Investment Guide for beginning investors

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I found a link to a good beginning investing tutorial over on the Bogleheads site. It does assume you already know what a stock, a bond, and a mutual fund are (if you don't, start with a Dummies guide to investing first.) It's well written and a pretty fast read:

Investment Guide

Here's a link to a post about the Bogleheads investing philosophy. Basically they focus on low-cost index funds:
Bogleheads :: View topic - The Bogleheads' Philosophy - Back to Basics

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At the very end there is a list of books for further reading. Since that is often requested here, I thought I'd cut and paste...

Good First Books
"The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing" by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindaur and Michael LeBoeuf
"The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John Bogle
"All About Asset Allocation" by Rick Ferri
"The Coffeehouse Investor" by Bill Schultheis
"The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need" by Larry Swedroe
"The Informed Investor" by Frank Armstrong


Behavioral Finance
“Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes” by Belsky and Gilovich
Books with More Depth
“John Bogle on Mutual Funds” by John Bogle
“Common Sense on Mutual Funds” by John Bogle
“Four Pillars of Investing” by William Bernstein
“What Wall St. Doesn’t Want You to Know” by Larry Swedroe
“Random Walk Down Wall Street” by Burton Malkiel
“The Intelligent Asset Allocator” by William Bernstein


Online Books

“Investing for the 21st Century” by Frank Armstrong, Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive (R) -- Investment Strategies for the 21st Century

“Serious Money, Straight Talk About Investing for Retirement” by Rick Ferri, index funds and exchange-traded funds, ETFs: Low cost investment manager, Portfolio Solutions

For General Information on Investment Basics
Moneychimp: learn Stock Investing, Index Funds, Valuation Models, and more.
Welcome to Investopedia.com
Bogleheads Investing Advice and Info (general information, recommendations, discussions based on MPT)
The Coffeehouse Investor
Jason Zweig :: www.jasonzweig.com :: a safe haven for intelligent investors (articles)
Bogleheads

Advanced Information and articles on Investing
Australian Independent Financial Advisers Pty Ltd: Independent fee for service financial planners (many excellent articles)
Reading Room (many good articles)

For General Information on Mutual Funds
Bogleheads Investing Advice and Info (Reference Library)
Morningstar Stock, Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund, ETF Investment Research (fund information and leaning center)
T. Rowe Price
Vanguard - Mutual funds, IRAs, ETFs, 401(k) plans, and more

https://www.Fidelity.com

FundAlarm-Updated 1st of Each Month
IndexUniverse.com - News, data and research on ETFs, indexes and index funds

For Advanced Information on the portfolio selection method (modern portfolio theory)
Efficient Frontier (theory and practice)
www.homepage.mac.com/j.norstad/finance (academic articles)

For Information on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
IndexUniverse.com - News, data and research on ETFs, indexes and index funds
NASDAQ Stock Market - Stock Quotes - Stock Exchange News - NASDAQ.com
iShares ETFs - Exchange Traded Funds

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401khelpcenter.com - 401(k) and 403(b) Plan Sponsors, Small Business, Employee Retirement Plans (401k help)
irahelp.com Ed Slott America's IRA Expert (IRA help)
403(b)wise . The Leading Source of 403(b) Information on the Web

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