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Online financial reading
By Jon Menaster | July 10, 2007
Stuck at work, nothing to do? Want to read and bring your financial literacy up to a respectable level? Well try reading a few chapters of some of my favorite books. First off William Bernstein’s excellent website, The Efficient Frontier, has the first chapter of his great book, “The Four Pillars of Investing” available for reading. The Four Pillars is a book written for people who don’t particularly like math. If you’re a math buff and would think nothing of calculating the standard deviation of a portfolio, try reading the first two chapters of Bernstein’s other book, The Intelligent Asset Allocator.
I also highly recommend “Investment Strategies for the 21st Century” by Frank Armstrong. The ENTIRE text of the book is available online, and I would definitely save it to your hard drive in case the website goes down. Check out Chapter 22, which is a wonderful discussion about financial pornography that dominates most of the news media, and really only serves to hurt and not help the investing public.
So there you go, more reading then you could ever hope to do in a day. Or even a week or a month, really. Till next time!
Topics: Education, Investing, Retirement |