Invest Like a Couch Potato: Achieve Financial Security and Lifetime Freedom with Ease - Hardcover

by Scott Burns (Author)

Simple investment strategies to recapture your time and foster financial independence

Concise and practical, Invest Like A Couch Potato is an invaluable guide to personal finance and freedom covering a wide range of subjects, from the basic principles of accumulating wealth to developing a mindset free from the pervasive influence of financial propaganda. Written by author Scott Burns, one of the most prolific and insightful personal finance and investing writers in the country, this book does not try to make you the richest man or woman in the world in dollar terms but rather enables you to recapture your time on this planet--the ultimate currency we should be focused on.

Supported by hard data, additional resources through Scott's website, and tools like the Couch Potato portfolio cookbook, this book explores topics including:

• Investment Strategies: ETFs, low-cost compounding, and the simplicity of the Couch Potato portfolio. (If you can fog a mirror, you can do it!)
• Reports and Rewards: Retirement cash balances, accumulation differences, and the simplicity of superior financial management.
• Moneyporn: The seductive yet misleading aspects of financial media and temporary heroes in finance.
• The Big Kahuna: Shelter, borrowing, and health as critical components of financial planning and wellbeing in all dimensions.

Invest Like a Couch Potato is the perfect guide for readers seeking to take control of their financial destiny by simplifying investment strategies and fostering a resilient, independent mindset.

Front Jacket

Are you overwhelmed by conflicting investment advice and financial media noise? Do you feel trapped in a system that demands constant attention to your portfolio while offering inconsistent and inadequate returns that get eaten by high fees? For millions of individual investors doing their best to build financial security, available "solutions" tend to generate a seemingly endless amount of questions, anxiety, and complications.

In Invest Like a Couch Potato: Achieve Financial Security and Lifetime Freedom with Ease, Scott Burns--personal finance writer and creator of Couch Potato investing--offers hands-on solutions to the problems posed by contemporary investing for everyday people. Drawing on the experience he gained as a co-founder of AssetBuilder, Burns brings proven expertise to helping readers achieve financial independence through radically simple strategies. This book doesn't promise to make you the richest person in the world. It focuses on recapturing and maximizing your time--the ultimate currency we should all prioritize.

Through 29 concise, actionable chapters, the author covers everything from the basic principles of wealth accumulation to developing a mindset free from financial propaganda and "moneyporn." The book features practical tools including a Couch Potato portfolio cookbook, guidance on ETF investing and low-cost compounding, and advice on choosing the right investment accounts with major brokers. Burns provides data-supported strategies on critical financial components including shelter, borrowing, and health, while showing readers how to resist misleading financial media. With additional resources available on his website, Invest Like a Couch Potato provides an approach that's both comprehensive and refreshingly simple.

Perfect for individual investors seeking to take control of their financial destiny without complexity or stress, Invest Like a Couch Potato offers a clear path to financial freedom. It's a can't-miss guide to reclaiming your time, simplifying your investments, and building lasting wealth with minimal effort.

Back Jacket

Praise for INVEST LIKE A COUCH POTATO

"Scott Burns has produced an engaging journey through the intricacies of investing for and during retirement. His advocacy of the 'Couch Potato' investing style--using a small number of low-cost, well-diversified index funds--is a pragmatic and effective solution for any retiree. Savor this book's clear writing style and pithy wisdom."
--WILLIAM P. BENGEN, author of A Richer Retirement: Supercharging the 4% Rule to Spend More and Enjoy More

"For a third of a century, Scott Burns's Couch Potato Portfolio has provided his lucky readers with a smooth and effortless ride to easy street. If you missed it the first time around, or if you need a refresher, then you won't do better than Invest Like a Couch Potato: Read, enjoy, and prosper."
--WILLIAM J. BERNSTEIN, bestselling author of The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

"Invest Like a Couch Potato packs enough wisdom, humility, clarity and humor to be the best personal finance book of the decade!"
--ANDREW HALLAM, international bestselling author of Millionaire Teacher, Millionaire Expat and Balance

"Scott Burns is America's deeply beloved financial therapist. He's spent decades protecting millions of us from two terrible dangers--our impulses and Wall Street's con jobs. Invest Like a Couch Potato is classic Burns--a brilliant, less-is-more, commonsense path to financial well-being and peace of mind. It's a must-read--for you and everyone you love."
--LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF, Boston University Professor of Economics and New York Times bestselling personal finance author

"A remarkably clear and insightful guide to money--and to securing the freedom to live life on your own terms. A brilliantly crafted and genuinely enjoyable read."
--ALLAN ROTH, financial planner, columnist, and author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

"With the insight of a seasoned columnist and the tone of a trusted friend, Scott Burns demonstrates how surprisingly little effort is required to invest well. His Couch Potato method has eased the worries of thousands, and it can help you feel more relaxed and confident about your future."
--DAN SOLIN, author of the Smartest series

Author Biography

SCOTT BURNS is the creator of Couch Potato investing, which advocates for the use of index funds over managed funds or stock picking. As a syndicated newspaper columnist and author, he has covered personal finance, investments, and economics for more than 40 years.