The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide

by David Berger (Author), David Berger (Author), James Carlisle (Author), Tom Gardner (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  'If you read only one book about personal finance, make it this one' - Mail On Sunday. 'This book is geared entirely to the UK market and it is difficult to see how anyone could fail to benefit' - Mail on Sunday . Scared of shares? Baffled by brokers? Intimated by ISAs? Don't panic - the Fools can help! In this no-nonsense guide, the Motley Fools show you how to invest your money wisely for a profitable future. If your idea of investment begins and ends with a savings account at a building society, then this is the book for you. Using practical examples and with their usual off-the-wall style, the Fools cut through financial jargon and take you through the basics of investing. The Foolish book will show you how to: sort out your personal finances; decide on your investment objectives; choose companies to invest in; and interpret the numbers in a company report. With advice delivered in plain English, and prepared with humour and mind-boggling facts, this book provides the bricks with which to build a secure financial future. Bruce Jackson and David Berger co-founded the Motley Fool UK in 1997. The highly acclaimed Motley Fool UK website has won the New Media Age 1999 'Best Finance Site', Creative Freedom Awards 1999 'Best Electronic Media', the Net Magazine Award 2000 'Best Finance Site' and Investor's Week 2001 People's Choice Award.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  Have you ever felt intimated by your finances? Anxious that you're not really in control? Don't worry - the Fools are here!

  Since going on line in 1994, The Motley Fool has been helping the wired investor soar to long-term wealth with its own brand of humour and savvy investing sense. Since 1997, The Motley Fool UK has been spreading Foolishness far and wide in the Bristish Isles. In the best-selling Motley Fool Uk Investment Guide, Chief British Fool David Berger and founding brothers David and Tom Gardner show novice investor and expert alike how to take full control of their investing futures, and how to have fun doing it.

  The Foolish guide will show you, among other things:

  - Why you need to invest

  - The awesome power of compound invest

  - How to beat the professionals at their own game

  - The pitfalls of financial advisors, pensions and endowments

  - Simple ways to select shares

  - Why you need to be online

  A firm favourite amoung investors since its first edition, this book avoids the obsure jargon so beloved of financial professionals. Now completely revised and updated, it will change the way you deal with your money.

  'Don't be fooled. This lot are using the internet to rewrite the rules of investment.' The Scotsman

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