David Stevenson

Managing Your Investment Portfolio for Dummies - UK

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market

With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build and manage a portfolio of investments that's flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside you'll find a wealth of strategies and techniques to help you take your investments to the next level. Lean to track and predict volatility; hedge your exposure by going long and short; use strategies like arbitrage, relative value and pairs trading; and dip into distressed assets, options, derivatives, spread betting and much more.

Techniques and strategies covered include:
Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gains on very volatile markets
Hedging exposure and going long and short
Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences between markets)
Pairs trading
Relative value strategies
Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream that may have long-term value)
Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering better earnings than predicted by analysts)
Options and derivatives
Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economic cycles)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 185mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781118457092
• ISBN-10: 1118457099
• Artikelnr.: 36956116

Autorenporträt

David Stevenson is a columnist for the Financial Times where he writes the Adventurous Investor section. He is also a columnist for Investors Chronicle and author of Investing in Shares For Dummies, UK edition.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Part I: It's All about Portfolios 7 Chapter 1: Introducing
Great Opportunities for Advanced Investors 9 Chapter 2: Assessing Risk:
Deciding What Kind of Investor You Are 25 Part II: Picking the Strategies
for You 43 Chapter 3: Grasping Basic Hedge-Fund Strategies 45 Chapter 4:
Dealing with Volatility and Economic Cycles 63 Chapter 5: Digging Deeper
into Alternative Assets: Commodities and Currencies 91 Chapter 6: Assessing
the Hedge-Fund Industry: Don't Believe the Hype 111 Part III: Thinking and
Acting Like a Hedgie: Simple Strategies You Can Employ Yourself 129 Chapter
7: Selling What You Don't Own: Short Selling 131 Chapter 8: Understanding
Arbitrage: Big Name, Simple Idea 149 Chapter 9: Weighing Up Growth Versus
Value Investing 165 Chapter 10: Gearing up to Use Leverage 187 Chapter 11:
Stepping into Structured Investments 197 Chapter 12: Benefitting from
Shareholder Activism 211 Part IV: Delving into More Specialist Techniques
(with a Little Help) 229 Chapter 13: Advanced Investing in Commodities:
Sharks and Rocket Scientists 231 Chapter 14: Investing in Emerging-Market
Equities and Currencies 253 Chapter 15: Investing Macro Style: Seeing the
Big Picture 269 Part V: Tools of the Trade: Useful Instruments 295 Chapter
16: Following Indices: Exchange-Traded Funds and Other Trackers 297 Chapter
17: Taking a Punt on the Financial Markets 325 Part VI: The Part of Tens
339 Chapter 18: Ten Top Tips to Protect Your Stash 341 Chapter 19: Ten
Hedge-Fund Style Techniques to Grow Your Wealth 347 Index 353