Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom, by Ben Carlson and Robin Powell, sets out to simplify the complex world of personal finance – and achieves this goal.

The authors focus on the value of time, and stress the importance of savings over specific investment strategy. It covers the basics of investing – financial planning, asset allocation, tax incentives – but always comes back to the central themes of time and savings. These are important messages to get into the hands of people early in their careers.

The language is non-technical, and the book is brimming with simple rules of thumb to help the reader build a coherent picture of their own financial path and destination, and the choices and compromises they face along the way.

The underlying “get rich slowly” message resonates with advice from Warren Buffet, from Lord Lee and from many successful investors, and is delivered in a though-provoking way with the intention of promoting better financial habits.

I wish I had read Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom in my early 20s. It would have saved me from some big mistakes.

Carlson and Powell bring a great deal of expertise to the table in this readable, enjoyable and useful handbook. Drawing from their careers and personal experience they present some cogent advice for how to begin and continue a path to financial independence. In 22 short chapters this book lays out a plan that anyone can follow. Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom earns our high recommendation.

Carlson and Powell have shown an extraordinary ability to summarise the key concepts of personal finance in a clear and simple way. With numerical examples within everyone’s reach, this book answers questions on why, how, when, how much you should save and invest — and which tools to use. It is both enjoyable and educational.

This is one of the books I wished had been given to me when I was starting my first full-time job. I would have avoided a whole lot of expensive financial mistakes I made early on in my career.

At last! A one-stop guide for UK savers that shows just how simple sensible investing can be – but is no simpler than it should be.

The lack of financial education at school, combined with the British taboo on discussing monetary matters, can lead to an information vacuum. That space is ripe to be filled with the empty, baseless advice of shills, charlatans and ‘finfluencers’. Everyone beginning to explore their financial self could benefit from filling said void with the truths found in this simple guide instead.

Ben Carlson and Robin Powell’s new book, Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom offers a clear path to building wealth that everyone should have learned in school (but didn’t). I highly recommend this clearly written guide.

Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom is an essential read for anyone starting out their investment journey; informative, well-written and easy to understand.

This is the sort of well-written book I wished someone had given to me as a teenager to avoid some of those expensive and painful ‘learning by doing’ financial mistakes that many of us make early on.