Getting Started in Shares

by Peter Temple

This is a guide for individual investors who need to understand equities environments and investing profitably in shares. The book explains why shares exist, how they work, and how they can benefit the investor. It includes: a European view of investment in shares; computer aided investment - how to track your portfolio and its performance; on-line investors, shares and the Internet - analyzes opportunties for downloading investment software and prices, corporate and official information via email, investment groups and World Wide Web sites; and a guide to trading tactics and assembling a designer portfolio for individual investors.

314 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

About the author

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Peter Temple has been involved in the City and its Financial Markets for nearly thirty-five years as a Fund Manager, an Investment Analyst and, for the last 17 years, as a Freelance Financial Journalist. He is a regular contributor to a number of publications including the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle, and Interactive Investor, and has written more than a dozen investment books. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute. He and his wife, who works as his researcher, live and work in a converted water mill in the English Lake District.