We're glad you want more, curiousity is a powerful virtue. There's so much more we wanted to add to the main site, but we forced restraint to keep things streamlined. Here, you're free to dive in as deep as you like. We've started collecting some of our favorite resources. We expect this list will grow over time.
Articles and blog posts
- "What
if You Only Invested at Market Peaks?"
Short powerful example of how holding long term works amazingly well (even if you buy at the worst times).
- "New
report finds almost 80% of active fund managers are falling behind the major
indexes"
Active managers (people who charge higher fees and try to "beat the market") have underperformed indexes for the last 12 years straight.
- "Dollar-Cost
Averaging vs. Lump-Sum Investing"
Northwestern Mutual research showing lump sum investing typically beats dollar cost averaging (especially over longer periods of time).
- "How Expense Ratios
and Star Ratings Predict Success"
Morningstar research showing fund expense ratio is the best prediction of future performance.
- "When
Can I Retire?"
Interesting calculator that shows the impact of savings rate on early retirment.
Books
- "Stocks for the Long
Run"
Thoroughly researched, in-depth look at how stocks have performed historicaly and why they're the best investment long term.
- "Fooled by
Randomness"
Explores how people deal (badly) with randomness, and how it dominates many parts of our lives.
- "Thinking Fast and
Slow"
Must-read for anyone who makes decisions regularly, focused on behavioral psychology but helps to show why people make bad investment decisions.
- "Noise: A Flaw in Human
Judgement"
A follow up to Thinking Fast and Slow, digs deeper into errors in how we make decisions.