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 I - On investment risks

Collection:: Economics Books

Amongst Stock Exchange securities the British Trustee stocks are rightly considered to he the soundest type of investment. In this book we deal with stocks and shares only, and therefore we here leave all other forms of investment out of consideration. In spite, however, of their individual merits, an invest ment made in Trustee stocks in 1896 and realised in 1903 would have produced a result similar to the following :— Bought in 1896. £1,500 Birmingham Corporation 3| per cent. stock at 131 £1,965 £1,300 London & North Western Railway 4 per cent. Preference at 160 ... 2,080 £1,600 Southern Mahratta Railway 3| per cent. Guaranteed at 129 2,064 £6,109 Value in 1903. £1,500 Birmingham Corporation 3| per cent. stock at 104 £1,560 £1,300 London & North Western Railway 4 per cent. Preference at 125 ... 1,625 £1,600 Southern Mahratta Railway 3^ per cent. Guaranteed at 104 1,664 £4,849 Lo** £1,260 We should explain that the prices quoted in the above tables do not represent the full extremes of fluctuation during the period under review. Had we attempted to stretch

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