Investing can be overwhelming. In my journey, I found these books to guide my Boglehead investing strategy.
This blog post is the top 10 Boglehead books I used to craft my investment strategy including my key takeaways from each book.
I hope this helps to shortcut your path to Vanguard Boglehead investing.
#1: Bogleheads Guide to Investing
Bogleheads Guide to Investing is a foundational book to the Bogleheads community.
Key Takeways:
- I learned the Boglehead guiding principles covered in detail in this Blog
- The Boglehead 3 Fund Portfolio is the staple investment as it keeps investing simple, diversified, and low cost
- Jack Bogle founded Vanguard
- Bogleheads are a massive community including local community meetings
#2: Common Sense of Investing
Common Sense Investing is a foundational book to the Bogleheads community.
Key Takeways:
- I learned the Boglehead guiding principles covered in detail in this Blog
- The Boglehead 3 Fund Portfolio is the staple investment as it keeps investing simple, diversified, and low cost
- Jack Bogle founded Vanguard
- Bogleheads are a massive community including local community meetings
#3: The Intelligent Investor
Ben Graham was an early innovator of value investing, which included a great deal of research and data points on the stock market over time.
Key Takeways:
- The historical stock market increases over time
- Rebalancing portfolios is to reduce volatility
- Stocks will outperform bonds but be more volatile
#4: The Millionare Next Door
Millionare Next Door is an important foundational book for investors as it explains how to structure your finances from a young age.
Key Takeways:
- Structure your finances as a “pie chart” of savings, expenses, and disposable income
- Hit your savings targets, then expenses, then disposable income
- Spend your disposable income freely, but only after you hit your savings targets
