This is an educational book for savers and investors who are already familiar with the basics of the stock exchange system but who also want to widen their knowledge of the subject.

The topics covered include some neglected investment yardsticks; several interesting types of security; and a few investment strategies. Floats, takeovers, options, proxies and share placements are among the other current issues discussed. The informed investor is likely to become a wealthier investor.

In particular, this is a book for those wanting more excitement and better returns than those available from putting money into dull term deposits or boring managed funds - even if such a strategy of buying shares directly on the stock exchange means more work.

With a Glossary, an Index and a Foreword by Ted Rofe.

224 pages   9780701637316   RRP $24.95

LEARN how market capitalisation statistics are good for exciting headlines but for little else.

LEARN how investors in a major company can get 15 per cent bang for their buck.

LEARN how a group which is a household name wanted to waste hundreds of dollars rather than admit to a two dollar error.

LEARN how 23 per cent of shareholders in one listed company fell into a money-losing trap.

LEARN how some shareholders manage to pay five lots of fees for a single share purchase.

LEARN whether investors should entrust their money to a fund manager that cannot manage its own affairs properly.

LEARN that subscribers to a listed trust managed by a prominent bank lost 87 per cent of their money within five months of its float.

LEARN how the auditor of one Australia's largest companies signed off on a patently incorrect note to the accounts.