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Empowered Investor: Manage Your Investments the Way the Professionals Do (Financial Times Series)
 
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Empowered Investor: Manage Your Investments the Way the Professionals Do (Financial Times Series) (Paperback)

by Mark Harrison (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall (28 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 027365943X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0273659433
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,101,206 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"Information is the key to successful investing. Knowing how to access the right sources is particularly critical in today's marketplace. This book will tell you all you need to know - straightforward and very readable."

Diane Hay, Chief Executive, Proshare

 

"Professional investors are consistent and rigorous in their approach to making investment decisions, but the range of tools on the Internet now allow private investors to follow the same rules and disciplines. 'The Empowered Investor' will help private investors to graduate from being a reactive stock picker to a proactive investment professional. Anyone who has ever bought a stock based on a Sunday Newspaper tip should read this book!"

 

Martin Spencer, Managing Director, The RiskMetrics Group.

 



Product Description

The Empowered Investor tackles the opportunities of picking winners and building a personal portfolio.  It advocates the need for intelligent portfolio trading to ensure long-term success and illustrates how to use top investing techniques and tools, including the Nobel-prize winning Modern Portfolio Theory.  Mark Harrison provides a simple guide to tracking down and manipulating the right information, and using it to secure investment success.

The Empowered Investor:

  • Exposes the way information flows around the stock market
  • Teaches you how to use the toolkits of analysis as efficiently as any expert
  • Shows you how to build a winning portfolio as effectively as the professionals
  • Examines how great investors built huge fortunes in hazardous markets
  • Illustrates how to spot the next bubble and dodge the next crash
  • Explores which web tools you really need to succeed
  • Includes three fully researched model portfolios.
Filled with practical step-by-step guides and enlightening case studies, The Empowered Investor is essential reading for investors wanting to build a winning portfolio using the most effective professional techniques as well as for disillusioned daytraders looking for another path to riches. 

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Top Marks for "The Empowered Investor", 13 Nov 2002
By Colin D. Bartlett "desertfox999" (Milton Keynes) - See all my reviews
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This book will appeal to those starting out on the road to personal investment and the more experienced investor alike. It is a comprehensive guide to investment strategy, well-written and researched by Mark. The chapters are laid out well and supported with clear examples and illustrations from the market. Mark's balanced approach and his carefully constructed dialogue with the reader help the book to achieve its objective - empowerment.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Arm yourself!, 15 Sep 2002
This is an excellent book for the private individual new to investing in the stock market – and a useful quick reference for the more experienced.

Harrison starts off with a reminder of the traditional rules which many experienced investors (including me) have lost a lot of money by forgetting over the last two years - and explains some mystical terms like P/E and EPS – their significance to stock pickers – and how to calculate them yourself.

Also some useful tips on the behavior of people in general (including the investor himself) and the rogues and fools that litter the market in particular. “Never buy on a newspaper tip” and take a hard look at the directors and what they are up to are truths often forgotten in the excitement and panic of getting into the market. He then moves on to expose some common scams, which are a timely warning for the unwary.

Harrison points out the importance of what he calls the “Information wheel” - but fails to tell us how we can beat the now endemic inside dealers who mysteriously always get the information before the rest of us. But then I don’t think there is any answer to that one !

Pointing out (rightly) that most fund managers have done no better than many private investors (and we all have the worthless policies and pension schemes to prove it) he explains how we can use the same tools that they do, now we have online services like Ample iii, etc.

Helpful little black box tip panels highlight the important points throughout the book for “quick dippers”.

“Book value is exactly what it says, just the value in the company’s book of its net assets”. How many of us wish we had remembered that and attached to it the significance it deserves ? And in another, he stops short of pointing out that many companies are run by directors who are just plain crooks, but comments coyly “More frivolous but obvious signs of bad management are corporate excesses.” Yeah ! Tell us about it, Mark !

The quite brief flip across the top of Technical Analysis is probably as much as the new investor wants – and gives enough for anybody to at least be able to use the internet tools available.

The instructive part of the book ends with a fairly detailed study of portfolio building and management, which is a bit of specialty of his. And it is, after all, the “business end” of the project of any investor.

Useful to new investors trying to get a feel for the subject is the section nearly at the end, which describes the history of bubbles (a sore subject with most of us at present) and some of the more famous investors in history together with some of their techniques.

All in all, a first class and easy starting point for the new investor, who would be unwise to go parting with any money until they had armed themselves with the knowledge and wise advice it provides – from somebody who has been there and done it.

Bob Sims (aka Greyfox)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Empowered investing after the crash, 5 Sep 2002
This is an excellent book for the private individual new to investing in the stock market - and a useful quick reference for the more experienced.

Harrison starts off with a reminder of the traditional rules which many experienced investors (including me) have lost a lot of money by forgetting over the last two years - and explains some mystical terms like P/E and EPS - their significance to stock pickers - and how to calculate them yourself.

Also some useful tips on the behavior of people in general (including the investor himself) and the rogues and fools that litter the market in particular. "Never buy on a newspaper tip" and take a hard look at the directors and what they are up to are truths often forgotten in the excitement and panic of getting into the market. He then moves on to expose some common scams, which are a timely warning for the unwary.

Harrison points out the importance of what he calls the "Information wheel" - but fails to tell us how we can beat the now endemic inside dealers who mysteriously always get the information before the rest of us. But then I don't think there is any answer to that one!

Pointing out (rightly) that most fund managers have done no better than many private investors (and we all have the worthless policies and pension schemes to prove it) he explains how we can use the same tools that they do, now we have online services like Ample iii, etc.

Helpful little black box tip panels highlight the important points throughout the book for "quick dippers".

"Book value is exactly what it says, just the value in the company's book of its net assets". How many of us wish we had remembered that and attached to it the significance it deserves ?

And in another, he stops short of pointing out that many companies are run by directors who are just plain crooks, but comments coyly "More frivolous but obvious signs of bad management are corporate excesses." Yeah! Tell us about it, Mark!

The quite brief flip across the top of Technical Analysis is probably as much as the new investor wants - and gives enough for anybody to at least be able to use the internet tools available.

The instructive part of the book ends with a fairly detailed study of portfolio building and management, which is a bit of a specialty of his. And it is, after all, the "business end" of the project of any investor.

Useful to new investors trying to get a feel for the subject is the section nearly at the end, which describes the history of bubbles (a sore subject with most of us at present) and some of the more famous investors in history together with some of their techniques.

All in all, a first class and easy starting point for the new investor, who would be unwise to go parting with any money until they had armed themselves with the knowledge and wise advice it provides - from somebody who has been there and done it.

Bob Sims (aka Greyfox)

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