Funny Money

The Investment Diary of Bernard Jones

“Just as chicklit heroine Bridget Jones struggles with men, retired anti-hero Bernard Jones is bemused by the trials and tribulations of investing.  Anyone who is a member of an investment club will instantly recognise the characters in this clever, well crafted and highly amusing book.”

 Brian Durrant, Investment Director, The Fleet Street Letter.

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“In Bernard Jones, Nick Louth has produced an anti-hero for our financial age. Whether it is fighting his way to a secure retirement, jousting with the council over wheelie bins or feuding with his wife over his fondness for cakes and biscuits, Bernard Jones goes into battle on behalf of us all.”

 Matthew Vincent, Editor,  Investors Chronicle.

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“Bernard Jones, tried by life, marriage, family, friends and neighbours as much as by investment is a must-read. He's on the way to becoming a minor classic.”

 Chris Crowcroft, Investors Chronicle reader

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Retired civil servant Bernard Jones isn't, as he would be the first to agree, the world's greatest investor. The man who lost money with shares in Jarvis and Railtrack, and who retains a with-profit policy with Equitable Life has proved that the best way to make a small fortune in shares is to start with a large one.

Now, though, goaded by his overbearing wife Eunice and shamed by the investing success of dinner-party bore Peter Edgington, Bernard has decided to turn over a new leaf and apply himself.

Better still, he discovers that his senile mother Dot is actually sitting on a fortune bigger than he could have dreamed of. But getting his hands on it is easier said than done

Click here to read an excerpt from chapter one

The next volume of the diaries, Bernard Jones and the Temple of Mammon will be published in December 2007

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