4 Easy to Read Investing Books to Boost Your Financial Knowledge

Your Gateway books to Investing Knowledge

They are all very easy to read. 
I get it, most of you can't find the time to read at all. Juggling time, between work, kids, chores, bills, gym, who has time??
Guess what, they are available as audiobooks. 
Listen to them while 
-commuting to and from work 
-on the plane to your destination
-while working out
-while taking the dogs for a walk
-while on your lunch break
Imagine how much smarter your future self will become if you do these easy time hacks.

 

#1 The Intelligent Investor - Ben Graham

This is your gateway bible to investing. My favorite type, which is value and long-term investing. Don't fall prey to get rich quick b**sh*t. Nothing easily gained is worth it. 

Ben Graham is known as the grandfather of value investing. As you read this book, you will find that his principles are still applicable to our lives today. 

I find it helpful to actually own this book, because I come back and revisit sections.

#2 Your Money and your brain - Jason Zweig

This book is actually super interesting. I personally just listened to this while working out. There's a lot of academically smart people out there that make very poor financial decisions and this book explains it pretty well.

#3 The little book of Valuation - Aswath Damodaran

Aswath Damodaran is a finance professor at NYU. This is the first book I have read from him. Ever since, I have also listened to his lectures and read his other books. 
This book is a fast read compared to his other more in-depth finance books, but also very enjoyable to listen to. Reading this book will give you an "aha" moment. 

#4  The little book of Common Sense Investing - John "Jack" Bogle 

For most people, investing in a collection of stock and bonds wrap in a mutual fund portfolio is good enough. However, back then you would have to pay a pretty steep price to their managers. Consider the transaction costs, management fees, etc. If it wasn't for this guy, we would barely make a profit from out investments, after paying transaction costs, management fees, etc. 
He invented low cost investing, and because of him, there's now a myriad of great fund choices for the large group of retail investors.
This book is worth listening tom but it's also a super fast read.

A little secret about me, I used to hate reading. But after listening to so many audiobooks, I realized that it is very helpful to supplement my studies by actually reading.  It took me a while to get to this stage. So if you're like me, do not get discourage. It will happen, just give it time,
When you create excuses for not having time for education, it is because you already allocated that time for something else. 
Which one yields a higher return on your time investment? 
Remember: Your TIME is FINITE.
Which books did you end up reading? What did you learn from them?
Tell me about it in the comments!

That is all for now. 

See you on the next one!

-Pam

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