Investing for Dummies

By: Tony Levene

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Product code: 17095
ISBN: 0764570234
320 pages
Format: Pb
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2004, UK edition

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Description of Investing for Dummies

This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to assess your financial situation, gauge risks and returns - and make sound, sensible investment choices

If you think investment is only for the likes of Richard Branson, think again! The UK is already home to 12 million people who directly own shares and bonds. With updated coverage of everything from Internet brokerages to information sources, this friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to assess your financial situation, gauge risks and returns - and make sound, sensible investment choices. It's the only book you need to start building wealth!

Investing for Dummies - Chapter headings

Introduction

PART I: Investment Basics

1. First Steps on the Money Trail

2. Checking Your Personal Life Before You Invest

3. Recognising What Makes an Investor Tick

4. Squaring Risks with Returns

5. Being Aware of the Small Print

PART II: Shares and Bonds

6. Comprehending How Stock Markets Work

7. Taking the Top-Down View of Investing

8. Investing in Markets

9. Analysing Stock-Market-Quoted Companies

10. Banking on Bonds

11. Building Your Information Bank

12. Choosing a Stockbroker

PART III: Collective Investments

13. Looking at Fund Management

14. Getting Into Unit Trusts

15. Gearing Up with Investment Trusts

16. Examining Investment-Linked Insurance Plans

17. Hedging Your Fund Bets

18. Investing at Random

PART IV: Property and Alternatives

19. Investing in Bricks and Mortar

20. Delving into Exotic Investments

PART V: The Part of Tens

21. Ten Tips for Finding a Good Adviser

22. Ten Helpful Hints for You

Index

Authobiography of Tony Levene

Tony Levene is a member of The Guardian Jobs & Money team where he writes on issues ranging from investment to consumer rights. He has been a financial journalist for nearly 30 years, after spending a year or so teaching French beforehand. Over his career, he has worked for newspapers including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Star, and Sunday Mirror. He has also published six previous books on investment and financial issues.

He lives in London with his wife Claudia, 'almost grown up' children Zoë and Oliver, and cats Plato, Pandora, and Pascal.