Personal Finance and Investments

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - The Psychology of Personal Investment Decisions, Basics of Money, Bond and Property Markets

Chapter 3 - Interest Rates and Money Market Investments

Chapter 4 - Investing in Bonds

Chapter 5 - Property Investment and Mortgages, Basics of Stock Markets

Chapter 6 - Stock Exchanges

Chapter 7 - Stock Indices

Chapter 8 - The Rationale and Conduct of Regulation, Institutional Investments

Chapter 9 - Mutual Funds (Unit Trusts, OEICs, Investment Trusts)

Chapter 10 - Life Assurance and Assurance-Related Investments

Chapter 11 - Pensions

Chapter 12 - The Importance and Significance of Institutional Investors, Capital Market Theory

Chapter 13 - Portfolio Diversification

Chapter 14 - Capital Market Theory: The Capital Asset Pricing Model

Chapter 15 - Capital Market Theory: Alternatives and Criticisms, Portfolio Management

Chapter 16 - Styles of Portfolio Construction

Chapter 17 - Evaluating the Performance of Fund Managers, Investment Analysis

Chapter 18 - The Economic Environment

Chapter 19 - Dividend Discount Models

Chapter 20 - Company Accounts and Economic Value Added

Chapter 21 - Ratio Analysis

Chapter 22 - Technical Analysis, Market Efficiency

Chapter 23 - Market Efficiency: Concepts and Weak Form Evidence

Chapter 24 - Noise Trading and Behavioural Finance

Chapter 25 - Market Anomalies

Chapter 26 - Further Evidence on Market Efficiency

Chapter 27 - Stock Market Bubbles and Crashes, Stock Index Futures

Chapter 28 - Stock Index Futures

Chapter 29 - Stock Index Futures Prices

Chapter 30 - Hedging with Stock Index Futures, Stock Options

Chapter 31 - Stock Options

Chapter 32 - Speculation with Stock Options

Chapter 33 - Hedging with Options

Chapter 34 - Structured Products

Chapter 35 - Warrants, Convertibles, and Split-Caps

Chapter 36 - Option Pricing and the Black-Scholes Model

Chapter 37 - Variations on the Basic Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model

Chapter 38 - The Binomial Option Pricing Model, International Investing: Using Currency Derivatives

Chapter 39 - Currency Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options, Bond and Interest Rate Analysis

Chapter 40 - Bond Prices and Redemption Yields

Chapter 41 - Duration and Risk

Chapter 42 - Bond Price Convexity

Chapter 43 - Bond Futures

Chapter 44 -Yield Curves and Interest Rate Futures

Chapter 45 - Interest Rate Swaps