The goal of investment management is to achieve the investor's required rate of return by putting assets to their most productive use. The return should compensate the investor for the time during which the funds are committed, the expected rate of inflation and the uncertainty of the anticipated future financial benefits from the investment. Investment management is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to investment analysis and portfolio management, specifically in the South African context. Investment management provides a broad framework and a thorough network of guidelines for the investment management student. It focuses on investment in financial assets such as shares and bonds, and explains both fundamental and technical analysis. It investigates portfolio management and how derivative instruments such as futures, options and swaps may be used for this purpose. A chapter is devoted to the foreign exchange market and its management, and a chapter dealing with the governance of investment management is included. By means of self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter, it prepares undergraduates for postgraduate study and is written with the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA (R)) Level I learning outcomes in mind. Investment management is aimed at undergraduate investment management students.

""Minervini has run circles around most PhDs trying to design systems to beat the market."" -- JACK SCHWAGER, bestselling author of Stock Market Wizards

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This book is not deep research work, as I am not a Ph.D. professor at any international university.

I was a teacher. I was also a real estate investor. And now I am a fulltime writer. Nevertheless, I am also research addicted reading two books per month.

Moreover, as I studied Macroeconomics, I found out that the world has been threatened by a new virus, the decentralized digital virus. Metaverse, Decentraland, blockchain, bitcoin standard, smart contracts, protocols, nodes, tokens, and halvings suddenly invaded my eyes with such a power that I had to understand what the hell was that about. If you do not know what these concepts are, you are in the right place.

Some of these articles are controversial, others you might agree with, but most of them try to explain how the world is shifting into a fully digital mode.

Central banks and governments are trying to keep the boat afloat in a perfect MMT style, while politicians still do not quite understand how the moneyprinting machine works. They keep saying we need raise taxes to pay the debt when the government is the only issuer, so it cannot become insolvent.

With deflationary pressure from technological innovations, the need for fresh money puts central banks in the red to control inflation. Covid-19 hit hard on every economy, but only the issuers can control the orchestra. Straightforwardly, as a non-native writer, I will try to give you a perspective about how the world is changing, from analog to digital, from the real world to the metaverse, with a fascinating silent war between centralized money printing power and decentralized fully digital crypto ecosystems.

In this book, I am going to show you everything you need to know:

1. Exactly how to set up your own portfolio of dividend stocks
2. Where to open up a brokerage account
3. How to never pay a commission when you buy or sell a stock
4. Which dividend stocks are the safest
5. Which dividend stocks to avoid (don't start investing until you read this)
6. How to super-charge your returns
7. How to profit from a bear market

And much, much more...

The authors emphasize the commonality of the underlying principles, eg the principle of accessoriness, governing all categories of security rights.

The vesting of a real security right does not change the balance of the assets in the debtor’s estate – it merely ring-fences the recoverable value of the identified objects of security in favour of the preferred and secured creditors. With personal security rights, the recovery is extended to include all the assets of someone other than the primary debtor – the surety. International reviewers’ comments on the Afrikaans edition confirm the value of this approach and add:

The research invested in and included in the book is impressive on several levels. The book remarkably combines a dogmatic scientific approach with usefulness of legal practice. With regard to legal practice, I have admired the in-depth manner in which the authors scrutinize the South African case law in all its dimensions and recent developments. Their analysis is developed in the text or, very often also, in the footnotes which contain a treasure of developments. On a scientific level, both the historical and comparative developments … contributes to the existing academic work” Prof Dr Vincent Sagaert – KU Leuven

The book has three main advantages. First it gives an excellent overview of the law on securities in general and the one on South African law in particular. Second, what makes the book a pleasure to read is its emphasis on caselaw. Third, the focus on comparative law makes the book highly interesting to lawyers with a foreign law outlook. The book is also very much up to date” – Prof Dr Ewoud Hondius, University of Utrecht.

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