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The Streetwise Investor
Extraordinary Investing for Ordinary People1. Aufl.
13,99 € |
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Verlag: | Wiley |
Format: | |
Veröffentl.: | 25.06.2004 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781841125947 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 160 |
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Beschreibungen
The Streetwise Investor is no ordinary personal finance guide. It fills the reader with the confidence to make sensible, profitable investment decisions based on common sense. It helps investors understand the problems they're facing and deal with them, and gives them the guidance they need to earn better returns without risking it all.
Acknowledgements. <p>Introduction.</p> <p>1. The shareholder revolution.</p> <p>2. Black Monday, October 1987.</p> <p>3. New Age.</p> <p>4. The New Economy mania.</p> <p>5. Introducing the Contract for Difference.</p> <p>6. How to use contracts for change.</p> <p>7. Spread betting.</p> <p>8. Spotting the trading opportunities.</p> <p>9. Analysing companies.</p> <p>10. Eidos.</p> <p>11. Carphone Warehouse.</p> <p>12. Telewest Communications.</p> <p>13. Safeway.</p> <p>14. New Look.</p> <p>So what is the message of this book?</p> <p>Index.</p>
“…a handy first step to making that first cool million…” (Publishing News, July 04)
<b>Alan Moore</b> enjoyed a highly successful career in the financial services industry. In 1980 he founded what was rapidly to become one of the largest firms of independent investment advisors in the country. In 1987, backed by the recently retired chairman of ICI (Sir John Harvey-Jones), he became the Chief Executive of Burns-Anderson PLC. Retiring at the age of 40 since then he has been an active private investor, studied theology at Oxford, written a regular column for the Guardian and currently acts as a consultant within the gaming industry. <p><b>James Moore</b> is currently reading Computer Science at Downing College, Cambridge. He is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book <i>Professional PHP Programming</i>.</p>
<b>The Streetwise Investor</b> is unlike any other personal investment book you have seen or read. A ‘streetwise investor’ is one who is able to pick up valuable investment tips from what they see/hear on the high street. The investing strategies in this book will fit the reader with the confidence in their ability to make sensible, profitable investment decisions based on everyday observations. The authors’ aim is to give an everyday basis to the whole business of investing, to make investment a bit less like pulling teeth, and to bring the subject down to more concrete levels that ordinary folk can understand and relate to, as well as have fun with. <p><b>The Streetwise Investor</b> will help you:</p> <ul> <li>Increase confidence in your ability to handle our own financial affairs</li> <li>Obtain significantly better returns without taking undue risks</li> <li>Make money by going ‘short’ on companies in trouble</li> </ul> <p><b>The Streetwise Investor</b> will change forever the way we handle our money by making personal investing fun as well as lucrative!</p>