DIY investment - required reading list?

cfw1994

I'd echo the "Beyond the 4% Rule" by Abraham Okusanya & John Edwards. DIY pensions

I'd also suggest spending time listening to the videos on https://kroijer.com - easily digested, not too long, feel like decent advice to me for starters.

JohnWinder

If we're after free download useful books: Larymore, Lindauer and LeBoeuf's The Bogleheads Guide to Investing is available at archive.org.
Antti Ilmanen's Expected Returns, An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market rewards, is a bit intense but grist for the mill when the other grist is digested.
Bernstein’s Four Pillars of Investing seems to be available on several websites.
Frank Armstrong’s Investing Strategies for the 21st Century is a 24 chapter pdf well set out and readable in pdf.
Bodie and McLeavey’s The future of life cycle Saving and Investing from the CFA Institute puts his ‘guaranteed income’ plus investments spin on the subject.
Bogle’s The Little Book of common sense Investing is an easy, folksy read.
Rick Ferri’s Serious Money - Straight Talk about investing for retirement, used to be available with a 'free use' licence on the title page. Being 20 years old hasn’t made its insights out of date.
Siegel’s Stocks for the Long Run, is not for the faint hearted, and more background reading than implementable ‘what to do’s’.
And if you like a cut and dried engineering approach then Jim Otar’s 400 page Unveiling the Retirement Myth - Advanced Retirement Planning based on Market History is well set out and very readable.