How the Stock Market Works: A Beginner's Guide to Investment

How the Stock Market Works: A Beginner's Guide to Investment

by Michael Becket
How the Stock Market Works: A Beginner's Guide to Investment

How the Stock Market Works: A Beginner's Guide to Investment

by Michael Becket

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Overview

Do you want to understand investing but are not sure where to start? Get to grips with everything you need to know about the UK's investment and financial markets with this bestselling guide.

Knowing how to invest can feel overwhelming. How the Stock Market Works gives you concise and practical information breaking down complex jargon, so you can get started. Economic uncertainty and rapidly changing global events can have a significant impact on your investments, pension and retirement. It's all the more important to truly grasp how the financial markets work so you can make informed decisions about your personal finances.

This fully updated bestselling eighth edition of How the Stock Market Works provides you with all the tools needed to understand investing with new sections on ethical investing, emerging markets, trends in the bond market and the UK's place in the global economy post-Brexit. Starting the basics of shares, bonds, gilts and derivatives, this guide explains how to find reliable advice, the tricks of the professionals and how and when to trade in shares, so you take control of your investments and future.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398618480
Publisher: Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date: 03/25/2025
Edition description: 8th ed.
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Becket is an experienced financial journalist. He was previously the City news editor and small business editor of The Daily Telegraph and has written for numerous publications including The Spectator, Accountancy Age and Money. He has lectured at the University of Manchester, Cranfield Universityand City, University of London. He is the author of multiple books.

Table of Contents

* Section - 01: What and why are shares?; * Section - 02: How to pick a share; * Section - 03: Pooled investments; * Section - 04: What are bonds and gilts?; * Section - 05: The complicated world of derivatives; * Section - 06: Tricks of the professionals; * Section - 07: Where to find advice and information; * Section - 08: What does it take to deal in shares?; * Section - 09: How to trade in shares; * Section - 10: When to deal in shares; * Section - 11: Consequences of being a shareholder; * Section - 12: Tax.

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...[A] fine pick for business and personal finance collections." —Midwest Book Review

"This book cuts through the institutions' mystique with basic information for the amateur... covers all the important issues and takes a sceptical swipe at the pretentious jargon employed by the so-called experts." —Industry

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