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# Comprehensive investing strategies Up-to-date market data & tax info Beginner-friendly jargon glossary The Financial Times Guide to Investing: The definitive companion to investment and the financial markets (The FT Guides)

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## Key Features

- • **Decode Financial Jargon:** Clear glossary to empower your investment decisions
- • **Master the Market Basics:** Step-by-step guide from novice to savvy investor
- • **Invest Confidently Online:** Detailed walkthrough of digital investing tools & virtual portfolios
- • **Build a Profitable Portfolio:** Learn to analyze companies, manage risk & measure performance
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## Overview

The Financial Times Guide to Investing is a thoroughly updated, accessible manual designed to equip beginners and intermediate investors with essential knowledge of stock markets, investment vehicles, portfolio management, and financial analysis. Featuring practical advice, current tax and market data, and digital investing insights, it empowers readers to confidently build and manage profitable investment portfolios.

## Description

The Financial Times Guide to Investing is the definitive introduction to the art of successful stock market investing. Beginning with the very basics of why companies need investors and explaining what investors do, Glen Arnold takes you through the practicalities of buying and selling shares. He describes different types of investment vehicles and advises you how you can be successful at picking companies, understanding their accounts, managing a sophisticated portfolio, measuring performance and risk and setting up an investment club. The second edition of this bestselling introduction to investing explains how the financial markets operate, shows you what you need to know to be successful and encourages you to follow and act on your own judgements. Thoroughly updated to help you invest with skill and confidence, new sections include: Online investing, website information and tools including screenshots and virtual portfolios as well as computerised counterparty trading Detailed updating of tax rates and legislation, increases in ISA allowances and revisions to capital gains tax A jargon-busting glossary to help you understand words, phrases and investing concepts Recent Financial Times articles and tables which illustrate and expand on case studies and examples Up-to-date statistics on the returns you can expect on shares and bonds Investing can be profitable and fun and The Financial Times Guide to Investing 2nd edition, explains step-by-step both the essentials of investing as well as describing how the financial markets really work. It details the practicalities of investing, such as how to go about buying shares and describes the variety of financial securities you can buy, from bonds and unit trusts through to exchange traded funds. Exploding the myths that only the wealthy can afford to buy and sell shares and showing you why you can be just as successful trading on your own as you would be by employing a fund manager, this authoritative guide book will help you build a profitable personal financial portfolio. What is investment The rewards of investment Understanding stock markets Using the financial media Buying and selling shares Pooled investments Investing in bonds Futures and options Financial spreadbetting Analysing companies and industries Mastering company reports and accounts Key investment ratios and measures Ticks of the accounting trade Managing your portfolio Mergers and takeovers Taxation and investors Measuring performance Investor protection Investment clubs

Review: Surprisingly readable! - Prior to picking up this book I should point out that I have (had!) no background in economics at all. I was merely someone who was looking to invest, as savings accounts in the UK were a waste of time and I wanted to investigate more practical uses for my money. The first point I'd like to make about this book is that it is surprisingly readable. I don't just mean the author's very straightforward and non overly-technical prose, but also the dimensions and layout of the print which makes it a very comfortable read. The sections are all well laid out and if perhaps you want to look up advice on company accounts, the meanings of particular financial jargon, etc. then it's all very straightforward to find. The second point is that the book does a superb job at introducing absolute beginners to the concepts of investments and markets. This is NOT a book of tips or short-cuts to investment success (you know those websites that pop-up in your face with pay-to-subscribe tips for investments). In fact, the only times specific companies are mentioned is in the past tense when illustrating a historical point about their finances or reports. This book is for those who don't want to pick out companies at random, or take 'punts' or 'tips', but who wish to look into reports for themselves and try to understand (as far as reason and resources allow) how a company is performing before going in for investment. A truly excellent book that I originally feared would bore me to tears!
Review: Recommended - In an economy which at the moment seems to be so focused on borrowing, this comes as an extremely welcome read. Why this material is not compulsory in all schools is saddening. The guide is extremely well presented and very logically structured, starting with the basics of how and why companies are structured before moving on to the specifics of investment. Investment/ economics/ capitalism are major subject areas in themselves and this book expertly manages most of the time to get the balance spot on. It is a perfect length and goes into plenty of detail but no too much detail thus avoiding become a technical bore that is not more accessible to a wider audience. The guide also serves as an excellent reference resource, although I read it first time front-to-back. Four stars for a few picky reasons. It's slightly out of date, chapters could do with better summaries at the end (i.e. what are the key/ points/ learnings) and at times it can get fairly technical quite quickly and in doing so it loses sight of practical applications. Nevertheless, very much recommended.

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 492,461 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 915 in Personal Financial Investing 4,085 in Professional Finance |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly readable!
*by A***S on 5 December 2011*

Prior to picking up this book I should point out that I have (had!) no background in economics at all. I was merely someone who was looking to invest, as savings accounts in the UK were a waste of time and I wanted to investigate more practical uses for my money. The first point I'd like to make about this book is that it is surprisingly readable. I don't just mean the author's very straightforward and non overly-technical prose, but also the dimensions and layout of the print which makes it a very comfortable read. The sections are all well laid out and if perhaps you want to look up advice on company accounts, the meanings of particular financial jargon, etc. then it's all very straightforward to find. The second point is that the book does a superb job at introducing absolute beginners to the concepts of investments and markets. This is NOT a book of tips or short-cuts to investment success (you know those websites that pop-up in your face with pay-to-subscribe tips for investments). In fact, the only times specific companies are mentioned is in the past tense when illustrating a historical point about their finances or reports. This book is for those who don't want to pick out companies at random, or take 'punts' or 'tips', but who wish to look into reports for themselves and try to understand (as far as reason and resources allow) how a company is performing before going in for investment. A truly excellent book that I originally feared would bore me to tears!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Recommended
*by L***L on 9 September 2012*

In an economy which at the moment seems to be so focused on borrowing, this comes as an extremely welcome read. Why this material is not compulsory in all schools is saddening. The guide is extremely well presented and very logically structured, starting with the basics of how and why companies are structured before moving on to the specifics of investment. Investment/ economics/ capitalism are major subject areas in themselves and this book expertly manages most of the time to get the balance spot on. It is a perfect length and goes into plenty of detail but no too much detail thus avoiding become a technical bore that is not more accessible to a wider audience. The guide also serves as an excellent reference resource, although I read it first time front-to-back. Four stars for a few picky reasons. It's slightly out of date, chapters could do with better summaries at the end (i.e. what are the key/ points/ learnings) and at times it can get fairly technical quite quickly and in doing so it loses sight of practical applications. Nevertheless, very much recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential Reading
*by A***E on 28 June 2013*

There is not much that you need to know about investing that is not in this book. I have owned it for a while now and whilst I have not read it cover-to-cover like a "normal book" I refer to it on a regular basis. I am a financial adviser and have taken numerous investment-based exams and this has always been good at clarifying subject matter that other text books have failed to cover properly (or in depth). The CII and CISI list this book as "recommended reading" and for good reason. If you are not working in financial services but want an understanding of the investing then this book is great. The content is not as impenetrable as many other books on the subject. However, the book is 584 pages long (487 pages of content, a near-80 page glossary then index) and some people may find it daunting to just pick up let alone try to read. Don't be put off, it is well laid out and you will find it easy enough to search for, and find, what it is that you want. The first chapter starts with "What is Investment?" and then progresses to other chapters such as "Stock Markets", "Buying and Selling Shares", "Pooled Investments" and even has a chapter on "Spread Betting". Anyone non-financial looking to buy their own shares will really benefit from "Company Accounts" and "Tricks of The Accounting Trade". I cant genuinely think of a fault to the book. Anyone wishing for something super-technical would do better to get an investment management text book - there is very little, except for a glossary entry, about CAPM or MPT etc. Highly recommended

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