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Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein By: William Cotton (1786-1866) |
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passages in the original text.] Everybody's Guide
to
Money Matters With a description of the various invest
ments chiefly dealt in on the stock
exchange, and the mode of
dealing therein also Some account of the pitfalls prepared for the unwary,
and suggestions to the cautious investor. by William Cotton, F.S.A. Late treasurer of the county of Devon,
author of "An Elizabethan Guild," "Gleanings from Records,"
"The Bank Manager," etc.
Originator of the postal order system. London 1898. PREFACE.
THE Author, emboldened by a Banking expe
rience of over forty years, offers this little work
to the public in the hope that, elementary though
it be, it may prove acceptable to many persons
of both sexes. The work has been prepared chiefly for the
use of women, a vast proportion of whom are
brought up in utter ignorance of money matters
in the simplest form, though otherwise they may
be highly accomplished. The subject, it must be allowed, is not a fasci
nating one, but there are periods in the lives of
most persons when some knowledge of money
matters may be useful and even necessary. W.C. CONTENTS. PAGE
CHAP. I. What is Money? What to do with it How to
open a Bank Account How to draw Cheques . . . 1 CHAP. II. How to Deposit Money at Interest The Bank
Pass Book The Advantages of a Bank Account . 13 CHAP. III. London Banks and Banking Bill of Exchange
Deposits Scotch and Irish Banks . . . . . . . 20 CHAP. IV. Investments What are Securities Mortgages
The Funds The National Debt Stocks and Shares
Dividends, how Payable . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 CHAP. V. British Government Funds The Different Debts
Terminable Annuities Loans Guaranteed by Govern
ment Dividends, how to Receive them Automatic Re
investment of Dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 CHAP. VI. Government Annuities, how to Purchase When
Payable Tables Insurance Office Annuities Tables
Indian Government Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . 41 CHAP. VII. Loans to Corporations, &c. Colonial Govern
ment Securities Inscribed Stocks and Bonds List of
Inscribed Stocks Bonds and Coupons Foreign Govern
ment Stocks Caution in Investing Railways The
Different Stocks and their Relative Values The War
rants for Interest and Dividends Indian Railway Stocks
American Railways Foreign Railways Banks As
an Investment Colonial and Foreign Corporation Stocks
Canals and Docks Gas Electric Lighting, Telegraph
and Telephone Water Works Breweries Industrial
Companies Financial, Land and Investment Companies
Financial Trusts Insurance Companies Steamship
Companies Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 CHAP. VIII. The Stock Exchange Brokers and Jobbers
How Business is Done "Contango" and "Backwarda
tion" "Bulls" and "Bears" "Boom" and "Slump"
Settlement Risk in Keeping Convertible Bonds
Brokers Traps and Snares Good Companies and Bad
Advertising Swindles Gold Mines A Typical Case
Exploration Companies ... Continue reading book >>
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