This bestselling investment guide explains the essentials of investing, as well as describing how the financial markets really work.

Stop guessing with your money. If you have ever felt uncertain about which shares to pick or how to navigate volatile markets, this book is for you. Learn how to invest with clarity and confidence using evidence, not intuition, and gain a clear roadmap for building a portfolio that suits your goals and risk appetite.

• Investment basics made clear: Understand markets, assets, and the real purpose of investors.

• Company analysis toolkit: Decode accounts and ratios for smarter share selection.

• Portfolio construction guide: Balance risk and return to reach long-term goals.

• Updated rules and examples: Apply current regulations, ESG insights, and real Financial Times cases.

• Active-investor perspective: Learn methods Glen Arnold uses in his own multi-million portfolio.

• Step-by-step format: Follow practical checklists that turn knowledge into confident action.
  The Financial Times Guide to Investing, 5th Edition , by veteran investor Glen Arnold, combines academic rigor with street-level experience, offering credibility few rivals match.

  Structured in four parts, the guide moves from fundamentals to advanced portfolio management. Clear charts, fresh FT articles, and updated regulations keep every concept current. Arnolds conversational tone removes fear while preserving analytical depth.

  Finish the book able to spot solid businesses, avoid common traps, and build a portfolio that fits your goals and risk tolerance. Your decisions will shift from emotional guesses to disciplined, evidence-based choices.

  Ideal for individual or early-career professional investors who want a single, comprehensive reference they will consult for years.

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Glen Arnold is a former finance professor and full-time investor known for turning theory into profitable action. With decades of market research and hands-on portfolio management, Glen brings clarity, honesty, and real numbers to every page. He extracts deep investing expertise into practical guidance that helps readers protect capital and grow wealth. 

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The definitive introduction to the art of successful stock market investing

This bestselling investing bible debunks the myth that only the wealthy can afford to buy shares and shows you how you can be just as successful trading on your own as you would be employing a fund manager. Youll discover that investing can be both profitable and fun and have the key tools and understanding you need to help you build a successful personal portfolio.

Bestselling author Glen Arnold covers the basics of what investors do and why companies need them, through to the practicalities of buying and selling shares and how to make the most from your money.

• Understand different types of investment vehicles
• Discover tools needed to build a successful portfolio

• Find out how to analyse companies with a view to investment, understanding their accounts, and measuring their performance and risk
  The fifth edition of this investing classic has been thoroughly updated to bring the book up-to-date with the latest rules and regulations, with fresh examples, Financial Times articles and links to further guidance throughout.

  Inhalt

  PART I INVESTMENT BASICS

1. What is investment?
2. The rewards of investment
3. Stock markets

4. Buying and selling shares
   PART II THE INVESTMENT SPECTRUM

5. Pooled investments
6. Bonds
7. Unusual share investment
8. Options
9. Futures

10. Spread betting, contracts for difference and warrants
    PART III COMPANY ANALYSIS

11. Company accounts
12. Key investment ratios and measures
13. Some of the tricks of the accounting trade
14. Analysing industries

15. The competitive position of the firm
    PART IV MANAGING YOUR PORTFOLIO

16. Companies issuing shares.
17. Taxation and investors

18. Mergers and takeovers

19. Investor protection
20. Measuring performance: indices and risk
21. Investment clubs