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Investing strategies, insights and life lessons from people who have escaped the world of employment to become independent investors.
Longer pitch:
Are you interested in investment? Would life be better if you had no job, no boss, and succeeded or failed purely on the merits of your own investment insights? Free Capital: the world of independent private investors, gives an insight into this life. Based on a series of interviews, it outlines the investing strategies, insights, and lifestyles of people who have left the world of employment to become independent private investors. How did these people originally get interested in investment? How did the interest progress to the point where they gave up their day-job? How do they spend their time now?
Free Capital: the world of independent private investors profiles a range of people who have made high returns over a long period investing for their own account, in most cases starting from small initial capital. A number of these investors have accumulated substantial seven-figure sums in ISAs. Some have many academic degrees or strong City backgrounds; others left school with few qualifications and are entirely self-taught as investors. Some invest most of their money in a very few shares and hold them for years at a time; others make dozens of trades every day, and hold them for at most a few hours. Some are inveterate networkers, who spend their day talking to managers at companies in which they invest; for others a share is just a symbol on a screen, and a price chart tells most of what they need to know.
Free Capital – a pot of money surplus to immediate living expenses – is the raw material with which these investors work. Free Capital can also be thought of as the mental space they inhabit, free from the restrictions of office politics, corporate culture and working for a boss. Free Capital is also a description of their funds, which can be redirected towards any type of investment anywhere in the world, without the constraints which institutional investors often face. Free Capital: the world of independent private investors gives a unique insight into this world, from an independent investor of many years standing.
Target market:
– Independent private investors, who want to see how their own experiences and methods compare with others.
– Part-time private investors who might one day like to escape from paid employment into full-time investing.
– Any reader of magazines like Investors Chronicle or Shares Magazine.
– Anyone whose curiosity is provoked by the idea that it is possible to make a living as an independent investor, possibly starting with very little money.
– Anyone who dreams of freedom and wealth!