The Financial Times Guide to Investing in Funds


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Learn how to evaluate any investment fund before deciding where to place your money so you can ensure you generate more wealth and protect your cash. This valuable guide will help you make the right investment decisions by: - Explaining the procedures that should be followed before investing money anywhere. - Helping you cut through marketing language to get a real sense of how risky a company’s strategy may be. - Showing you what questions to ask of investment fund managers so you’re more comfortable investing in a company. - Showing you how to recognise the warning signs of risky investments. This book will also help you identify companies who consistently deliver high returns, thereby allowing you to generate more wealth by investing in successful, and stable, funds.




The Financial Times Guide to Investment Trusts


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The Financial Times Guide to Investment Trusts is your concise and jargon free introduction to one of the City’s best kept secrets. It explains how investment trusts differ from unit trusts and OEICs and explores the pros and cons of investment trusts including their superior performance. It also helps you identify your investment objectives, discusses the basic principles of successful investing, and how to run a trust portfolio. Whether you are a novice DIY investor or have many years’ experience and wish to question the experts; the FT Guide to Investment Trusts: Provides a detailed overview of what investment trusts are and how they differ from other funds Examines the factors which help to explain the better performance of trusts – including cheaper fees, discounts and gearing Analyses the stepping stones to successful investing Shows you how to construct and monitor a trust portfolio Highlights the workings of two live and benchmarked portfolios which John has been sharing with Investor Chronicle readers over the years. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.




The Financial Times Guide to Investing ePub


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The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. 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 3rd 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




The Financial Times Guide to Investment Trusts


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A comprehensive and practical guide to investment trusts. These investment vehicles have been underused by investors in the past, but that is set to change now that the Retail Distribution Review has banned commissions and put investment trusts on a level playing field. The book explains what investment trusts are and focuses on how to construct and run a trust portfolio. It offers investors, both experienced and novice, a concise and jargon free guide to these lucrative investment vehicles.




The Financial Times Guide to Making the Right Investment Decisions


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Do you want to feel more confident about your investment decisions? Do you need to have a better understanding of how the stock markets value a business? Do you want to know what the key ratios are that drive share price performance? The Financial Times Guide to Making the Right Investment Decisions is the insider’s guide to how the market examines companies and values shares. It helps you understand the factors that drive long term wealth creation as well as highlighting the key risks that lead to value being destroyed. Originally published as Analysing Companies and Valuing Shares, this new edition has been fully revised and includes a new and easy to follow framework for understanding valuation. Perfect for investors at all levels, it guides you through the investment maze, and highlights the key issues you need to consider to invest successfully. The Financial Times Guide to Making the Right Investment Decisions: · Gives you an easy to follow framework to guide your decision-making · Explains clearly and concisely key financial concepts and how they drive valuation · Shows you the key ratios to monitor and how they affect share prices · Illustrates the key risks and warning signals that will help you avoid losses · Identifies the qualities of company management and governance that differentiates winners from losers · Brings the issues and numbers to life with real examples and case studies In a challenging economic and stock market environment, the need to take better informed decisions is vital. This clear, common sense guide provides a comprehensive and accessible framework for understanding the valuation of a business and what drives its share price. Knowing the key numbers, ratios and techniques that professional investors use will help you to reduce your risk and invest more profitably.




FT Guide to Wealth Management


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The Financial Times Guide to Wealth Management is your definitive guide to preserving and enhancing your wealth and getting the most out of your finances. Whether you want to do it yourself, or get an overview of the basics so you can understand the experts, this book gives you the answers. Up to date with all the latest changes to UK pension, tax and legal rules, it covers everything you need to know in one easy to read guide.




The Financial Times Guide to Investing


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The Financial Times Guide to Investingis the definitive introduction to the art of successful stock market investing. Beginning with the very basics of why companies need investors and explaining what investors do, Glen Arnold takes you through the practicalities of buying and selling shares. He describes different types of investment vehicles and advises you how you can be successful at picking companies, understanding their accounts, managing a sophisticated portfolio, measuring performance and risk and setting up an investment club. The second edition of this bestselling introduction to investing explains how the financial markets operate, shows you what you need to know to be successful and encourages you to follow and act on your own judgements. Thoroughly updated to help you invest with skill and confidence, new sections include: Online investing, website information and tools including screenshots and virtual portfolios as well as computerised counterparty trading Detailed updating of tax rates and legislation, increases in ISA allowances and revisions to capital gains tax A jargon-busting glossary to help you understand words, phrases and investing concepts Recent Financial Times articles and tables which illustrate and expand on case studies and examples Up-to-date statistics on the returns you can expect on shares and bonds Investing can be profitable and fun and The Financial Times Guide to Investing 2nd edition, explains step-by-step both the essentials of investing as well as describing how the financial markets really work. It details the practicalities of investing, such as how to go about buying shares and describes the variety of financial securities you can buy, from bonds and unit trusts through to exchange traded funds. Exploding the myths that only the wealthy can afford to buy and sell shares and showing you why you can be just as successful trading on your own as you would be by employing a fund manager, this authoritative guide book will help you build a profitable personal financial portfolio. What is investment The rewards of investment Understanding stock markets Using the financial media Buying and selling shares Pooled investments Investing in bonds Futures and options Financial spreadbetting Analysing companies and industries Mastering company reports and accounts Key investment ratios and measures Ticks of the accounting trade Managing your portfolio Mergers and takeovers Taxation and investors Measuring performance Investor protection Investment clubs







The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024


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The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024 is the seventh edition of the highly regarded annual handbook for anyone interested in investment trusts – often referred to as the City’s best-kept secret, or the connoisseur’s choice among investment funds. It is expertly edited by well-known author and professional investor Jonathan Davis, founder and editor of the Money Makers newsletter and podcast. The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024 is an editorially independent educational publication, available through bookshops and extensively online. Described in the media as “truly the definitive guide to the sector”, more than 45,000 copies of the Handbook have been sold or downloaded since launch. With fascinating articles by more than 20 different authors, including analysts, fund managers and investment writers, plus more than 80 pages of detailed data and analysis, including performance figures, trust comings and goings and fund manager histories, the latest edition of the handbook is an indispensable companion for anyone looking to invest in the investment trust sector. Contributors this year include: John Baron, Alan Brierley, James Carthew, Richard Curling, Alex Davies, Simon Edelsten, Simon Elliott, Nick Greenwood, Peter Hewitt, Matt Hose, Max King, Ewan Lovett-Turner, Colette Ord, Peter Spiller, Richard Stone, Stuart Watson and many more. Topics in this year’s 280-page edition include: the impact of rising interest rates, tackling discounts, industry consolidation, the hunt for bargains, the role of boards, alternatives, VCTs, fundraising news, and the editor’s notes and model portfolios. The Investment Trusts Handbook 2024 is supported by a number of organisations including abrdn, Asset Value Investors, Baillie Gifford, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, Fidelity International, Invesco, Ocean Dial Asset Management Ltd, Pantheon, Polar Capital, and Schroders.




The Financial Times Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds


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Since the first edition of The Financial Times Guide to ETFs was published in 2009, the number of ETFs in issue has doubled and ETFs are now common both on investor platforms and increasingly amongst financial advisors. This massive increase in demand has highlighted an urgent debate – just how dangerous are ETFs and how much do investors and advisers understand about the structure of the index tracker? The second edition of this book attempts to answer this debate and is the indispensable bible on trackers for professional advisers and serious private investors. This new edition also features a chapter based around the theme of Due Diligence and a new chapter on How to use ETFs and Index Funds for theLong-term, as well as a new Jargon busting section and a-new appendix looking at new ideas beginning to emerge.