The Investor S Guidebook To Equities

A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook to understanding equity investments. This authoritative guide provides all the information that both the professional and individual investor will need to succeed in today’s equity market, including: • The role that equities play in a company's capital structure and in a portfolio • Determining and optimizing a company's weighted average cost of capital • The role of preferred stock within a company's capital structure • The various types of preferred stock • How new stocks are issued • The top ten equity strategies • Alternative ways to obtain equity exposures [box] The Investor’s Guidebook series presents investment vehicles and strategies from both the issuers’ and the investors’ perspectives. Starting with basic concepts and then building to state of the art pricing models, strategies, and tactics, these succinct handbooks will be useful for everyone from new hires through experienced professionals. Unlike most books, which are read once and sit on the shelf, professionals will refer to these books repeatedly throughout their careers. [end box] A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook to understanding equity investments.

A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook that addresses the practical aspects of investing in fixed income investments The Investor’s Guidebook series presents investment vehicles and strategies from both the issuers’ and the investors’ perspectives. Starting with basic concepts and then building to state-of-the-art pricing models, strategies, and tactics, these succinct handbooks will be useful for everyone from new hires through experienced professionals. Unlike most books, which are read once and sit on the shelf, professionals will refer to these books repeatedly throughout their careers.

A concise yet comprehensive guidebook that addresses the practical aspects of investing in derivatives. Written for the professional market but accessible enough for individual investors, The Investor’s Guidebook to Derivatives includes all the information needed to succeed in today’s complex derivatives market, including: • What constitutes a “derivative instrument” • The difference between forward and forecast prices • Pricing and using forward contracts • Swaps: pricing and applications • Option vocabulary • Pricing options—a framework • Implementing directional and volatility strategies • Exotic options: pricing and applications • Options on natural occurrences: rain, snow, and wind The Investor’s Guidebook series presents investment vehicles and strategies from both the issuers’ and the investors’ perspectives. Starting with basic concepts and then building to state-of-the-art pricing models, strategies, and tactics, these succinct handbooks will be useful for everyone from new hires through experienced professionals. Unlike most books, which are read once and sit on the shelf, professionals will refer to these books repeatedly throughout their careers.

Inside Private Equity explores the complexities of this asset class and introduces new methodologies that connect investment returns with wealth creation. By providing straightforward examples, it demystifies traditional measures like the IRR and challenges many of the common assumptions about this asset class. Readers take away a set of practical measures that empower them to better manage their portfolios.

In "42 Rules of Sensible Investing (2nd Edition)", Leon Shirman shares his practical insights on personal investment strategies and philosophies, and on picking winning stocks. These views are heavily influenced by successful long-term approaches used by modern investing legends, such as Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. The book provides a checklist of concise, practical, and sensible rules that are indispensable in assessing investment ideas. You will read about investing principles that can be used to evaluate your portfolio and immediately implement changes if necessary. Some rules are common sense advice. Some you may have already heard about. And some could definitely cause controversy: Why index funds perform better than most other actively managed funds How diversification can sometimes be a bad idea Why long term, investing in stocks is less risky than in bonds or bills Why it makes sense to stay invested at all times How simple process of stock picking is better than a complex one

When it comes to investment opportunities, there are quite a few that you are able to choose from. Some like to go with real estate, their savings accounts, retirement, or starting their own business. Each investment type is going to require different kinds of work and some will have higher risks than the others. Often it is a personal preference in what you would like to do with your time and how quickly you would like to earn money compared to how much you could lose in the game. But one of the best options for investing that can yield a lot of money if you stick with it is stock market investing. Stock market investing has gotten a bad name in recent times. Some investors who didn't understand the strategies needed for this kind of investing would do a bad job and end up losing everything. This guidebook is going to show you the proper way to invest your money in the stock market so that you are able to actually make a good profit and put your money to work for you. Some of the things that you will learn about stock market investing in this book include: The fundamentals of the stock market Different types of investments in the stock market Picking the right financial advisor How to pick the best investments How to buy, sell, and own stocks Why diversification of your portfolio is so important. The stock market can be one of the best investments that you make in your life as long as you understand how the system works, do your research, and pick the right stocks. This guidebook has all the information that you need to make the stock market work for you!