Index to Papers

The papers written by our members and published on this website as well as in our own publication, The Serious Investor, cover the whole spectrum of equity investment, as well as some other investments. They provide the actual views of serious investors; these often provide more personal, more penetrating and more critical insights into aspects of investments than can be found in most books and newspapers and journals. They therefore complement such public publications and provide different perspectives.

The following index gives a glimpse of the range available. Members can follow the links directly to many of the papers.

Title Issue No (Dates for Issue Numbers) and Page
A Very English Deceit 15.17
Accounts – Youth Steps in Where Business Angels Fear to Tread 9.4
Admiration, Respect or 5.9
Admired, What it is to be 8.5
AGMs, John Braine-Hartnell 15.6
AIM, Members’ interest 12.5
AIM, Tax Avoidance 8.9
AIM & Fledgling Companies 20.6
Analyst Reviews 5.9, 6.11, 7.8, 8.7, 9.8, 10.9, 11.1, 12.18, 13.10, 14.12, 15.16, 16.14, 17.7
Assessing Performance against inex 20.7
Awards, SIGnet Investor 2004 15.9
Bare Trusts 8.9
Bear Portfolio, Clayton P 13.7
Beta 13.12
Book Reviews 12.14-15
Book Review: Investor’s Toolbox – Temple 14.27
Book Review: Mining Sector, Insiders Guide 16.17
Book Review: Selecting Shares That Perform – Koch 14.27
Book Review: London Stock Market 1945-2007 – Blakey 21-3
Book Review: Zero-Sum Game, Winners & Losers – Harris 14.18
Business Model, What is? – D Watson 21.15
Buy-Backs Back Fire 21.6
Cambridge Philosophy 7.4
Capital Gains Tax 8.9
Capital Gains Tax & Charitable Giving 8.8
Cause & Effect 6.4
China, Investing In 12.16
Climate Change – What is in it for inv’tors? 10.7
Coppock Indicators 11.12, 16.19
Datamining – Sharescope 9.6
Decisions, documentation of 6.7
Deflation, The Dreaded ‘D’ Word 17.14
Delphi Technique 4.12
Differences, Why the? environmental 10.8
Different ways of investing 18.1
Directors, Assessment of 12.5
Dividend Growth, Targeting 21-2
e-venture Assessment 7.6, 8.8
Earnings per share criteria - J. Lander 14.22, 15.15, 16.18, 17.4, 18.9, 19.4, 20.10, 21.13
Earnings per share criteria in Ireland - J. Lander 21.14
Economic Cycle of Opportunity 19.10
Economic Review 12.8
Economic, World Survey, Steel J. 13.4
Equity Valuation Model 21.5
Europhile Investors 7.3
Fear and Greed 17.1
Fledgling & AIM Companies 20.6
Fline Cunning 9.5, 11.12
Filter, Lessons from a Research - 11.6
Forecasts - beating 7.7
Forecasts - secular change 10.5
Freddie (Mac) & Fanny (May) 15.8
FTSE100 & S&P Ratio 14.20-21
Gloom, Luke Johnson 13.9
Graham & Doddsville, super investors 11.5, 16.4
Guaranteed Equity Bonds 16-6
Guru Fortunes – Lawsuits 10.7
Hippo Market, animal metaphor 15.17
Horoscopes 15.8
Hourly Rate, What is your? 6.10
How Many Investors Are There? 13.11
IfG Reviews
4.10, 5.8, 6.10, 7.8, 8.6, 9.9, 10.9, 11.11, 12.10, 13.13, 14.26, 15.18, 16.8, 17.6, 18.11
IFRS 19.6
Index, SIGnet Sector 15.4, 16.9, 18.9
Indicator Search 14.14-15
Inheritance Tax 8.9
Innovation + Competition = Prosperity 12.9
International Investing 8.8, 12.4
Internet – Where is profit made 10.7
Intrinsic Value 11.10
Investors, How Many? 13.11
Jungle and Investing, The 16.1-3
Keynes, John Maynard 11.4
Kindleberger, Manias, Panics & Crashes 14.21
Lessons from a Research Filter 11.6
lesson.com 11.9
Liquidity, John Read 9.7
Long Term, trends, C. Pratt 20.12
Long Term, Update 21.11
Macroeconomic Factors Affecting Equities 15.14
Market, Bottom, How do you spot it? 11.3
Market future, not cheerful 13.4-5
Market Wash Out 6.7
Medium Term Share Selection 18.4
Mergers & Demergers 7.4
Mining, Oil & Gas 17.12
Momentum Shares and Duration of Growth 20.4
MoneyWeek 13.15
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis 11.15
Niche Companies 10.10
OFEX 8.7, 12.5
Oil & Gas and Mining 17.12
Online investing, book reviews 13.16
Options, Newman’s Method 14.3
Options Trading & Spread Betting – M.Newman 21.8
PE = Blue Chip re Mid Cap 20.11
PEG – Can your bear a PEG? 9.3
PEG - follow Up 10.4, 11.2, 12.11, 15.19
PEG - investigations 11.2
PEG & Total Return Ratios, useful? 19.12
Performance Assessment 9.5
Performance Assessment Against an index 20.7
Performance and Risk – Members’ Survey 19.13
Portfolio Spread 8.2
Profit warnings 12.7
Quantum Leap 4.12
Reasons not to be cheerful 15.12, 20.1
Registers, Share 13.15
Research on Shares before they are purchased 12.6
Reserves & Provisions 11.10
Respect or Admiration 5.9
Returns, Past & Future 12.19
Respect, What is it worth? 8.5
Return on Capital Employed and Return on Equity 16.12
Richest of the Rich 6.8
Risk and Performance – Members’ Survey 19.13
Rules, Have you changed your? 11.3
S & P & FTSE100 Ratio – Pratt 14.20
Sector changes, FTSE, 2 Jan. 06 19.3
Sectors in a Bear Market 12.4
Selection Criteria, Alternative Selection, Medium Term 18.4
Sell, After You 12.17
Sell, When to? 10.2
Selling, Technical Analysis and 10.3
Scuttlebutt Developments 11.10
Share Prices, the Ups and Downs 15.1
Share Registers 13.10
Sieves 19.1
SIGnaps 2004 15.7
Software Breakthrough 5.5; 6.3
Software Rip-offs 5.6
Specialisation 5.11
Spread Betting 16.10
Strategy Selection – J. Lander 21.7
Stock Screening, Inv. Chron. 18.3
Stock, Taking 5.10
Stop Loss, a more sophisticated approach 13.8
Strategy in a Bear Market 12.4
Success Breeds Success 14.22
Success, Continuing 15.15
Targeting Dividend Growth 21-2
tax Avoidance 8.8-9
Technical Analysis, A personal view 14.9
Technical Analysis and Selling 10.3
Technical Analysis FRSE 100 19.8
Technical Analysis in Practice 11.8
Technical Analysis in Detail 12.12
Technical Analysis, Long Term 20.12
Techniques in a Bear Market 12.4
Technology breakthrough 8.3
Technology, opportunities in 7.5
Templeton, Sir John 14.24
Terminology 6.9
Tightening the Screw 17.4
Tips on the Web 9.9
Total Return and PEG ratios, use? 19.12
Tracking but not keepong up 21.14
Truffle-hunter’s notepad 6.6; 7.1
UK Markets – 5 Year Study 17.8
US Stock Market, Long term annual returns 16.16
VCT, Tax Avoidance 8.9
Volatility, The price of 6.11
Volatility & Indexes 8.4
Warrant Results 1993-2000 7.5
Warrants, letter 7.9
Warren Buffet 7.2
Warren Buffet - Annual report for 1999 8.3
Warren Buffet - Annual Report 2000 9.2
Warren Buffet - Level of the Market in the year 2000 10.6
Warren Buffet - Debt and Delusion 11.4
Ways of investing, different 18.1
Web Site Updates 4.6; 5.5;14.6
When to Sell? 10.2
When Will They Crack? Consistent eps 16-18
Winkle Picker’s Pad 10.11
Women, Why so few 6.8


Issue No. and Date of Publication

Issue Number
Publication Title
Date
11
The SIGnet Newsletter
Spring 2002
12
The SIGnet Newsletter Autumn 2002
13
The SIGnet Newsletter January 2003
14
The SIGnet Newsletter Autumn 2003
15
The Serious Investor
Spring 2004
16
The Serious Investor Autumn 2004
17
The Serious Investor Spring 2005
18
The Serious Investor Autumn 2005
19
The Serious Investor Spring 2006
20
The Serious Investor Autumn 2007
21
The Serious Investor Spring 2008