Essentials of investements - Brossura

Bodie, Zvi; Kane, Alex; Marcus, Alan J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071267492 ISBN 13: 9780071267496

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

Riassunto

The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, Essentials of Investments, 8e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus, emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. The eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect the recent financial crisis and includes a new chapter on Hedge Funds.

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L'autore:

Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, where he taught from 1973 to 2016.  Today, he is an independent financial consultant and educator.  His main professional interest is to firmly establish finance as an applied science built on the principles explained in his books and websites.  He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management.  His textbook Financial Economics coauthored by Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert C. Merton has been translated into 9 languages.  In addition to his textbooks, Bodie has coauthored two books for the mass market: Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing and Worry-Free Investing A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals.  In 2007, the Retirement Income Industry Association gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research.  He has authored and edited many books and articles on pensions and investing for retirement. With the support of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, he organized a series of 3 conferences on the theory and practice of life-cycle finance.  Currently he serves as senior advisor to the Investments and Wealth Institute and consults for a number of financial firms including Dimensional Fund Advisors. 

Contenuti:

Part 1: Elements of Investments
1- Investments: Background and Issues
2- Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
3- Securities Markets
4- Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
Part 2: Portfolio Theory
5- Risk and Return: Past and Prologue
6- Efficient Diversification
7- Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
8- The Efficient Market Hypothesis
9- Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis
Part 3: Debt Securities
10- Bond Prices and Yields
11- Managing Bond Portfolios
Part 4: Security Analysis
12- Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
13- Equity Valuation
14- Financial Statement Analysis
Part 5: Derivative Markets
15- Options Markets
16- Option Valuation
17- Futures Markets and Risk Management
Part 6: Active Investment Management
18- Portfolio Performance Evaluation
19- Globalization and International Investing
20- Hedge Funds
21- Taxes, Inflation, and Investment Strategy
22- Investors and the Investment Process

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0071267492
• ISBN 13: 9780071267496
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 768