Essentials of investments / Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus.

Contents;

Part One. Elements of Investments
1. Investments: Background and Issue
2. Financial Securities
3. Securities markets
4. Mutual Funds and Other investments companies

Part Two. Portfolio Theory
5. Risk and Returns: Past and Prologue
6. Efficient Diversification
7. Capital Assets Pricing and Arbitrage pricing Theory
8. Efficient Markets and the Behavioral Critique

Part Three. Debt Security
9. Bond Prices and Yields
10. Managing Bond Portfolios

Part Four. Security Analysis
11. Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
12. Equity Valuation
13. Financial Statement Analysis

Part Five. Derivation Markets
14. Options Markets
15. Option Valuation
16. Future Markets

Part Six. Active Investment Management
17. Performance Evaluation and Active portfolio Management
18. Globalization and International Investing
19. Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis
20. Taxes, Inflation and Investment Strategy
21. Investors and the Investment process

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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