Managing Your Investment Portfolio for Dummies - UK

ISBN-13: 9781118457092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str.

David Stevenson

Opis

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)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.