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Title: Investing Without Wall Street
Subtitle: The Five Essentials of Financial Freedom
Author: Sheldon Jacobs
Narrator: Kevin Young
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-01-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Business, Personal Finance & Investing

Publisher's Summary:
In July of 1993, Sheldon Jacobs was one of five nationally recognized mutual fund advisors chosen by the New York Times for a mutual fund portfolio competition. The portfolio that he selected produced the highest return of all contestants for almost seven years, and the Times' quarterly publication of this contest helped him become one of the best-known mutual fund advisors in America.
Investing Without Wall Street shows investors how to achieve the greatest wealth with the least effort. It details the five essentials that even a kid could master and shows that they are all you need to be a successful investor. With this knowledge, the average investor can invest on his or her own and make $252,000 more than a person investing the same way who shares his or her profits with professionals. This book will teach you how.

Critic Reviews:
"Sheldon Jacobs is a level-headed gentleman who is a cross between Albert Einstein, the Dalai Lama, and Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and who had a solid record editing and publishing The No-Load Fund Investor financial newsletter for over a quarter-century." (MarketWatch)
"King of no-loads." (Investor's Business Daily)
"Dean of the no-load fund watchers." (USA Today)

Members Reviews:
Accessible introduction to arranging your own finances
I work in the financial sector and am often very concerned about friends and family who trust their money to others and don't seem to have a clue as to how their own investments work. I picked up this book in the hopes of finding something which would provide an accessible introduction to managing one's own finances. In this, it succeeds.
It's very difficult to find the right balance of technical and non-technical information when discussing personal finances. Some understanding of the technical aspects of finance are necessary in order to understand even the basics sensibly but many books go one bridge too far for the reader working outside the financial sector.
This books finds the right balance, and its five basics, I entirely agree with. It is consistent with many of the fresh insights into finance, off the back of the crisis, while at the same time remaining balanced and practical. It's emphasis on risk-adjusted returns is very important and one of the important things which non-financial people need to understand. Jacobs presents this concept is an accessible way.
Some of the later sections are redundant and don't add that much to the main argument of the book. Once you've read the chapters on the five essentials, you can probably put the book down. But those five essentials really are essential, and in this book, accessible. I have bought several copies of this book to distribute to non-financial members of the family over Christmas.

Provides a succinct, but incomplete, blueprint for basic investment planning
If you are interested in developing a simple, disciplined investment plan, the first 100 pages are a great read. Seasoned investors can learn a lot about keeping investments simple and sticking to an allocation plan, whereas inexperienced investors can gain insight into what to heed and what to ignore when investing without an adviser. Read on only if you are interested in market lore, myths, and other ludicrous indicators.