David Stevenson

Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies, UK Edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sybex
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118457122
• Artikelnr.: 39195467

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