How to Understand the Financial Pages
Endorsed By: The Times
How to Understand the Financial Pages is an informative and accessible reference guide to the terms and jargon that fill the pages of the financial press - from bonds and shares, to hedge funds and alternative investments, and to depositary receipts and bonds.
The only basic guide to the financial media that you will ever need. This new edition of How to Understand the Financial Pages provides comprehensive coverage of newspapers and magazines, and also financial websites, stockbrokers' research and company reports.
The handy A–Z format enables you to look up entries quickly and easily. Essential terms and concepts are explained in non-technical English, and it is extensively cross-referenced. A valuable reference tool for any private investor, it is international in scope and includes references to the use of technical analysis in internet trading, the development of hedge funds and other alternative investments, and the growth of financial services regulation and compliance — something other guides often omit.
Journalistic, snappy and stylish, it will help you to read the financial pages and gain a full understanding of the concepts involved.
REVIEWS :“A jargon-busting guide that aims to translate difficult financial
terms into simple language…provides practical and accessible advice in a
friendly and sometimes irreverent tone.”
Mortgage Advisor & Home Buyer
“Bursting with clearly written need-to-know help on investment
terms and financial jargon.”
What Mortgage
“Covers everything from Analysts to Z-score and its truly
comprehensive, providing easy-to-read descriptions of topics as diverse
as ‘parabolic system’ and ‘ten bagger’”.
Securities & Investment Review
“Offers a crash course, allowing you to track your investments
daily and have meaningful discussions with your financial advisors
without getting bogged down in theory…Having this reference book close
to hand helps cut through the hyperbole until terms like ‘Bollinger
band’ and ‘moving strike option’ become second nature.”
Business Edge
“A welcome aid to translation… anything that helps us understand
what the financial whiz-kids are up to with my cash is a good thing in
my book.”
Birmingham Evening Mail
Paperback, 384 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 153 MM Language English.
Alexander Davidson is a leading financial journalist who has written widely for the national press. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling How to Win in a Volatile Stock Market and How to Understand the Financial Pages, both published by Kogan Page. Alexander may be contacted via his Web site at www.flexinvest.co.uk.