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Shares Made Simple by Rodney Hobson
  • Shares Made Simple

  • A beginner's guide to the stock market

  • by Rodney Hobson
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    • Product code: 172146
    • ISBN: 1905641451, ISBN13: 9781905641451, 212 pages, paperback
      Published by Harriman House, 1st edition, 2007
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    Description of Shares Made Simple

    At last a book that champions the small investor, the growing bank of potential shareholders who have cash to spare but fear entering the jungle that is the City of London.

    Shares Made Simple, written by highly respected financial journalist Rodney Hobson, tears away the mystique and jargon that surrounds the stock market. It takes you step by step through the most basic concepts of stock market investing, carefully explaining issues such as:

    • What shares are and how they are bought and sold
    • Why share prices go up and down
    • Why some companies' shares look cheap while others appear to be expensive
    • The hidden traps for the unwary

    This book sets out to create a level playing field between the stock market professionals and the small investor. As rising living standards and inherited cash provide assets for investment, no-one needs to suffer pitiful bank interest rates when there is real money to be made in sharing the nation's wealth.

    Contents of Shares Made Simple

    SECTION A – SHARES
    1. What are shares?
    2. How shares are created
    3. Whose company is it?
    4. What's in it for me?
    5. Is my investment safe?

    SECTION B – THE STOCK MARKET
    6. The market place
    7. London Stock Exchange
    8. Full listings and AIM
    9. How shares are traded
    10. Stock market indices

    SECTION C – COMPANIES
    11. Company focus
    12. Profit and loss
    13. Balance sheet
    14. Potential nasties

    SECTION D – INVESTING
    15. Starting out
    16. Stockbrokers
    17. Fundamental data
    18. Charting
    19. Tips
    20. Jargon busting

    SECTION E – TAKEOVERS
    21. Mergers and acquisitions
    22. Before a bid
    23. A bid is launched
    24. Bid timetable
    25. Bid battles
    26. Management buyouts

    Appendix
    Useful websites
    Index

    About Rodney Hobson

    Rodney Hobson is an experienced financial journalist who has held senior editorial positions with publications in the UK and Asia and is currently Editor of Ipreo, an international financial services group.

    Among posts he has held are News Editor for the Business section of The Times, Business Editor of the Singapore Monitor, Deputy Business Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Head of News at Citywire and Editor of Shares magazine.

    He has also contributed to the Daily Mail, the Independent and Business Franchise Magazine.

    He is registered as a Representative with the Financial Services Authority.

    Rodney is married with one daughter.

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