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Investing at its Best and 
attention through the sheer weight of its clients’ com 
bined holding. Its unrivalled experience enables it to 
cope with difficulties as they arise, and it is thus 
frequently able to avert misfortunes that might other 
wise easily prove disastrous. Private investors cannot 
protect their own interests single-handed; but a well- 
managed combine of investors can always compel 
consideration. 
Investors are strongly urged to contrast the method, 
they have hitherto followed in dealing with their invest 
ments, with the definite and effective rules that govern 
investment on the principle of Geographical Distribution 
of Capital. By doing so they will learn to examine 
investments with care, will acquire a taste for mastering 
the seemingly complex, but really very simple problem 
of investing to advantage, so that finally they will be 
able to lay out their capital with signal success. 
Merely having read “ All About Investment ” has 
saved many investors from financial disasters. The 
book will teach anyone how to construct a perfect list 
of investments, and how, with some slight professional 
advice, to choose the best stocks for purchase. 
When financial authorities are consulted it should 
always be ascertained whether they favour the old 
methods, or advise on the principle of Geographical 
Distribution of Capital. Enough has been said on that 
score to make it quite clear that advisers, w’ho follow the 
obsolete methods, are likely to prove more dangerous 
to the investor than any mistakes which he might make