Shares for Investment and Wealth

The stock market offers fantastic returns. It can also ruin you. This book, based on the author's extensive knowledge of the market and investing expertise, takes you by the hand and introduces you to the market - tells you how you can invest wisely and warns you of the many pitfalls. This is a book you cannot afford to miss.
A reader buying the first edition wrote, "This is a gift to myself to enable me to increase my knowledge and help me invest sensibly for my family" Other reviews are as follows:
Useful and well written - Times of India.
A must for the novice. This book highlights the pitfalls in a delirious stockmarket and is a thumbrule for new entrants to the bourses. - Business World.
A very valuable introductory guid to new investors - Economic Times.
Provides considerable insight to investors into the wonderworld of shares and share investments. All in all, the manner in which the book has been written makes it a handy investment tool for lay investors as well as seasoned investors. This book could well become a new investor's bible - Sunday Observer.
Simple and easy to follow with numerous illustrations - Ascent.
The author Raghu Palat is one of India’s leading writers on banking, finance and investments. He has written over forty other extremely well received books.
Mr. Palat comes from a very illustrious Nair family. His great grandfather, the late Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was a member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council and is the first and only Malayalee President of the Indian National Congress. He was instrumental in the enactment of the Malabar Marriage Act, 1896. A man of conviction and integrity, whom the Viceroy Lord Chelmsford called “the most powerful Indian in India”, he resigned from the Executive Council in outrage at the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. His grandfather Mr. Ramunni Menon Palat was Minister for Public Health of the Madras Presidency during ‘self-rule’. His other great grandfather was his Highness, the late Rama Varma, the first Maharaja of Cochin and it was during his reign that the Cochin Nair Act, 1920 was enacted. His great grandmother, the late Parukutty Neithyaramma, was a brilliant lady and a very powerful person. His maternal grandfather, Vadakke Kuruppath Aravindaksha Menon was, in 1925, the first Indian to go as an industrial trainee to General Motors in the United States of America. His immediate family includes eminent civil servants, ambassadors, generals, corporate leaders and well known professionals.
A career banker Raghu Palat has held very senior positions with multinational banks in India and abroad. He is presently a consultant to banks. He also specializes in knowledge management. He manages a dedicated finance portal called bankingrules.com which is a repertoire of rules and regulations relating to finance, commerce, corporates and banks. In addition he conducts workshops on business etiquette, effective business writing, presentation skills, banking and finance. Mr. Palat also manages an e-learning portal on banking and business communication called www.ibbc.co.in.
He lives in Mumbai with his wife Pushpa. Their two daughters Divya and Nikhila also live in Mumbai.