Investment, an exact science

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Identifikator:: 865521182

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48767

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lowenfeld, Henry

Title:: Investment, an exact science

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The Financial Review of Reviews

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 160 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V - The practical construction of investment schemes

Collection:: Economics Books

74 I. Maximum Capital and Income Safety coupled with the minimum amount of personal trouble to the investor. An investor who desires a moderate income, coupled with great capital security, and who does not wish to attend to his investments more than is absolutely necessary, should minimise the number of stocks in which he invests as far as is compatible with a proper geographical distribution of external investment risks. He should confine himself to investments whose inherent safety is capable of the clearest demonstration, which are as far as possible removed from political influences, and from whose internal capital and income safety the speculative element is completely removed. Such a list should consist exclusively of Government or Municipal Loans which show the least fluctu ations in price-movement, and Debenture or Bond issues of undoubted security. Deben ture and Bond issues are the more preferable class of investment, as they are more removed from political and monetary influences than are Government and Municipal Loans. There is a general idea abroad among investors that the Government issues of the principal European States are most suitable for such

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