Essentials of Investments with Standard & Poor's Bind-in Card - Rilegato

Bodie, Zvi; Kane, Alex; Marcus, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0073226386 ISBN 13: 9780073226385

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

Riassunto

The market leading Essentials of Investments, 6e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. 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. Essentials maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).

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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- Financial Securities

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- Efficient Markets and the Behavioral Critique

Part 3: Debt Securities

9- Bond Prices and Yields

10- Managing Bond Portfolios

Part 4: Security Analysis

11- Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis

12- Equity Valuation

13- Financial Statement Analysis

Part 5: Derivative Markets

14- Options Markets

15- Option Valuation

16- Futures Markets

Part 6: 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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0073226386
• ISBN 13: 9780073226385
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 726