There are many excellent books to be recommended as follow-ups to this volume by such excellent sources as William Bernstein, Rick Ferri, Larry Swedroe, Daniel Solin, John Bogle, Burton Malkiel, and the "Bogleheads" amongst others but none of them are currently "free" afaik and therefore I have left them out of the discussion.
Truth is that someone with little knowledge of investing could do quite well for themselves over time with just the modicum of knowledge and effort that could be gleaned and used as impetus from reading "Investing Made Simple". You don't have to "beat" the market to have better than average results as an investor.
I don't think hashing out the minutiae of investing in this thread will provide a service to those whom this book will most benefit. Of course that's just my opinion. (And Doreen, you and I are on the same page. I'm only CFO of my own family's finances but having retired at age 50 I'm not complaining.
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