Investing Against the Tide: Lessons from a Life Running Money
In Investing Against the Tide, Anthony Bolton tells the story of his contrarian approach to managing money. He provides invaluable lessons on the factors that really matter when investing: how to pick a stock, the need to identify good managers, how to run a portfolio, the importance of value investing, reading charts and how to trade successfully.
In this account of financial accomplishment, Bolton reveals the secrets of his success. It's not easy constantly to buy low and sell high and this book gives clear directions for doing well in the stock market, and doing well consistently. Chapter by chapter Investing Against the Tide shows you how to make the right decisions at the right time and featured key lessons show you how you really can learn from a life running money.
Table of Content
Part I: Principles and practices from a life running money
- Companies – what makes a good one, and how to work with them
- Management – integrity and openness
- Shares – looking at them and buying them
- How to behave as an investor
- How to hold and develop a portfolio
- Finance, risks and balance sheets
- Valuations, value growth, recovery and other favourite
- Mergers, acquisitions and why it’s good to have your shares bought out
- Trading and how to do it
- Technical information and the importance of charts
- Information and where to find it
- The importance of brokers
- How the markets really work
- Some Observations on Performance
- What makes a Good Fund Manager?
Part II: Experiences and reflections from a life running money
- Some memorable company meetings
- Some of my best and worst investments
- How the industry has changes
- Some thoughts on the future of investment management
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Salient Features
- Written bythe UK’s most successful stock market investor and best-known fund manager
- Offers amateur investors a chance to learn the strategies of one of the sharpest professional minds, through both his successes (Nokia) and failures (Polly Peck)
- Includes a mix of practical advice and insight into well-known companies
- Boxed tips throughout the book show you how to learn lessons you can really put into practice.
- The current economic climate makes a perfect market for Bolton’s contrarian investing strategies
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