Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market. With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build and manage a portfolio of investments thats flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside youll find a wealth of strategies and techniques to help you take your investments to the next level. Lean to track and predict volatility; hedge your exposure by going long and short; use strategies like arbitrage, relative value and pairs trading; and dip into distressed assets, options, derivatives, spread betting and much more. Techniques and strategies covered include: Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gains on very volatile markets Hedging exposure and going long and short Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences between markets) Pairs trading Relative value strategies Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream that may have long-term value) Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering better earnings than predicted by analysts) Options and derivatives Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economic cycles)
Book Details:
- Author: David Stevenson
- ISBN: 9781118457092
- Year Published: 2013
- Pages: 380
- BISAC: BUS027000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Finance
About the Book and Topic:
Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market. With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build and manage a portfolio of investments thats flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside youll find a wealth of strategies and techniques to help you take your investments to the next level. Lean to track and predict volatility; hedge your exposure by going long and short; use strategies like arbitrage, relative value and pairs trading; and dip into distressed assets, options, derivatives, spread betting and much more. Techniques and strategies covered include: Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gains on very volatile markets Hedging exposure and going long and short Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences between markets) Pairs trading Relative value strategies Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream that may have long-term value) Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering better earnings than predicted by analysts) Options and derivatives Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economic cycles)
Finance professionals use a range of different strategies designed to make money in all markets. Many of these strategies arent that difficult to mimic and the smart individual investor could easily manage a portfolio using these concepts and still hope to achieve the same end result – positive returns in all markets.
Investing in Shares FD provides the nuts and bolts info on how to get started in shares. Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD takes the reader to the next level. The crucial difference in this book is the portfolio approach – i.e. building a portfolio that best suits the individual investors needs in terms of risk, growth expectations, and current market conditions. It offers techniques and strategies not covered in Investing in Shares FD – and also covers other assets, such as bonds. The heart of the book is a collection of investing strategies and techniques that the individual investor can use to build a flexible portfolio that beats the market. Its aimed at those already investing in shares, not complete novices, who are looking for strategies to help them beef up their portfolio. It initiates investors in the art of being flexible, i.e. not just sticking to one tactic or strategy but implementing different strategies in different markets. At £18.99 were indicating the higher level nature of this content but still demonstrating great value for money against the FT series.
About the Author
David Stevenson is a columnist for the Financial Times where he writes the Adventurous Investor section. He has also written three books in the Financial Times Series and is a columnist for the Investors Chronicle. David updated Investing in Shares For Dummies (UK), second edition, which published in February 2012.