WILEY The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

Down to earth, easy to read and a very concrete. Right to the good stuff and no running around in circles.Would really recommend for anyone looking to invest and/or looking for more knowledge.

Great book about how to manage real expectations and how to use common sense in our investments. I can only recommend it

I have read the most recent version of Malkiel’s “A Random Walk Down Mainstreet,” and it made me thankful for those people who actually go out and try to make a return for themselves on the market. It provides a service that current leftist critiques of finance capitalism forget – they provide liquidity and aid price discovery. Now, that is just a small part of what they do, and the bulk of their profits are actual rents, and half of the people will end up losers whatever system they try – because there are some patterns in the market, but I am a believer that the market will stay irrational longer than I can stay liquid. I guess at heart I am pretty conservative about what I do with my money because people like Malkiel and Bogle speak to me so much.This book is like a cover version of Malkiel’s classic, coming in with a shorter page count and being less of a sales document – though where the recent “Random Walk” made me curious about Wealthfront and reading this made me go to the Vanguard website, I still am paying more in fees than I should to the company-administered 403(b) even in their so-called Index Fund. This is a pretty well-written book, but it does have a bit of an odd structure, with short chapters closed by asides referencing the current point made with an outside source instead of integrating it in the main chapter. Overall, though, it is a strong case for indexing your funds and taking advantage of the work the active traders do. When you are buying the market, you are giving up the chance of some great stock or sector that goes parabolic, but it also prevents you from thinking you are clever and taking a short position in that same sector just before it goes parabolic. Buy and hold and buy again seems to be the best way to ensure that the money you do invest will be there when you need it at the end of your life. I’m not trying to get rich by any means, but I’m also not looking to degrade the quality of my life at the end.

I am almost new to investing and just learning. It was a quick half a day read that I learned a lot about index funds, mutual funds, ETFs, and bond fund. Totally worth the time and money. I like that it is not a book of jargon but gives you vision. As far as I learned it is very important in investment to know what I'm doing.

This is the one book you musr read again and again ,give it as a gift to your spouse and kids ,it will help your next generations.they will thank you for giving a gem of advice on index investing . in such a small little book ,every page is packed with solid advice on how majesty of simplicity is better than complexity. just invest in low cost ,traditional ,classic ,conventional market cap. weighted all stock market index funds ,all bond market index funds and all international market index fund. if you want to invest in just one mutual fund just buy a traditional INDEX balanced fund direct ,dividened reinvested to enjoy the magic of compounding for long term above 10 TO 30 YEARS or forever .o stranger the airthmatic is ultimate science,mother of all safety. never pay a sales load or expense ratio above 0.20% for an index fund,as in long term cost matters. I have ordered all 10 books written by john c. bogle ,and 2 boglehead guides on investing and on retirement plan . what I was reading before ? bogle each book is filled with tons of financial knowledge ,the integrity and straight talk ,bogle writes for the benefit of investors, take full benefit of it ,stop subscription to useless financial magzines and newsletters ,invest same money in true knowledge of index investing revolution caused by vanguard founder in 1974 with LAUNCH of first vanguard s&p 500 index fund IN 1976 by john c.bogle which now became the largest fund of the world.DR ANIL GUPTA MD (NEW-YORK) CARDIOLOGIST now a true boglehead