Investing can be fun as well as rewarding. It could certainly earn you much more than you could gain by sticking your money in a bank account. It really does not require much to make money from the stock market - just an understanding of a few simple concepts and the following of a few rules.

Written by the UK’s most successful writer on investing, Get Started in Shares explains in very clear and simple terms what shares are, how they are traded and what to look out for as an owner of shares.

This is a straight-talking guide to the mysteries of investing that assumes no prior knowledge and will build up your understanding of investing in a series of easy steps.

From bestselling author Glen Arnold, this is a jargon-busting book that describes how financial markets work, where they are located and how they impact on everyday life. It assumes no specialised prior knowledge of finance theory and provides an authoritative and comprehensive run-down of the workings of the modern financial system.

Using real world examples from media such as the Financial Times, Arnold gives an international perspective on the financial markets with frequent comparisons in the workings of major financial centres such as the Bank of England and the City, the Federal Reserve System and Wall Street, the Japanese Central Bank, the European Central Bank and IMF and World Bank.

'Whether a complete novice, or a professional portfolio manager, this book will give you access to the mindset and techniques of the most successful investors of our time and more importantly, it will help you avoid mistakes. The Great Investors will have a permanent place on my desk.'

Mark Sheridan , Executive Director, Nomura International PLC

Leading investors such as Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Sir John Templeton, George Soros and Anthony Bolton are known throughout the world. How did these people come to be so successful? Which strategies have they used to make their fortunes? And what can you learn from their techniques?

In The Great Investors, Glen Arnold succinctly and accurately describes the investment philosophies of the world?s greatest investors. He explains why they are the best, gives details of their tactics for accumulating wealth, captures the key elements that led to their market-beating successes and teaches you key lessons that you can apply to your own investing strategies.

From the foreword:

?There are some very special people who seem to possess an exceptional talent for acquiring wealth. I want to explore not just the past triumphs of these masters, but also the key factors they look for as well as the personality traits that allow them to control emotion and think rationally about where to place funds. How does a master of investment hone skills through bitter experience and triumph to develop their approach to accumulating wealth??

Glen Arnold

The Great Investors is the story of a number of remarkable men: John Templeton, George Soros, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Philip Fisher, Peter Lynch, Anthony Bolton and John Neff. Whether you?re new to investing, have had success in the markets, or you?re a professional investor or fund manger, you?ll benefit from reading about their proven, and successful, trading philosophies.

The Great Investorswill show you how to:

· Be a business analyst rather than a security analyst

· Do your homework and develop a broad social, economic and political awareness

· Control emotion so as not to get swept away by the market

· Be consistent in your approach, even when you have bad years

· See the wood for the trees and not over complicate your portfolio

· Learn from your investing

· Be self reliant, stand aside from the crowd and follow your own logic

· Take reasonable risk

'Glen Arnold makes complex investment concepts understandable. He explains what the masters of the investment world have done to achieve their status.'

David Shapiro, Stamford Associates

'An excellent intorduction to value investing, some of its most famous practitioners and the investments that made them rich.'

Mark Wallace, Rothschild

'In an age of turbulence, reading this book is as good as an inoculation against fads and infatuation with over-trading.'

Robin Woodbine Parish, Chairman of the El Oro and Exploration company.plc

What are the key principles that have served great investors for over half a century?

Is there anything that we can learn from those investors who have displayed an enviable performance on the world?s stock markets?

In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Glen Arnold addresses just these questions. He provides a set of guidelines which join value principles and growth attributes with the philosophies of the world's most famous investors.

Originally published as Valuegrowth Investing, this new edition has been updated throughout. The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing conveys fundamental concepts, provides practical methods and soffers sound reasoning to guide investment selections.

The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing:

• Describes the proven investing philosophies of iconic investors including Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and Benjamin Graham
• Shows what ordinary investors should focus on when looking to invest
• Provides tools for analysing key investment factors
• Delivers a coherent investment strategy today for growth tomorrow
• Proves that great investing requires great principles