Peter Temple

After a turbulent three years, equity markets are returning to their historical norm of single digit percentage annual returns. Investors want to continue investing, but are concerned about the risk of doing so. The events of the past two years have heightened this risk aversion. But at the same time new techniques are now available to private investors that allow them to tailor their risk much more precisely, and at the same time to enhance their returns. Options are one way they can do this, but there are other instruments too, including individual stock futures, covered warrants, CFDs, exchange traded funds, and spread betting. This is the first book to set out all the choices open to investors. It explains how each of the derivative instruments works, the costs of dealing, the relationship to underlying share prices, and the risks involved. It shows how these instruments can be used alongside ordinary equity ownership, and provides examples of strategies designed to achieve specific ends. In short, Peter Temple's guide is what ordinary equity investors have been waiting for. It will give them confidence to step up from simple share ownership to the wider opportunities now available.

The new online investor the revolution continues 2nd edition Peter Temple More and more, clued–up private investors are realising that using the web to research, trade and track their investments gives them a money–making edge. Written by an experienced financial journalist and acknowledged expert on the subject, this book assembles all the key information, including essential web addresses, that online investors need to make the most of their money. Detailed case studies show how investors can collect a wealth of free information from company web sites, online newspaper archives, bulletin boards and other net resources. Building on the success of The Online Investor, first published in 1997, The New Online Investor contains new chapters and a wealth of wholly new and radically updated material. Detailed comparative assessments of the best and worst company web sites, information on bonds and economics related sites, facts and figures on the latest developments in buying and selling shares online and much more besides are included in the book. "An invaluable guide for any investor keen to get to grips with the internet; a valuable work of reference for those who already have." Simon London–Personal Finance Editor, Financial Times "Analyst?s subscribers were among the first to benefit form Peter Temple?s knowledge of the online investing scene, and this excellent book should now enable his views to reach a much wider readership." Jeremy Utton – Editor and Founder, Analyst,