Essential Investment

In the past two decades the investment world became increasingly sophisticated as new products were created and new faster ways of selling them were established. The technology boom of the 1990s drew thousands into investments that they would never previously have contemplated. The collapse in stock prices since the dotcom bubble burst, and the raft of corporate scandals that came to light soon after, have shown just how important it is to have a good understanding of the way the investment world works. Essential Investment will help provide that understanding, with entries that stretch from A to Z and cover such concepts and terms as: Advance-decline line, Arbitrage, Bear squeeze, Bottom fishing, Capital asset pricing model, Covariance, Dividend yield, Dow theory, Efficient frontier, Equity risk premium, Fibonacci numbers, Floating-rate note, Gann theory, Golden cross, Hedge ratio, Indifference curve, Japanese candlesticks, Kondratief cycle, LIFFE, Mark to market, Noise trader, Odd-lot theory, Portfolio theory, Price-to-book ratio, Qualitative analysis, Random walk, Security analysis, Straddle, Tobin's Q, Trading collar, Unsystematic risk, Volatility, Warrant, Yield gap, and Zero coupon bond.Also included are appendices on the performance of different stock markets over time, bond returns, leading equity markets, investment formulas and recommended reading.