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Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market
With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build and manage a portfolio of investments that's flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside you'll find a wealth of strategies and techniques to help you take your investments to the next level. Lean to track and predict volatility; hedge your exposure by going long and short; use strategies like arbitrage, relative value and pairs trading; and dip into distressed assets, options, derivatives, spread betting and much more.
Techniques and strategies covered include:
Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gains on very volatile markets
Hedging exposure and going long and short
Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences between markets)
Pairs trading
Relative value strategies
Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream that may have long-term value)
Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering better earnings than predicted by analysts)
Options and derivatives
Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economic cycles)
Contents
Introduction 1 Part I: It's All about Portfolios 7
Chapter 1: Introducing Great Opportunities for Advanced Investors 9
Chapter 2: Assessing Risk: Deciding What Kind of Investor You Are 25
Part II: Picking the Strategies for You 43
Chapter 3: Grasping Basic Hedge-Fund Strategies 45
Chapter 4: Dealing with Volatility and Economic Cycles 63
Chapter 5: Digging Deeper into Alternative Assets: Commodities and Currencies 91
Chapter 6: Assessing the Hedge-Fund Industry: Don't Believe the Hype 111
Part III: Thinking and Acting Like a Hedgie: Simple Strategies You Can Employ Yourself 129
Chapter 7: Selling What You Don't Own: Short Selling 131
Chapter 8: Understanding Arbitrage: Big Name, Simple Idea 149
Chapter 9: Weighing Up Growth Versus Value Investing 165
Chapter 10: Gearing up to Use Leverage 187
Chapter 11: Stepping into Structured Investments 197
Chapter 12: Benefitting from Shareholder Activism 211
Part IV: Delving into More Specialist Techniques (with a Little Help) 229
Chapter 13: Advanced Investing in Commodities: Sharks and Rocket Scientists 231
Chapter 14: Investing in Emerging-Market Equities and Currencies 253
Chapter 15: Investing Macro Style: Seeing the Big Picture 269
Part V: Tools of the Trade: Useful Instruments 295
Chapter 16: Following Indices: Exchange-Traded Funds and Other Trackers 297
Chapter 17: Taking a Punt on the Financial Markets 325
Part VI: The Part of Tens 339
Chapter 18: Ten Top Tips to Protect Your Stash 341
Chapter 19: Ten Hedge-Fund Style Techniques to Grow Your Wealth 347
Index 353
