Smarter Stock Picking: Using Strategies From the Professionals to Improve Your Returns (Financial Times Series) - Softcover

Stevenson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273727818 ISBN 13: 9780273727811

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2010

Synopsis

How do the world’s most successful investors achieve an out-performance of the market? What helps them determine what stocks to buy?

For decades famous – and not so famous – investors have been using a variety of strategies to screen the market and narrow down potential shares.  Analysis shows that it’s more lucrative to focus on a set of shares with defined characteristics than to invest across a wide variety of markets. Smarter Stock Picking walks you through the key screening techniques that will enable you to make discriminating  and intelligent share choices.

 

Over the long term, stocks and shares have proven themselves to be one of the best investments available. Despite some risks, they beat both bonds and cash.

 

But what’s the most effective way to ensure that you’re using the best strategies to buy the best shares?

 

Using proven research based studies, Smarter Stock Picking walks you through each screening technique and shows you how to deploy key strategies that will help you successfully pick the right stocks so that you can get the right returns.  Drawing on a range of ideas and theories from classic value investing through to popular momentum based strategies it explains the thinking and the actual measures used, and will help you develop your own strategies.

 

Smarter Stock Pickingincludes:

 

• The Measures

• The Theory

• Dividends...Back to the Source

• Deep Value Investing...The world according to Tweedy, Browne and Graham

• Quality and Growth...of wide moats and GARP

• All Out for Growth – small caps and the momentum effect

• Putting it into Practice : How an Investor Investigates a Company by Paul Darrall Dolman

• Putting it Into Practice : Shooting Stars by John Mulligan

• Putting it into Practice : The Share Maestro System by Glenn Martin

• Putting it into Practice : Using Sharescope and InvestorEase

• Putting it into Practice : Fundamental Indexing

• What really works

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'A triumph for optimists. David shows that the age of equity is far from over, and that stock picking is a worthwhile exercise when done properly.'

Jonathan Eley, Editor, Investors Chronicle

 

How do the world’s most successful investors achieve an out-performance of the market? What helps them determine what stocks to buy?

For decades, successful investors have been using a variety of strategies to screen the markets so that they can filter out the best shares to buy. And trading analysis shows that it’s more lucrative to focus on a set of shares with defined characteristics than to invest across a wide variety of markets.

Drawing on a range of ideas and theories, from classic value investing through to popular momentum-based strategies, Smarter Stock Picking walks you through key screening and filtering tactics that will enable you to make discriminating and intelligent share choices. 

 

About the Author:

David Stevenson is a columnist for the FT Weekend edition, and writes the Adventurous Investor section which is about everything from investing in Mongolia through to using ETFs in your portfolio. He’s also a columnist for the Investors Chronicle (based around his SIPP) and before that was a columnist for Citywire. David writes extensively about ETFs for the IC and the Financial Times and is currently developing a series of Master Portfolios for the IC.

David also runs a media company and has online broadcasts called The Four Wise Monkeys - http://www.4wm.co.uk/ ..

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0273727818
• ISBN 13: 9780273727811
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496