CONTENTS. 
Page. 
The Object of this Book ... ... v. 
Chapter. 
I. On Investment Risks ... ... ... 1 
II. What Influences the Realisable Value 
of Stocks? ... ... ... ... 18 
III. The Geographical Distribution of 
Capital ... ... ... ... 45 
IV. Why Geographical Distribution Pro 
tects both Capital and Income ... 59 
V. The Practical Construction of Invest 
ment Schemes ... ... ... 72 
VI. The Treatment of Existing Invest 
ment Lists ... ... ... ... 99 
VII. The World’s Stock Markets 110 
VIII. The Defects of the British Trustee 
Acts ... ... ... ... ... 129 
Appendix. World-Trade and the Geographical 
Distribution of Capital. Reprint 
of Popular Financial Booklet XXI. 
136