Book on investments

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Can anyone recommend some good books to read about investing and investment strategies? This is so far my weak knowledge area. Because of this I'm kind of minded to put all or most of my money into high equity tracker funds when I stop working (as a couple we have a pretty good underpin of guaranteed DB and SP income).
However I think it would still be useful for me to have more knowledge about investments generally - I know what equities, bonds etc means generally, but I see a lot of things talked about on forums like this that I am clueless about like "wealth protection fund" and "investment ladders" and so on. This could be useful background for me once I am winding down my working.
The most obvious first one that comes up is "investing for dummies" - of course there is literally that book, but I don't know if it would be too simple for my needs.
However I think it would still be useful for me to have more knowledge about investments generally - I know what equities, bonds etc means generally, but I see a lot of things talked about on forums like this that I am clueless about like "wealth protection fund" and "investment ladders" and so on. This could be useful background for me once I am winding down my working.
The most obvious first one that comes up is "investing for dummies" - of course there is literally that book, but I don't know if it would be too simple for my needs.
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Again good content
Bond ladder.
Creating A Bond Ladder For Passive Income - YouTube
PensionCraft - YouTube
PensionCraft
Wealth preservation IT's and UK inflation . Most posters will point to CGT and PNL
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Capital Gearing Trust
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A number of good YouTube channels including:
Meaningful Money
Damien Talks Money
James Shack
Also use the MSE Savings and Investments forum. Some great advice and advisors on there.
Rational Expectations (Bernstein) - for asset allocation discussion
Random Walk down Wallstreet (Malkiel) - more general introduction
Living off your money (McClung) - very drawdown deaccumulation methods focused but inevitably covers a lot of similar ground. Very detailed and backtesting and market simulation focused.
I think it is generally helpful to read up from a range of different perspectives around the major ideas. One of the merits of this forum is the contrasting investment philosophies and perspectives of regular posters.
Passive investing (Bogleheads, Monevator low cost index investing picks, Lars Kroijer on youtube)
Golden butterfly/permanent portfolio articles (nothing specific springs to mind)
Haven't read much on wealth preservation funds other than debates here about RIT, PNL, CGT etc.
Bond ladders of individual bonds are a bit more of a faff than routine fund and ETF investment.
And yet for the "hold to term" purpose they are proposed there is no easy fund based alternative that actually behaves the same.
It is (somewhat) a minority interest for DIY drawdown coverage so resources about it do seem to be quite limited.
For bonds more generally there is a fair amount of content around on interest rate sensitivity and yield to maturity and how bonds are described.
I put up a list of books, most of which have also turned up as free online versions, all decent which you can scan, browse or read for free as needed. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79637394#Comment_79637394
However, my experience is that you won’t find much about wealth preservation funds and laddering assets in any book; but you’re probably clued up enough to evaluate and manage those things yourself.
Marven Appel wrote a chapter for a book, on bond laddering which is not rocket science if know your way around a spreadsheet. Images of his spreadsheets you can see online. The bogleheads wiki has bond laddering.
The quickest and best way to find out what it means is probably to ask the MSE forum. I won't say "just Google it" because for a question like "what is a wealth preservation fund", Google is likely to return a load of marketing guff that will leave you with more questions than answers, much of it irrelevant (and often US-based).
Books wise there's already been plenty of good ones mentioned above. I'd add to those:
Lars Kroijer - Investing Demystified
Morgan Housel - The psychology of money (not strictly an investing book)
Very much of the passive persuasion.
This week’s FT ‘money clinic’ podcast by Claer Barrett with Jonathan Hollow and Robin Powell (new book) is well worth a listen too.
I also quite liked the audiobook version of the Morgan Housel book - mentioned above by Anon.
Another interesting website not much mentioned here is occaminvesting.co.uk - some very deep dive stuff but also covers the basics. Again, mostly passive in general and vanguard in particular.