down the page to 3. “Are all your eggs in one basket” in those paragraphs you will see a link that says ” view our model portfolio applications” click on there and you will see how stocks and bonds did, in a way that makes it look simple, with a graph etc.
Its all a matter of finding low fees and growing with the market (period) doesn’t matter if you are type A or B, Tall or short male or female, this should be one of the easiest area of your life.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a good overview of the widely agreed upon principles of investing. At the end, he lists 20-25 books and blogs as “Helpful Resources”. I would describe this book as a short summary of the common points on investing between all those other resources.
This book is great for its intended audience (beginning investors). If you already know the benefits of index funds and a good asset allocation, you probably won’t get much out of it though.
Rating: 5 / 5
I received this book for Christmas, and I have to admit, at first I was somewhat hesitant of this book because of its length. During a long flight home however, I decided to give it a read and I couldn’t have been happier with the decision. As a young professional, I recognize how important it is to get started early in investing to one day meet my financial goals. This book clearly lays out a game plan to do so, while helping to understand/weed out much of the hype you hear about certain stocks, certain fund managers, and TV finance “guru’s”. The book is a perfect length, and well worth an afternoon read. The author’s website ([...]) is also filled with great investing tips, and goes into further depth about many of the books topics. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5 / 5
The perfect primer for anyone who wants to incorporate time proven investing techniques without having to become an “expert”.
Written for the layman in simple, direct, concise language…if one takes the suggestions and recommendations of this book to heart, time and the proper asset allocation will take care of most of the rest.
Highly recommended, especially for those who thought they couldn’t do it for themselves.
Rating: 5 / 5