Negative Gearing - A plain English guide to leverage for share and property investors

N. E. RENTON
Negative Gearing
Paperback

This comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide will help investors in ordinary shares and property who wish to use other people's money to boost their returns. It examines investment objectives and the risk taking in this context.

It will assist everyone from beginners and small savers to experienced investors to understand better both the advantages and disadvantages of leverage. Unlike the comments by proponents of critics of negative gearing this book is written from an independent perspective.

It discusses both positive and negative gearing and looks at possible changes changes to the tax rules and their implications. A comparison of superannuation and negative gearing as tax shelters is made.

Much has already been written about the tax benefits of negative gearing when buying property. That fact that it may also be used to purchase other income producing assets such as shares or units in unit trusts is often overlooked.

This book also deals with the use of derivatives such as options, warrants and futures for leverage. It complements the authors popular books Family Trusts and Wills and Estate Planning.

This book is now in an updated and expanded second edition which takes into account the recent income tax and capital gains tax changes and introduction of the goods and services tax.

Negative gearing is a topic that has not been covered before in a book of this type. N E Renton's attention to detail in a subject glossed over by most other investment book designed for ordinary readers is very impressive.

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