Getting Started in Shares For Dummies

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Getting Started in Shares For Dummies®, 2nd Australian Edition......Page 1 Contents at a Glance......Page 13 Table of Contents......Page 15 Introduction......Page 21 About This Book......Page 22 How This Book Is Organised......Page 24 Icons Used in This Book......Page 25 Where to Go from Here......Page 26 Part I: Putting the Share in Sharemarket......Page 27 Investing Is All about Timing......Page 29 Finding Out What a Share Is......Page 33 Buying Shares to Get a Return......Page 36 Making the Most of Share Investing......Page 38 Guarding Against Risk......Page 40 Floating: The Primary Market......Page 45 Planning the Prospectus......Page 49 Trading: The Secondary Market......Page 50 Using the Index......Page 52 Stepping Into the Futures Market......Page 57 Part II: Investing Strategies for Success......Page 59 Chapter 3: Developing an Investment Strategy......Page 61 Getting Rich Slowly......Page 62 Starting with Strategy......Page 68 Buying and Holding......Page 71 Chapter 4: Assessing Your Risk......Page 75 Gambling or Investing?......Page 76 Assessing Your Risk......Page 80 Avoiding the Turkeys......Page 99 Chapter 5: Eggs and Baskets......Page 103 Spreading the Risk......Page 104 Building a Portfolio......Page 110 Knowing How Many Stocks to Buy......Page 112 Diversifying through Managed Funds......Page 120 Investing outside Australia......Page 124 Part III: Buying, Buying, Sold......Page 127 Chapter 6: Buying and Selling Shares......Page 129 Finding the Market......Page 130 Making a Trade......Page 134 Working the Trading Day......Page 138 Playing CHESS Isn’t a Game......Page 142 Getting Ready for the Action......Page 145 Going into Analysis......Page 150 Investing or Trading......Page 155 Relying on Your Broker......Page 159 Looking and Listening......Page 162 Taxing Considerations......Page 164 Acquiring Ordinary Shares......Page 165 Finding Specialised Stocks......Page 190 Deciding What to Buy......Page 195 What a Broker Does......Page 201 Stockbroking for Everyone......Page 202 Choosing the Best Broker for You......Page 206 Interviewing for a Broker......Page 209 Benefiting from Dividend Imputation......Page 215 Watching Your Capital Gains......Page 220 Taxing Tactics......Page 222 Part IV: The Part of Tens......Page 231 Warren Buffett and Charles Munger......Page 233 John Neff......Page 236 Benjamin Graham......Page 237 Philip Fisher......Page 239 Jim Slater......Page 240 Charles Viertel......Page 242 Peter Lynch......Page 243 John Templeton......Page 244 Don’t Think You Can Get Rich Quick......Page 247 Don’t Underestimate Volatility......Page 248 Don’t Be Panicked Out of Your Shares......Page 249 Don’t Buy a Share You Know Nothing About......Page 250 Don’t Delay a Sale to Save Capital Gains Tax......Page 251 Don’t Let Tax Drive Your Investment Decisions......Page 252 Don’t Let Yourself Be Churned......Page 253 Index......Page 255