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Exclusive All about investing
  • 2006
  • Esme Faerber
  • McGraw-Hill
Provides inexperienced investors with what they need to know to get started. Includes techniques for establishing realistic investment goals, buying the proper assets to meet those goals, and constructing a safe and suitable portfolio of long-term investments.
Exclusive All about short selling
  • 2011
  • Tom Taulli
  • McGraw-Hill
How to get started with short selling so that it can be safely worked into an overall investment programme. Includes benefits of short selling, inherent risk, tips for analysing balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements and ways to manage and evaluate a portfolio that includes shorted investments.
Exclusive Commodity options: trading and hedging volatility in the world's most lucrative market
  • 2009
  • Carley Garner, Paul Brittain
  • Pearson
A guide to commodity options trading. Includes how commodity options work, how they evolved and why conventional options strategies often fail in the commodity options markets. The authors go on to show how to leverage the unique characteristics of commodity options using detailed examples.
Exclusive Dictionary of finance and banking
  • 2018
  • Jonathan Law
  • Oxford University Press
This sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully revised and updated to take into account the ever-developing financial landscape of the last five years. This comprehensive A-Z defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including money markets, private investments and borrowing, central banking, foreign exchanges, monetary policy, and public and government finance.
Exclusive Financial Times guide to foreign exchange trading
  • 2015
  • Stuart Fieldhouse
  • FT Publishing International
An introduction to the foreign exchange marketplace, showing how the markets work, how to trade them successfully and how to mitigate risk.
Exclusive Financial Times guide to investing: the definitive companion to investment and the financial markets
  • 2020
  • Glen Arnold
  • Pearson Education Limited
The book is the definitive introduction to the art of successful stock market investing by debunking the myth that investing is only for the wealthy.
Exclusive Financial Times guide to using the financial pages
  • 2006
  • Romesh Vaitilingam
  • Pearson
Includes sections on identifying key financial factors, international financial markets, and economics. It describes the major kinds of statistics and business information and where to find them.
Exclusive Foreign exchange: a practical guide to the FX markets
  • 2006
  • Tim Weithers
  • John Wiley and Sons
Primer on foreign exchange. It includes chapters on money markets, interest rates, a brief history of foreign exchange, foreign exchange swaps, exotic options and structured products, the economics of exchange rates and international trade, and currency crises.
Exclusive How the City really works: the definitive guide to money and investing in London's Square Mile
  • 2008
  • Alexander Davidson
  • Kogan Page
Describes the key roles and institutions within the City of London, from stockbrokers and foreign exchange dealers to accountants and Lloyd's underwriters, and explains how they relate to each other. Includes sections on investment banking, commercial banking, derivative financial instruments, share trading, insurance and the insurance market. The book also contains new sections on fraud and money laundering, credit derivatives, corporate governance, and the pensions market.
Exclusive How the stock market really works: the guerrilla investor's secret handbook
  • 2008
  • Leo Gough
  • Prentice Hall
The book contains chapters on shares and bonds, assessing companies, investment theories and strategies, foreign exchange, financial derivatives, fraud, overseas investment, retirement planning, and UK taxation.
Exclusive How the stock market works: a beginner's guide to investment
  • 2017
  • Michael Becket
  • Kogan Page
A guide to how the stock markets work and the effects of the market on savings, investment portfolios and pensions. How the Stock Market Works tells investors what is being traded and how, who does what with whom, and how to evaluate a particular share or bond in light of rival claims from critics and admirers. From the practical consequences of being a shareholder to a basic coverage of the taxation regime, this book provides information on individual product types as well as the key players in the markets.
Exclusive Long and short of hedge funds: a complete guide to hedge fund valuation and investing, The
  • 2009
  • Daniel A. Strachman
  • John Wiley and Sons
Covers the history of hedge funds, transparent management of a fund, raising money for a hedge fund, supporting staff, and fraud. The appendices include a due diligence questionnaire, a resource guide, and the historic performance of certain hedge funds.
Exclusive Pension trustee's investment guide
  • 2008
  • Robin Ellison, Adam Jolly
  • John Wiley and Sons
Designed to equip trustees of pension funds with the tools to make good financial investments. Covers the nature of financial markets and products, investment strategies, risk management, and has an appendix on the British pensions system.
Exclusive Private equity and venture capital
  • 2022
  • Serena Gallo, Vincenzo Verdoliva
  • Springer
This book summarises the theoretical background of private equity and venture capital industry; provides and updated overview in terms of volume and trends of private equity and venture capital; and includes practical examples of valuation in the private equity and venture capital industry.
Exclusive Warren Buffett way, The
  • 2004
  • Robert G. Hagstrom
  • John Wiley and Sons
Uses the life of Warren Buffett as a guide to making successful investments. The strategies for investment appraisal are built around a series of key tenets, but there are more details chapters providing advice on buying a business, managing an investment portfolio and general money management.
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