The Anxious Investor

Speaking as an avid finance reader, you are not going to find anything that is ground breaking. In fact, given the title, I expected more of a psychological take on the mind games that happen while investing. While the book did offer this to some extent (different heuristics) if felt that it was sorely lacking in terms of personality and how direct experiences could have shaped our decision making. Rather, it was focused on the pitfalls of the most notable stock market experiences that entire cohorts faced.

The majority of the book is more focused on the history of the stock market and bubbles. While these are important and are crafted fairly well, I think that it misses the mark for those that purchased this book on title alone. There was not enough discussion about global diversification, monte carlo simulations, or tax optimization.

Advice (And what you will find in most books of this nature) Invest in low cost well diversified index funds).