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The Financial Times Guide to Investment Trusts is your concise and jargon free introduction to investment trusts. It explains how investment trusts differ from unit trusts and OEICs and explores the pros and cons of investment trusts including their superior performance. It also helps you identify your investment objectives, discusses the basic principles of successful investing, and how to run a trust portfolio. Whether you are a novice DIY investor or have many years' experience and wish to question the experts; the FT Guide to Investment Trusts: Provides a detailed overview of what investment trusts are and how they differ from other funds Examines the factors which help to explain the better performance of trusts - including cheaper fees, discounts and gearing Analyses the stepping stones to successful investing Shows you how to construct and monitor a trust portfolio Highlights the workings of two live and benchmarked portfolios which John has been sharing with Investor Chronicle readers over the years. SamplesPreview sample pages from The Financial Times Guide to Investment Trusts >

This book explains the period of great power peace in the last fifty years and outlines the path to perpetuating it. Drawing on the Realist tradition and challenging conventional wisdom about the causes of American primacy, Baron explores contributions to peace made by the balance of power, nuclear weapons, democracy and globalization.