Shares Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market - Softcover

Hobson, Rodney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905641451 ISBN 13: 9781905641451

Publisher: Harriman House, 2007

Synopsis

At last a book that champions the small investor, the growing bank of potential shareholders who have cash to spare but fear entering the jungle that is the City of London. "Shares Made Simple", written by highly respected financial journalist Rodney Hobson, tears away the mystique and jargon that surrounds the stock market. It takes you step by step through the most basic concepts of stock market investing, carefully explaining issues such as: What shares are and how they are bought and sold; Why share prices go up and down; and, Why some companies' shares look cheap while others appear to be expensive - the hidden traps for the unwary. This book sets out to create a level playing field between the stock market professionals and the small investor. As rising living standards and inherited cash provide assets for investment, no-one needs to suffer pitiful bank interest rates when there is real money to be made in sharing the nation's wealth.

About this title

About the Author

Rodney Hobson is an experienced financial journalist who has held senior editorial positions with publications in the UK and Asia and is currently Editor of Ipreo, an international financial services group.

Among posts he has held are News Editor for the Business section of The Times, Business Editor of the Singapore Monitor, Deputy Business Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Head of News at Citywire and Editor of Shares magazine. He has also contributed to the Daily Mail, the Independent and Business Franchise Magazine.

Rodney is the author of financial titles Shares Made Simple, now in its second edition, Small Companies, Big Profits, Understanding Company News, How to Build a Share Portfolio and The Dividend Investor. He also writes the Detective Inspector Paul Amos Lincolnshire Mystery series of book (Dead Money, and Unlikely Graves).

He is registered as a Representative with the Financial Services Authority.

Rodney is married with one daughter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harriman House
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905641451
• ISBN 13: 9781905641451
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212