The Financial times guide to investing : the definitive companion to investment and the financial markets / / Glen Arnold

• Autore: Arnold Glen
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Pearson, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 v.) : ill
• Disciplina: 332.6
• Soggetto topico: Investments
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- What's new in the third edition -- Introduction -- Part 1: Investment basics -- Chapter 1: What is investment? -- Partnerships -- Limited liability -- Ordinary shares and extraordinary returns -- Shareholder rights -- A money-making machine -- Dividends and retained earnings -- What if I want to sell? -- Primary and secondary markets -- Bonds -- Capital structure -- Stocks and shares -- Rights issues -- Financial institutions -- Be proud to be a capitalist! -- A note of warning - investment and speculation -- Chapter 2: The rewards of investment -- Becoming a millionaire -- Simple and compound interest -- How well have investors fared in the past? -- The importance of income -- International comparison -- Equities versus gilts -- What about risk? -- Closing comment -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Stock markets -- What is a stock market? -- Brokers and market makers -- Pricing - good old supply and demand -- A short history of the London Stock Exchange -- 'Big Bang' -- The international scene -- Variety of securities traded -- LSE's primary market -- The secondary market -- The Main Market (The Official List) -- The Alternative Investment Market -- techMARK and techMARK mediscience -- ICAP Securities & Derivatives Exchange (ISDX) -- Who owns UK shares? -- The role of stock exchanges -- Useful websites -- Chapter 4: Buying and selling shares -- Stockbroker services -- Choosing a stockbroker -- Finding prices and other information -- Getting the most out of financial websites -- What happens when I buy or sell shares? -- An alternative mechanism -- A third trading system - SETSqx -- What happens after dealing? -- Ways of paying for your shares -- Internet dealing -- Direct market access -- Transferring shares without brokers -- Useful websites. ; Part 2: The investment spectrum -- Chapter 5: Pooled investments -- Unit trusts -- Open-ended investment companies (OEICs) -- Exchange traded funds (ETFs) -- Investment trusts (investment companies) -- Investment platforms/supermarkets -- With-profits policies -- Insurance company bonds -- Stock-market-linked bonds -- Money markets -- Hedge funds -- Bringing home the significance of high fees -- Chapter 6: Bonds -- Gilts -- Corporate bonds -- Credit rating -- High-yield (junk) bonds -- Convertible bonds -- Foreign bonds -- Eurobonds -- Chapter 7: Unusual share investments -- Business angels (informal venture capitalists) -- Venture capital and other private equity -- Private equity categories -- Overseas shares -- Preference shares -- Chapter 8: Options -- What is a derivative? -- What is an option? -- Share options -- Call option holders (call option buyers) -- Call option writers -- An example of an option writing strategy -- LIFFE share options -- Put options -- How to trade options -- Using share options to reduce risk: hedging -- Using options to reduce losses -- Index options -- Further reading -- Websites -- Chapter 9: Futures -- Marking to market and margins -- Settlement -- Equity index futures -- Buying and selling futures -- Chapter 10: Spread betting, contracts for difference and warrants -- Spread betting -- Contracts for difference -- Warrants -- Covered warrants -- Further reading -- Websites -- Part 3: Company analysis -- Chapter 11: Company accounts -- Oh no! Not numbers again! -- How to obtain reports -- The report and accounts -- Profit and loss account -- Balance sheet (statement of financial position) -- Cash flow statement -- Chairman's statement -- Chief executive's review -- Financial review -- Directors' report and business review -- Auditors' report -- Five-year summary -- Trading statements -- Further reading. ; Chapter 12: Key investment ratios and measures -- From the financial pages -- Performance ratios and measures -- Financial health ratios and measures -- Forward-looking measures -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Tricks of the accounting trade -- Goodwill -- Fair value -- What was our revenue again? -- Exceptional items -- Stock (inventory) valuation -- Depreciation -- Capitalisation -- Off-balance-sheet items -- Share (stock) options -- Missing the profits and assets in investee companies -- Other tricks -- Concluding comments -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: Analysing industries -- The competitive floor -- The five competitive forces -- Threat of entry -- Intensity of rivalry of existing companies -- The threat from substitutes -- Buyer (customer) power -- Supplier power -- Industry evolution -- Concluding comments -- Further reading -- Chapter 15: The competitive position of the firm -- The TRRACK system -- What makes resources extraordinary? -- Investment in resources -- Leveraging resources and over-exploiting them -- Concluding comments -- Further reading -- Part 4: Managing your portfolio -- Chapter 16: Companies issuing shares -- New issues -- Rights issues -- Other equity issues -- Scrip issues -- Share buy-backs and special dividends -- Chapter 17: Taxation and investors -- Stamp duty -- Tax on dividends -- Capital gains tax -- Interest-bearing instruments -- Inheritance tax -- Individual savings accounts -- Personal pensions -- Enterprise Investment Scheme -- Venture capital trusts -- Tax-efficient charitable gifts -- Chapter 18: Mergers and takeovers -- Merger motives -- Financing mergers -- The rules of the takeover game -- Who wins from mergers? -- Final comment: why do mergers fail? -- Further reading -- Chapter 19: Investor protection -- Protecting investors from wayward financial services professionals -- Regulation of markets. ; Regulation of companies -- Self-protection -- Scams -- Chapter 20: Measuring performance: indices and risk -- Indices -- Risk -- Websites -- Further reading -- Chapter 21: Investment clubs -- How to set up a club -- The unit valuation system -- Bank account -- Brokers -- Tax -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'The most damaging half truth for savers is “performance matters more than expenses”. Read this book carefully and the financial services industry will have one fewer easy victim, but you will have a sound base for a lifetime of successful investment.' Martin White, Chair of UK Shareholders Association This is one of those great big books to buy and then tuck away for constant reference. It's a tour through everything from managing a portfolio to establishing a fair intrinsic value for a share. If it moves in the world of investing, it’s probably here.' David Stevenson, 'Adventurous Investor' in the Financial Times ‘ Informative and easy to read, Glen Arnold has produced arguably the most comprehensive book there is today on stock market investing and one that unquestionably will give an edge to any retail investor. This is a must read for anyone serious about investing.' Simon Thompson, Companies Editor, Investors Chronicle The Financial Times Guide to Investing is the definitive introduction to the art of successful stock market investing. Bestselling author Glen Arnold takes you from the basics of what investors do and why companies need them through to the practicalities of buying and selling shares and how to make the most from your money. He describes different types of investment vehicles and advises you on how to be successful at picking companies, understanding their accounts, managing a sophisticated portfolio, measuring performance and risk and setting up an investment club. The third edition of this investing classic will give you everything you need to choose your shares with skill and confidence. Thoroughly updated, this edition now includes: - Comprehensive advice about unit trusts and other collective investments - A brand new section on dividend payments and what to watch out for - An expanded jargon-busting glossary to demystify those complex phrases and concepts - Recent Financial Times articles and tables to illustrate and expand on case studies and examples - Detailed updates of changes to tax rates and legislation as well as increases in ISA allowances and revisions to capital gains tax
• Altri titoli varianti: Guide to investing
• Titolo autorizzato: The Financial times guide to investing
• ISBN: 1-292-00516-5; 1-292-00517-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153258803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Financial times guides.