Fast Money E-Book

Jimmy B. Prince

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 82

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Do your finances control you? Frustrate you? Limit you? Well take control of your money today and get more of what you want from life. Bestselling author, Jimmy B. Prince guides you through the ins and out of investing in and profiting from shares. Fast Money: Succeed with Shares is a jargon-free, practical guide that will get you confidently investing in the share market and on the road to financial freedom, fast!

Leseprobe

Succeed with Shares

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Making money on the sharemarket

Cashing in your chips: highly liquid

Adding to the pile: investing small amounts

Counting your money: prices published daily

Rolling in dough: receiving a dividend

Making easy money: capital growth

No annoying charges: no holding costs

The risks you need to take

Investing in derivatives

Exchange-traded options

Warrants

Contracts for difference: playing two-up

Chapter 2: How to buy and sell shares

Back to basics

Contacting a stockbroker

Buying and selling your shares

Buying shares

Selling shares

Chapter 3: Taxing your share transactions

Taxing your dividends

Dividend reinvestment plan

Capital gains tax: the rules you had to have

How to calculate a capital gain

How to calculate a capital loss

Selling different parcels in same company

Claiming a tax deduction

Borrowing to buy shares

Chapter 4: Building a quality share portfolio

The rules you need to follow

Narrowing down your choices

Analysing a company

Core business

Competition

Management team

Company profits

Dividend policy

Major shareholders

Stockbroker recommendations

Chapter 5: Doing your sums: understanding share ratios

Company’s dividend policy

Dividend yield

Grossed-up dividend yield

Dividend cover

Dividend payout

Company’s financial stability

Earnings per share (EPS)

Price/earnings ratio (P/E ratio)

Return on shareholder’s equity (ROE)

Net tangible assets (NTA)

Price to net tangible assets (P/NTA)

Interest cover

Debt-to-equity ratio

About the Author

Further Reading

Chapter 1: Making money on the sharemarket

As share prices can fluctuate daily the anxiety that you could lose money is a constant feeling you may experience. Sure you can drop a bundle if share prices plunge. But you can also make heaps if they rise. Provided you do your homework and invest sensibly, owning shares can be a very rewarding and lucrative way of building up your wealth. In this chapter I chat about the basics, and explain that investing in the sharemarket is not all doom and gloom. I also chat about the different ways you can invest in shares.