title: Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work
author:  Robert G. Eccles 
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  # Everybody's Guide to Money Matters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Cotton, F.S.A.
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. EASY STEPS TO MONEY MATTERS.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE BANK ACCOUNT.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. LONDON BANKS AND BANKING.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. INVESTMENTS.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. BRITISH GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. LOANS TO CORPORATIONS AND COUNTIES OF
  
  
  THE UNITED KINGDOM.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. LIFE INSURANCE.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. BUILDING SOCIETIES.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  This etext was prepared by Nigel Lacey, Leicestershire, UK.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  _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.
  
  