Bogleheads® financial start-up kit

Welcome
Welcome to the Bogleheads Financial Start-Up Kit! First things first. Don't panic! There's a lot of information available to help. Take your time and get organized.

If you don't understand something, just ask in the Bogleheads' forum. No question is too simple. The Bogleheads' forum is ready to answer.

Overview
These start-up kits are nothing more than guides to all the resources available in the wiki and forum. Anything you need is just a mouse-click away.

A note about the wiki: The power of the wiki is its ability to link content. If a topic has a link, there's more material available. This is not a structured course. Use those links to explore anything you want.

Tip: Open those links in a new browser tab. It will help you keep track of where you started from as you surf through all those pages. Adding bookmarks will also work.

The start-up kits are grouped like the Category list shown on the bottom of the wiki main page. Feel free to explore there as well. Categories are groups of similar pages. Categories can contain sub-categories (refined page groupings) as well as pages within the categories. Take a look and see how they're organized. The sub-catgories are at the top, and pages within the category are at the bottom.

Personal Finance Start-Up Kit
Bogleheads Personal Finance Planning Start-Up Kit

Investing Start-Up Kit
Bogleheads Investing Start-Up Kit

Retirement Planning Start-Up Kit
Bogleheads Retirement Planning Start-Up Kit

Recommended References

 * Suggested Start-up books
 * Bogleheads' Recommended Investing Books - Forum recommendations for new investors
 * Additional recommended books and reviews - Wiki book listing with reviews
 * Bogleheads' Reference Library and Wiki - Forum archive of reference information