If You Can

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• cesarbs · Aug 27, 2016 · Recommends

  …the-best-time-to-invest-is-tomorrow-so-just-do-it answer. There are a number of things you should do if you want to learn more about how to invest your money in stocks (and maybe bonds): 0) A good resource to get started quickly is If You Can, by William Bernstein: https://smile.amazon.com/If-You-Can-Millennials-Slowly-ebook... But you can skip it if you want to dive deeper with the stuff that follows. 1) Learn about what investing in the…

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• thegooodness · May 2, 2020 · Recommends

  If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly By William Bernstein

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• asr · Jan 17, 2019 · Recommends

  …Pillars of Investing. Bernstein's books are all more or less re-writes of the same book multiple times in an attempt to make the Bogle/indexing idea approachable for different audiences. In addition to If You Can, Chapter 1 of Four Pillars is a history of securities returns and is the best thing I've ever read in terms of getting into the right head-space for long-term investing and thinking about risk. http://www.efficientfrontier.com/t4poi/Ch1.htm…

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• loteck · Sep 16, 2016 · Recommends

  Read Goldstein's (edit: Bernstein's!) book "If You Can". It's a whopping 16 page book of plain talk and he made it free on the internet, no strings. [1] It's the best introduction to planning for retirement, especially for those under 35, I've read so far. [1] https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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• saryant · Jan 3, 2017 · Recommends

  Is it really unreasonable for someone to read something like Bernstein's "If You Can"? It takes an hour. https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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• loteck · Jan 16, 2019 · Recommends

  If you don't know who Bogle is, and don't know much about individual investing for retirement, I would recommend you read William Bernstein's If You Can, a (free!) little 16-page booklet that just lays out the "Bogle method" for simple investing for retirement. [0] https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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• anotherman554 · Dec 18, 2019 · Recommends

  "If You Can" by William Bernstein is a free, meant-to-be simple primer on investing aimed at Millennials: https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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• throwaheyy · Nov 19, 2022 · Recommends

  I recommend “If You Can”. It’s an short, accessible and entertaining guide to self-managed passive investing targeted to millennials. https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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• fantispug · Feb 10, 2018 · Recommends

  "If You Can" by William J Bernstein. It gives a simple conservative investing strategy, and refers to other great books for the details. Available here: https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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• fsflyer · Apr 15, 2024 · Recommends

  More of a pamphlet than a book, I give it to all the college graduates in the family. https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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