Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies - UK

David Stevenson

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Beschreibung

Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any
market

With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build
and manage a portfolio of investments that's flexible enough
to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing.
Inside you'll 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)

Autorentext

David Stevenson is a columnist for the Financial Times where he writes the Adventurous Investor section. He is also a columnist for Investors Chronicle and author of Investing in Shares For Dummies, UK edition.

Zusammenfassung

Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market

With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build and manage a portfolio of investments that's flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside you'll 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)

Inhalt

Introduction 1

Part I: It's All about Portfolios 7

Chapter 1: Introducing Great Opportunities for Advanced
Investors 9

Chapter 2: Assessing Risk: Deciding What Kind of Investor You
Are 25

Part II: Picking the Strategies for You 43

Chapter 3: Grasping Basic Hedge-Fund Strategies 45

Chapter 4: Dealing with Volatility and Economic Cycles 63

Chapter 5: Digging Deeper into Alternative Assets: Commodities
and Currencies 91

Chapter 6: Assessing the Hedge-Fund Industry: Don't
Believe the Hype 111

Part III: Thinking and Acting Like a Hedgie: Simple
Strategies You Can Employ Yourself 129

Chapter 7: Selling What You Don't Own: Short Selling
131