Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform:10 Ways to Beatthe Stock Market (The FT Guides) - Tapa blanda

'One of the best books on stock market investing that I've ever read.' Christopher Gilchrist, Editor, The IRS Report 'Lucid and perceptive any intelligent person can follow this guide and be on equal terms or better with the best professional money managers' Dr Peter Johnson, Said Business School, Oxford University Is your investment strategy right for you? Could you be making more money? The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform helps you identify the approach to buying and selling shares that will work best for you. It will help you to align your strategy based on the time and money you have available, your overall objectives and your attitudes to risk and loss. In this thoroughly updated fourth edition of their best-selling investment classic, Richard Koch and Leo Gough explain ten distinctive and proven investment techniques for you to choose from. They describe the different tactics needed for today's bear market conditions and show you how it can be fun and profitable to try to beat the stock market. The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform gives you: Convincing reasons why you should manage your own share portfolio A quiz which helps you identify what kind of investor you are, and what strategy is right for you Ten proven approaches to selecting successful shares Examples and explanations of successes and failures With most things we buy, from a house or car to lunch, we make an effort to make choices that will suit our lifestyle, personality, budget and needs. So why should stocks and shares be any different? Originally published as Selecting Shares that Perform, the book shows you how to find an investment method that works for you, stick to it, and increase your chances of making serious money on the stock market. Whether you are new to investing, or already a sophisticated investor, The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform makes playing the stock market not only more profitable, but also more fun.

Richard Koch is the author of 15 highly acclaimed books, including the best-selling 80/20 trilogy --- The 80/20 Principle (over 700,000 copies sold), The 80/20 Individual, and most recently Living the 80/20 Way. His bestselling FTPH book, FT Guide to Strategy, has just published in its third edition. As well as lecturing and broadcasting, he is an extremely successful entrepreneur and investor. His ventures have included Filofax, Belgo, Plymouth Gin, Capstone, and currently Betfair, the world's largest betting exchange. Formerly he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, a partner of Bain & Company, and a founder of LEK Consulting. He was educated at the Universityof Pennsylvaniaand at OxfordUniversity. He is now an outside director of several companies, including listed venture capital houses in Luxembourgand the UK. He has homes in London, Cape Town, and the south of Spain. His investment successes have propelled him well into The Sunday Times Rich List. James Morton has a been successful investor over a long time period. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer of a top performing fund with $1.5bn under management. His previous books include the FT Global Guide to Investing.