Overview
How do the world's most successful investors achieve an out-performance of the market? What helps them determine what stocks to buy? For decades famous and not so famous investors have been using a variety of strategies to screen the market and narrow down potential shares. Analysis shows that it's more lucrative to focus on a set of shares with defined characteristics than to invest across a wide variety of markets. Smarter Stock Picking walks you through the key screening techniques that will enable you to make discriminating and intelligent share choices. Over the long term, stocks and shares have proven themselves to be one of the best investments available. Despite some risks, they beat both bonds and cash. But what's the most effective way to ensure that you're using the best strategies to buy the best shares? Using proven research based studies, Smarter Stock Picking walks you through each screening technique and shows you how to deploy key strategies that will help you successfully pick the right stocks so that you can get the right returns. Drawing on a range of ideas and theories from classic value investing through to popular momentum based strategies it explains the thinking and the actual measures used, and will help you develop your own strategies. Smarter Stock Pickingincludes: The Measures The Theory Dividends Back to the Source Deep Value Investing The world according to Tweedy, Browne and Graham Quality and Growth of wide moats and GARP All Out for Growth small caps and the momentum effect Putting it into Practice : How an Investor Investigates a Company by Paul Darrall Dolman Putting it Into Practice : Shooting Stars by John Mulligan Putting it into Practice : The Share Maestro System by Glenn Martin Putting it into Practice : Using Sharescope and InvestorEase Putting it into Practice : Fundamental Indexing What really works
Full Product Details
Author: David Stevenson
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Imprint: Financial Times Prentice Hall
Dimensions:
Width: 23.10cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 16.10cm
Weight: 0.750kg
ISBN: 9780273727811
ISBN 10: 0273727818
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 04 November 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Author Information
David Stevenson is a columnist for the FT Weekend edition, and writes the Adventurous Investor section which is about everything from investing in Mongolia through to using ETFs in your portfolio. He's also a columnist for the Investors Chronicle (based around his SIPP) and before that was a columnist for Citywire. David writes extensively about ETFs for the IC and the Financial Times and is currently developing a series of Master Portfolios for the IC. David also runs a media company and has online broadcasts called The Four Wise Monkeys - http://www.4wm.co.uk/ ..
