The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform helps you identify
the approach to buying and selling shares that will work best for you. It will help you to
align your strategy based on the time and money you have available, your overall
objectives and your attitudes to risk and loss.
In this thoroughly updated fourth edition of their best-selling investment classic,
Richard Koch and Leo Gough explain ten distinctive and proven investment techniques
for you to choose from. They describe the different tactics needed for today’s bear
market conditions and show you how it can be fun and profitable to try to beat the stock
market.
The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform gives you:
- Convincing reasons why you should manage your own share portfolio
- A quiz which helps you identify what kind of investor you are, and what strategy
is right for you
- Ten proven approaches to selecting successful shares
- Examples and explanations of successes and failures
With most things we buy, from a house or car to lunch, we make an effort to make
choices that will suit our lifestyle, personality, budget and needs. So why should stocks
and shares be any different?
Originally published as Selecting Shares that Perform, the book shows you how to find
an investment method that works for you, stick to it, and increase your chances of making
serious money on the stock market.
Whether you are new to investing, or already a sophisticated investor, The Financial
Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform makes playing the stock market not only more
profitable, but also more fun.
Table of Contents
OREWORD TO 4TH EDITION
PART ONE: Strategy for the individual investor
CHAPTER 1
Why the stock market?
CHAPTER 2
Should you try to out-perform the market?
CHAPTER 3
David versus Goliath
CHAPTER 4
Rules to stop you losing
CHAPTER 5
Record-keeping for fun
CHAPTER 6
Why you need your own approach
CHAPTER 7
How to pick your own approach
PART TWO: Ten Ways that work
Introduction
WAY I
Follow the Rainmakers
WAY II
Backing winners
WAY III
Specialisation
WAY IV
Detecting earnings acceleration
WAY V
Outsider information
WAY VI
Good businesses
WAY VII
Value investing
WAY VIII
Emerging markets
WAY IX
Contrarian investing
Way X
Star Businesses
224 pages, Paperback