The Stock Picker: A financial history from the sharp end
Paul Mumford is a noted stock-picker with over 50 years’ experience in the markets - first as a stock broker and then as a star fund manager. In The Stock Picker, Mumford takes a deeply personal look back at his time investing: exploring not only the secrets of his successful approach to the markets and how to find great shares but reminiscing about the changes that have taken place in the investing world since the early 1960s.

This book is not an investing how-to: instead it is a financial history straight from the horse’s mouth. While there is much for investors to learn from, it is an also evocative window into a vanished City of stock jobbers, messenger boys, luncheon vouchers and ledger-keepers - not to mention financial crises, booms and busts, and the life and death of companies great and small.

Mumford also covers how his own personal life has influenced his stock-picking approach: from running his own bookmaking business as a schoolboy to an ill-fated attempt at oil painting at night school (not to mention the vibrant music scene of the late 1950s).

The Stock Picker is a charming and readable autobiography that pulls no punches - ideal for any investor interested in what has made a leading fund manager tick, or who simply wants to spend some time nostalgically looking back at how the investing and wider world has changed over the years.

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The Stock Picker: A financial history from the sharp end
Paul Mumford is a noted stock-picker with over 50 years’ experience in the markets - first as a stock broker and then as a star fund manager. In The Stock Picker, Mumford takes a deeply personal look back at his time investing: exploring not only the secrets of his successful approach to the markets and how to find great shares but reminiscing about the changes that have taken place in the investing world since the early 1960s.

This book is not an investing how-to: instead it is a financial history straight from the horse’s mouth. While there is much for investors to learn from, it is an also evocative window into a vanished City of stock jobbers, messenger boys, luncheon vouchers and ledger-keepers - not to mention financial crises, booms and busts, and the life and death of companies great and small.

Mumford also covers how his own personal life has influenced his stock-picking approach: from running his own bookmaking business as a schoolboy to an ill-fated attempt at oil painting at night school (not to mention the vibrant music scene of the late 1950s).

The Stock Picker is a charming and readable autobiography that pulls no punches - ideal for any investor interested in what has made a leading fund manager tick, or who simply wants to spend some time nostalgically looking back at how the investing and wider world has changed over the years.

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The Stock Picker: A financial history from the sharp end

The Stock Picker: A financial history from the sharp end

by Paul Mumford
The Stock Picker: A financial history from the sharp end

The Stock Picker: A financial history from the sharp end

by Paul Mumford

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Overview

Paul Mumford is a noted stock-picker with over 50 years’ experience in the markets - first as a stock broker and then as a star fund manager. In The Stock Picker, Mumford takes a deeply personal look back at his time investing: exploring not only the secrets of his successful approach to the markets and how to find great shares but reminiscing about the changes that have taken place in the investing world since the early 1960s.

This book is not an investing how-to: instead it is a financial history straight from the horse’s mouth. While there is much for investors to learn from, it is an also evocative window into a vanished City of stock jobbers, messenger boys, luncheon vouchers and ledger-keepers - not to mention financial crises, booms and busts, and the life and death of companies great and small.

Mumford also covers how his own personal life has influenced his stock-picking approach: from running his own bookmaking business as a schoolboy to an ill-fated attempt at oil painting at night school (not to mention the vibrant music scene of the late 1950s).

The Stock Picker is a charming and readable autobiography that pulls no punches - ideal for any investor interested in what has made a leading fund manager tick, or who simply wants to spend some time nostalgically looking back at how the investing and wider world has changed over the years.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857195548
Publisher: Harriman House
Publication date: 11/14/2016
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Paul Mumford is one of the longest-serving fund managers in the UK, with 50 years' experience in the markets as a stockbroker and fund manager. He currently runs the TM Cavendish Opportunities Fund and the TM AIM Fund, having launched the first in 1988 as the Glenfriars Opportunities Fund. He is a stock picker who aims to find shares in undervalued companies and often ends up swimming against the tide and buying unloved shares. Paul has three daughters and two granddaughters. His outside interests include bridge - he has obtained the rank of Life Master - supporting live music at local venues, and following two football teams as a season ticket holder.

Table of Contents

About the Author ix

Acknowledgements x

Introduction 1

Part I School Days and the Stockbroker Years 3

1 Bleak Prospects 5

2 Animals in the Zoo 17

3 Under Starter's Orders 27

4 Gigs, Gee-Gees and Trees 39

5 Boom Boom 49

6 What on Earth is Going on? 61

7 The Final Throw 73

Part II The Fund Management Years 85

8 The Start of the Journey 87

9 Cavendish Opportunities Fund - The Early Years 97

10 Dotcom and Millennium Bug 111

11 Lose Some, Win Some 123

12 "Whoops" 135

13 'Baggers' 145

Part III Putting It Together 159

14 Processes 161

15 Horses for Courses 173

16 Big is Beautiful? 187

17 Ten Years of Train Crashes 199

18 Hitting the Buffers 211

19 AIM Moves into the Picture 225

20 More Down the Plug 'Ole 241

21 The Zookeeper and the Penguins 255

22 Footie not FTSE 263

23 Other Distractions 273

Index 285

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