Stevenson Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies - UK, UK Edition

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-45712-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Achieve positive returns on your investments, in anymarket
With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can buildand manage a portfolio of investments that's flexible enoughto provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing.Inside you'll find a wealth of strategies and techniques tohelp you take your investments to the next level. Lean to track andpredict 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, spreadbetting and much more.
Techniques and strategies covered include:
* Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gainson very volatile markets
* Hedging exposure and going long and short
* Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences betweenmarkets)
* Pairs trading
* Relative value strategies
* Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream thatmay have long-term value)
* Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering betterearnings than predicted by analysts)
* Options and derivatives
* Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economiccycles)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stevenson, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
Part I: It's All about Portfolios 7
Chapter 1: Introducing Great Opportunities for AdvancedInvestors 9
Chapter 2: Assessing Risk: Deciding What Kind of Investor YouAre 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: Commoditiesand Currencies 91
Chapter 6: Assessing the Hedge-Fund Industry: Don'tBelieve the Hype 111
Part III: Thinking and Acting Like a Hedgie: SimpleStrategies You Can Employ Yourself 129
Chapter 7: Selling What You Don't Own: Short Selling131
Chapter 8: Understanding Arbitrage: Big Name, Simple Idea149
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 aLittle Help) 229
Chapter 13: Advanced Investing in Commodities: Sharks and RocketScientists 231
Chapter 14: Investing in Emerging-Market Equities and Currencies253
Chapter 15: Investing Macro Style: Seeing the Big Picture269
Part V: Tools of the Trade: UsefulInstruments 295
Chapter 16: Following Indices: Exchange-Traded Funds and OtherTrackers 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 Wealth347
Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

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.