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The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide by David Berger
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    • Product code: 15622
    • ISBN: 0752265393, ISBN13: 9780752265391, 384 pages, paperback
      Published by Boxtree, 3rd edition, 2002
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    Description of The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide

    In this no-nonsense guide, The Motley Fools show you how to invest your money wisely for a profitable future. If your idea of investment begins and ends with a savings account at a building society, then this book is for you. Using practical examples and with their usual off-the-wall style, the Fools cut through financial jargon and take you through the basics of investing.

    This Foolish book will show you how to:

    - Sort out your personal finances
    - Decide on your investment objectives
    - Choose companies to invest in
    - Interpret the numbers in a company report

    With advice delivered in plain English, and peppered with humour and mind-boggling facts, this book provides the bricks with which to build a secure financial future.

    Contents of The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide

    Introduction
    How to Use this Book

    Starting Out
    1. Why You Should Invest
    2. The Miracle of Compound Interest
    3. All That Glitters Is Not Gold
    4. The Bible of the Long-Distance Investor
    5. You Have More Than You Think
    6. Be Your Own Financial Adviser
    7. A Tale of Two Professions and Basic Foolish Investment

    Interlude
    8. A Foray Into Some Very Foolish Ventures
    9. This Online World

    Moving On
    10. When Not To Invest
    11. A Share Primer
    12. Obviously Great Investments
    13. The Ten Most Common Investing Mistakes

    What You've (Maybe) Already Got
    14. The Dangerous World of Pensions
    15. The Disturbing Abyss of Endowments
    16. The Tranquil Paradise of ISAs
    17. Unit Trusts, Investment Trusts and All Sorts

    Bits 'n' Bobs
    18. Be Your Own Landlord
    19. Investing for Income
    20. Six Lessons from the Technology Boom and Bust
    21. Where Else to Invest
    22. The Ethical Fool

    Rounding Up
    23. Welcome to the End of the Beginning!

    Foolish glossary of investment terms

    Appendices
    1. Coping with Compound Interest: The Mathematics
    2. What Makes a Good Index Tracker?
    3. Major UK Index Trackers
    5. Useful Websites
    6. The Pan-galactic Gargle Buster

    Index

    About David Berger

    Bruce Jackson and David Berger founded the Motley Fool UK in 1997.

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