Recommended books on investing?

Thrugelmir

ChilliBob said:

Interesting thread, I've considered the Tim Hale one a few times, does it differ much from Lars' Investing Demystified? I read a recent revie suggesting Hale's book could do with an update, but it might just be one semi disgruntled review. 

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham was first published in 1949. Still as relevant now as it was back then. Though will appear extremely dated to read!

Michael121

Thrugelmir said:

To quote Warren Buffett,     "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians".

An excellent book to start with , that you can dip in and out of is 

HARRIMAN'S NEW BOOK OF INVESTING RULES

The do’s and don’ts of the world’s best investors

Contrasting views from across the investment world spectrum. Will enable you to start to formulate your own strategy.  Here's the contents. 

Frank Armstrong - Investing from the Cockpit
Glen Arnold - Investing Tenets of the Private Investor Who Trained the Professionals
Martin Bamford - Britain's Bestselling Financial Planner on Dealing with Risk and Reward
John Baron - Insights of an Investment Trust Expert
Andy Bell - How to Be a Successful DIY Investor
Alistair Blair - Eleven Quick Tips for Time-Limited Private Investors
Michael van Biema - Concentrated Value Investing in Six Simple Steps
John C. Bogle - Investing Insights of the $4 Trillion Man
Anthony Bolton - Long-Term Lessons from a Legendary Run
Jeroen Bos - How to Go Deep Value Diving for Bargain Shares
Jonathan Boyar - Patience Makes Perfect
Ashton Bradbury - Go Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Better Investing Outcomes
Kathleen Brooks - Five FX Fixes to Trade Like the Best
Mike Brooks - How to Be Genuinely Diversified
David Buik - Reflections on a Life in the City
Robbie Burns - The Naked Trader Laid Bare
Richard Buxton - The Hard But Rewarding Art of Investing
Tobias Carlisle - Zig When the Investing Crowd Zags
Robert Carver - How to Invest Systematically
Jonathan Clements - Nine Ways to Think Differently About Money
Michael Covel - Ten Tenets of a Trend Follower
Andrew Craig - How to Invest So That Crashes Don't Matter
Sandy Cross - Six Tips for Talent-Spotting Active Fund Managers
Lawrence A. Cunningham - Warren Buffett's Investing Rules
Job Curtis - Successful Equity Income Investing
Mark Dampier - Investing, Warts and All
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - Five Factors that Influence Investment Returns
Stephen Eckett - How to Profit from Stock Market Anomalies
Alexander Elder - Comments on Futures
Scott Fearon - Stock Picking 101
Ken Fisher - Invest By Knowing What Others Don't
Anthony Garner - How to use ETF Trading Systems to Outperform the Experts
Wesley Gray and Jack Vogel - Axioms of the Alpha Architects
Tren Griffin - Charlie Munger's Investing Rules
Robin Griffiths - Rules Beat Judgement: Trend Following With Technical Analysis
Tim Hale - Four Simple Steps to Smarter Investing
Ian Heslop - Five Bright Ideas for Taking the Bias out of Investment
Andrew Hunt - Two Mice Fell in a Bucket of Cream - The Art of Contrarian Value Investing
James Inglis-Jones - How Practising Your Process Makes Perfect
Niels Jensen - Absolute Returns and the End of Indexing
John Kingham - Dictums of a Defensive Value Investor
Lars Kroijer - How to Invest Without Speculation or Sleepless Nights
John Lee - Twelve Golden Rules for Making a Million - Slowly
Nick Louth - Make Meaningful Returns with the Help of a Marvellous Mathematical Principle
Yoram Lustig - Eight Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Investing
Chris Mayer - Four Simple Things You Should Do to Succeed in the Stock Market
Tim Morgan - Risk and Return in an Age of Abnormality
Charlie Morris - Everything is Connected: An Investor's Guide
Ned Naylor-Leyland - The Wheel of History - and a Golden Future
Matthew Partridge - What I Learned From Studying the Greatest Investors in History
Jacob Rees-Mogg - Investing in Emerging Markets with Veins of Ice and Nerves of Steel
David Schneider - Before You Invest in Businesses, Start a Business
Edmund Shing - Know Thyself! And Pick a System to Suit You
Peter Spiller - In Investing, Only the Short Term is Random
Greg Steinmetz - Value Investing in the Age of Leonardo
Tom Stevenson - Don't Lose Money - It's Hard to Replace
Van K. Tharp - You Don't Trade the Markets: You Trade Your Beliefs About Them
Nick Train - The Seven Pillars of Investing Wisdom
Eoin Treacy - Investing in Explosions Waiting to Happen
Pertti Vanhanen - Nine Home Truths of Property Investing
Edgar Wachenheim - Learn to Love Common Stocks
Todd Wenning - How to Keep Your Dividend Edge
Gervais Williams - Make the Most of the Market Environment
Craig Yeaman - Good Ideas Are Finite

I read the top book in bold on your recommendation, just finished that actually. Really good book, i have found with some books they tend to bang on about the same thing all the way through and it gets quite boring but this one was fresh throughout.

loutus_flower

Thrugelmir said:

To quote Warren Buffett,     "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians".

An excellent book to start with , that you can dip in and out of is 

HARRIMAN'S NEW BOOK OF INVESTING RULES

The do’s and don’ts of the world’s best investors

Contrasting views from across the investment world spectrum. Will enable you to start to formulate your own strategy.  Here's the contents. 

Frank Armstrong - Investing from the Cockpit
Glen Arnold - Investing Tenets of the Private Investor Who Trained the Professionals
Martin Bamford - Britain's Bestselling Financial Planner on Dealing with Risk and Reward
John Baron - Insights of an Investment Trust Expert
Andy Bell - How to Be a Successful DIY Investor
Alistair Blair - Eleven Quick Tips for Time-Limited Private Investors
Michael van Biema - Concentrated Value Investing in Six Simple Steps
John C. Bogle - Investing Insights of the $4 Trillion Man
Anthony Bolton - Long-Term Lessons from a Legendary Run
Jeroen Bos - How to Go Deep Value Diving for Bargain Shares
Jonathan Boyar - Patience Makes Perfect
Ashton Bradbury - Go Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Better Investing Outcomes
Kathleen Brooks - Five FX Fixes to Trade Like the Best
Mike Brooks - How to Be Genuinely Diversified
David Buik - Reflections on a Life in the City
Robbie Burns - The Naked Trader Laid Bare
Richard Buxton - The Hard But Rewarding Art of Investing
Tobias Carlisle - Zig When the Investing Crowd Zags
Robert Carver - How to Invest Systematically
Jonathan Clements - Nine Ways to Think Differently About Money
Michael Covel - Ten Tenets of a Trend Follower
Andrew Craig - How to Invest So That Crashes Don't Matter
Sandy Cross - Six Tips for Talent-Spotting Active Fund Managers
Lawrence A. Cunningham - Warren Buffett's Investing Rules
Job Curtis - Successful Equity Income Investing
Mark Dampier - Investing, Warts and All
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - Five Factors that Influence Investment Returns
Stephen Eckett - How to Profit from Stock Market Anomalies
Alexander Elder - Comments on Futures
Scott Fearon - Stock Picking 101
Ken Fisher - Invest By Knowing What Others Don't
Anthony Garner - How to use ETF Trading Systems to Outperform the Experts
Wesley Gray and Jack Vogel - Axioms of the Alpha Architects
Tren Griffin - Charlie Munger's Investing Rules
Robin Griffiths - Rules Beat Judgement: Trend Following With Technical Analysis
Tim Hale - Four Simple Steps to Smarter Investing
Ian Heslop - Five Bright Ideas for Taking the Bias out of Investment
Andrew Hunt - Two Mice Fell in a Bucket of Cream - The Art of Contrarian Value Investing
James Inglis-Jones - How Practising Your Process Makes Perfect
Niels Jensen - Absolute Returns and the End of Indexing
John Kingham - Dictums of a Defensive Value Investor
Lars Kroijer - How to Invest Without Speculation or Sleepless Nights
John Lee - Twelve Golden Rules for Making a Million - Slowly
Nick Louth - Make Meaningful Returns with the Help of a Marvellous Mathematical Principle
Yoram Lustig - Eight Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Investing
Chris Mayer - Four Simple Things You Should Do to Succeed in the Stock Market
Tim Morgan - Risk and Return in an Age of Abnormality
Charlie Morris - Everything is Connected: An Investor's Guide
Ned Naylor-Leyland - The Wheel of History - and a Golden Future
Matthew Partridge - What I Learned From Studying the Greatest Investors in History
Jacob Rees-Mogg - Investing in Emerging Markets with Veins of Ice and Nerves of Steel
David Schneider - Before You Invest in Businesses, Start a Business
Edmund Shing - Know Thyself! And Pick a System to Suit You
Peter Spiller - In Investing, Only the Short Term is Random
Greg Steinmetz - Value Investing in the Age of Leonardo
Tom Stevenson - Don't Lose Money - It's Hard to Replace
Van K. Tharp - You Don't Trade the Markets: You Trade Your Beliefs About Them
Nick Train - The Seven Pillars of Investing Wisdom
Eoin Treacy - Investing in Explosions Waiting to Happen
Pertti Vanhanen - Nine Home Truths of Property Investing
Edgar Wachenheim - Learn to Love Common Stocks
Todd Wenning - How to Keep Your Dividend Edge
Gervais Williams - Make the Most of the Market Environment
Craig Yeaman - Good Ideas Are Finite

I have the book its a good read. However very heavy.  Another good boot is the FT guide to ETFs by David Stevenson,  Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, The psychology of Money - Morgan Housel,  One up on wall street - Peter lynch

ChilliBob

Thrugelmir said:

ChilliBob said:

Interesting thread, I've considered the Tim Hale one a few times, does it differ much from Lars' Investing Demystified? I read a recent revie suggesting Hale's book could do with an update, but it might just be one semi disgruntled review. 

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham was first published in 1949. Still as relevant now as it was back then. Though will appear extremely dated to read!

I thought someone would chip in with something like that! The impression I got was some of the book was more topical for the time it was written. Obviously having not read it I can't comment ln how reliable that opinion was.

Thrugelmir

loutus_flower said:

Thrugelmir said:

To quote Warren Buffett,     "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians".

An excellent book to start with , that you can dip in and out of is 

HARRIMAN'S NEW BOOK OF INVESTING RULES

The do’s and don’ts of the world’s best investors

Contrasting views from across the investment world spectrum. Will enable you to start to formulate your own strategy.  Here's the contents. 

Frank Armstrong - Investing from the Cockpit
Glen Arnold - Investing Tenets of the Private Investor Who Trained the Professionals
Martin Bamford - Britain's Bestselling Financial Planner on Dealing with Risk and Reward
John Baron - Insights of an Investment Trust Expert
Andy Bell - How to Be a Successful DIY Investor
Alistair Blair - Eleven Quick Tips for Time-Limited Private Investors
Michael van Biema - Concentrated Value Investing in Six Simple Steps
John C. Bogle - Investing Insights of the $4 Trillion Man
Anthony Bolton - Long-Term Lessons from a Legendary Run
Jeroen Bos - How to Go Deep Value Diving for Bargain Shares
Jonathan Boyar - Patience Makes Perfect
Ashton Bradbury - Go Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Better Investing Outcomes
Kathleen Brooks - Five FX Fixes to Trade Like the Best
Mike Brooks - How to Be Genuinely Diversified
David Buik - Reflections on a Life in the City
Robbie Burns - The Naked Trader Laid Bare
Richard Buxton - The Hard But Rewarding Art of Investing
Tobias Carlisle - Zig When the Investing Crowd Zags
Robert Carver - How to Invest Systematically
Jonathan Clements - Nine Ways to Think Differently About Money
Michael Covel - Ten Tenets of a Trend Follower
Andrew Craig - How to Invest So That Crashes Don't Matter
Sandy Cross - Six Tips for Talent-Spotting Active Fund Managers
Lawrence A. Cunningham - Warren Buffett's Investing Rules
Job Curtis - Successful Equity Income Investing
Mark Dampier - Investing, Warts and All
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - Five Factors that Influence Investment Returns
Stephen Eckett - How to Profit from Stock Market Anomalies
Alexander Elder - Comments on Futures
Scott Fearon - Stock Picking 101
Ken Fisher - Invest By Knowing What Others Don't
Anthony Garner - How to use ETF Trading Systems to Outperform the Experts
Wesley Gray and Jack Vogel - Axioms of the Alpha Architects
Tren Griffin - Charlie Munger's Investing Rules
Robin Griffiths - Rules Beat Judgement: Trend Following With Technical Analysis
Tim Hale - Four Simple Steps to Smarter Investing
Ian Heslop - Five Bright Ideas for Taking the Bias out of Investment
Andrew Hunt - Two Mice Fell in a Bucket of Cream - The Art of Contrarian Value Investing
James Inglis-Jones - How Practising Your Process Makes Perfect
Niels Jensen - Absolute Returns and the End of Indexing
John Kingham - Dictums of a Defensive Value Investor
Lars Kroijer - How to Invest Without Speculation or Sleepless Nights
John Lee - Twelve Golden Rules for Making a Million - Slowly
Nick Louth - Make Meaningful Returns with the Help of a Marvellous Mathematical Principle
Yoram Lustig - Eight Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Investing
Chris Mayer - Four Simple Things You Should Do to Succeed in the Stock Market
Tim Morgan - Risk and Return in an Age of Abnormality
Charlie Morris - Everything is Connected: An Investor's Guide
Ned Naylor-Leyland - The Wheel of History - and a Golden Future
Matthew Partridge - What I Learned From Studying the Greatest Investors in History
Jacob Rees-Mogg - Investing in Emerging Markets with Veins of Ice and Nerves of Steel
David Schneider - Before You Invest in Businesses, Start a Business
Edmund Shing - Know Thyself! And Pick a System to Suit You
Peter Spiller - In Investing, Only the Short Term is Random
Greg Steinmetz - Value Investing in the Age of Leonardo
Tom Stevenson - Don't Lose Money - It's Hard to Replace
Van K. Tharp - You Don't Trade the Markets: You Trade Your Beliefs About Them
Nick Train - The Seven Pillars of Investing Wisdom
Eoin Treacy - Investing in Explosions Waiting to Happen
Pertti Vanhanen - Nine Home Truths of Property Investing
Edgar Wachenheim - Learn to Love Common Stocks
Todd Wenning - How to Keep Your Dividend Edge
Gervais Williams - Make the Most of the Market Environment
Craig Yeaman - Good Ideas Are Finite

I have the book its a good read. However very heavy. 

If you think this one is a heavy read. Try this for size.

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff 

Contains an insane amount of data to back up their view. That history does, and will continue to repeat itself. 

EdSwippet

loutus_flower said:
I have the book its a good read. However very heavy.  Another good book is the FT guide to ETFs by David Stevenson,  Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, The psychology of Money - Morgan Housel,  One up on wall street - Peter lynch

No quibble on the others, or anything else mentioned in this thread, but Rich Dad, Poor Dad is junk.

Alistair31

EdSwippet said:

loutus_flower said:
I have the book its a good read. However very heavy.  Another good book is the FT guide to ETFs by David Stevenson,  Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, The psychology of Money - Morgan Housel,  One up on wall street - Peter lynch

No quibble on the others, or anything else mentioned in this thread, but Rich Dad, Poor Dad is junk.

Tend to agree. He must have made a fortune from it, though. 

Thrugelmir

If there's an interest in stock picking and one is unsure where to start. Then this is worth a read. Doesn't explain how to build a portfolio but starts you in the right direction and may avoid too many expensive mistakes. An easy read. 

The Smart Money Method: How to pick stocks like a hedge fund pro 

by Stephen Clapham

snooloui

EdSwippet said:

loutus_flower said:
I have the book its a good read. However very heavy.  Another good book is the FT guide to ETFs by David Stevenson,  Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, The psychology of Money - Morgan Housel,  One up on wall street - Peter lynch

No quibble on the others, or anything else mentioned in this thread, but Rich Dad, Poor Dad is junk.

I suppose if it inspires a person to challenge their life, then it has some value but otherwise yes it is mostly nonsense.

loutus_flower

snooloui said:

EdSwippet said:

loutus_flower said:
I have the book its a good read. However very heavy.  Another good book is the FT guide to ETFs by David Stevenson,  Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, The psychology of Money - Morgan Housel,  One up on wall street - Peter lynch

No quibble on the others, or anything else mentioned in this thread, but Rich Dad, Poor Dad is junk.

I suppose if it inspires a person to challenge their life, then it has some value but otherwise yes it is mostly nonsense.

My mate who came to UK  from Poland with only £200  in his pocket a decade ago. He now owns 10 investment properties because he was inspired by that book.  You can find value in anything...even things some people consider 'junk'.  Some people may not like Rich Dad poor, Poor Dad, that's ok...not everything is for everybody.  However,  it has changed people's lives.