Smarter Stock Picking : Using Strategies from the Professionals to Improve Your Returns

by Stevenson, David

• ISBN13: 9780273727811
• ISBN10: 0273727818
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-10
• Publisher: FT Press

Summary

Want to achieve an out-performance of the market? Let the knowledge in this book help you determine what to buy. bull; bull;Understand The risks involved in picking stocks. bull;Learn about the quantitative measures used in filtering stocks. bull;Learn how the leading names deploy market screening strategies. Investors are faced with a huge choice in the markets - there's an endless supply of potential shares to buy. The necessary 'filtering' (doing searches of markets and looking for shares that are undervalued or key fundamentals) requires investors to get smart and to use rigorously tested stock selection strategies, frequently devised by the great investing heroes themselves. Much of this filtering or screening involves using a combination of quantitative measures. These strategies have been tested and although many of them do produce the results, The investor still needs to undestand how to use them And The risks involved. This is where Smarter Stock Picking comes in. it pulls together all the different market screening strategies, showing you how it's done by leading names, To produce the definitive guide for stock selection For The smarter investor.

Author Biography

David Stevenson is a columnist for the FT Weekend edition, and writes the Adventurous Investor section which is about everything from investing in Mongolia through to using ETFs in your portfolio. He’s also a columnist for the Investors Chronicle (based around his SIPP) and before that was a columnist for Citywire. David writes extensively about ETFs for the IC and the Financial Times and is currently developing a series of Master Portfolios for the IC.

David also runs a media company and has online broadcasts called The Four Wise Monkeys - http://www.4wm.co.uk/ ..

Table of Contents

About the author	p. viii
Publisher's acknowledgements	p. ix
Stock picking strategies: the context
Introduction	p. 3
The measures	p. 25
The theory: efficient and not so efficient markets	p. 60
Dividends: back to the source	p. 99
Deep value investing: the world according to Tweedy, Browne and Graham	p. 131
Quality and growth… of wide moats and GARP	p. 181
All out for growth: small caps and the momentum effect	p. 234
Putting it into practice
How to investigate a company	p. 277
Shooting stars	p. 305
The ShareMaestro system	p. 317
Using ShareScope and Investor Ease	p. 334
The new fundamental indexing revolution	p. 381
Putting it all together
An action plan	p. 409
Appendices
Valuing markets - Market timing systems	p. 449
The tools of the trade	p. 466
Index	p. 477
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