Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies, UK Edition

Learn to:

• Build and manage a flexible portfolio of investments
• Track and predict volatility and economic cycles
• Use a range of strategies to beat the market
• Understand what kind of investor you are – and tailor your portfolio accordingly

Watch the value of your portfolio grow, in bull, bear and sideways markets alike

The basic building block for any investor should be the humble portfolio; a range of assets held within your stock-broking or investing account. Why? Because when you diversify your portfolio, you reduce risk. Many of the best professional money managers have built successful careers using this approach, looking to a range of asset classes and investment strategies to achieve positive returns in any market. Here David Stevenson shows how you can use many of these strategies in your own portfolio.

• Portfolio management basics – get the lowdown on traditional strategies and the latest techniques for protecting your nest egg while growing your wealth
• Mix it up – discover why asset diversification is the key to creating a winning portfolio and how to find the right mix for you
• Meet the hedgies – learn the basics of how hedge fund managers leverage economic cycles and market volatility
• Invest like a hedgie – start using some of the simpler hedge fund techniques, including going long and short, arbitrage, leveraged investing and more
• Play like the pros – learn to use commodities trading, investing in emerging markets, currency trading and other advanced wealth-building strategies and techniques
• Bet on market moves – make use of spread betting, options trading, ETFs, structured investments and other innovative 'tools of the trade'

Open the book and find:

• Guidance on tailoring a portfolio to your investing style and long-term goals
• Ways to hedge your exposure by going long and short
• Techniques for making short-term gains on very volatile markets
• "Hedgie" strategies, including arbitrage, macro trading, relative value and more
• Tricks for profiting from distressed assets and undervalued companies
• Key indicators of economic trends and how to cash in on them