How the stock market works : a beginner's guide to investment /: a beginner's guide to investment. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Stock market works
• Further Information: Note: Michael Becket.
• Authors: Becket, Michael (Michael Ivan H.)
• Contents: How this book can help -- Acknowledgements -- 01. What and why are shares? -- Quoted shares -- Returns -- Stock markets -- 02. What are bonds and gilts? -- Bonds -- Preference shares -- Convertibles -- Gilts -- 03. The complicated world of derivatives -- Pooled investments -- Other derivatives -- 04. Foreign shares -- 05. How to pick a share -- Strategy -- The economy -- Picking shares -- 06. Tricks of the professionals -- Fundamental analysis -- Technical analysis -- 07. Where to find advice and information -- Advice -- Information -- Indices -- Online -- Company accounts -- Using the accounts -- Other information from companies -- Other sources -- Complaints -- 08. What does it take to deal in shares? -- Investment clubs -- Costs -- 09. How to trade in shares -- How to buy and sell shares -- Using intermediaries -- Trading -- Stock markets -- Other markets -- 10. When to deal in shares -- Charts -- Technical tools -- Sentiment indicators -- Other indicators -- Selling -- 11. Consequences of being a shareholder -- Information -- Annual general meeting -- Extraordinary general meeting -- Consultation -- Dividends -- Scrip issues -- Rights issues -- Nominee accounts -- Regulated markets -- Codes of conduct -- Takeovers -- Insolvency -- 12. Tax -- Dividends -- Capital profits -- Employee share schemes -- Tax incentives to risk -- ISAs -- SIPPs -- Tax rates -- Glossary.
• Edition: Fifth edition [Enhanced Credo edition]
• Publisher Details: London [England] Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] : Kogan Page
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (71 entries), 19 images
• Subjects: 332.64/2; Investment & Securities; Portfolio management; Stocks; Investment analysis; Stock exchanges; Stock exchanges -- Great Britain; Corporations -- Valuation; Corporations -- Valuation; Investment analysis; Portfolio management; Stock exchanges; Stocks; Personal Finance; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780749472399; 0749472391; 9781785390722; 1785390724
• Related ISBNs: 9780749472382
• Notes: Note: Title page of print version.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.