Investments
Published on 15. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-07-471694-6 (ISBN)
Description
Bodie, Kane and Marcus is the leading investments text in US business schools and a popular title across the world. The publication of an Australian edition of Investments builds on this strong foundation. This new title incorporates examples that are especially relevant to the Australian environment, such as the ASX and The Reserve Bank.
The new Australian edition provides students with the perfect blend of practical and theoretical content, together with the tools they need for success in investment analysis. Students not only learn the basics, but also how to critically appraise new ideas and challenges that they will face in their professional lives.
The new Australian edition provides students with the perfect blend of practical and theoretical content, together with the tools they need for success in investment analysis. Students not only learn the basics, but also how to critically appraise new ideas and challenges that they will face in their professional lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 98 mm
Width: 78 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
4 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-471694-6 (9780074716946)
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Persons
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.
Content
Part 1 - Introduction1. The Investment Environment2. Financial Instruments3. How Securities are Traded4. Mutual Funds and Investment CompaniesPart 2 - Portfolio Theory5. History of Interest Rates and Risk Premiums6. Risk and Risk Aversion7. Capital Allocation between the Risky Asset and the Risk-free Asset8. Optimal Risky PortfoliosPart 3 - Equilibrium Capital Markets9. The Capital Asset Pricing Model10. Index Models11. Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Multifactor Models of Risk and Return12. Market Efficiency and Behavioural Finance13. Empirical Evidence on Security ReturnsPart 4 - Fixed-Income Securities14. Bonds Prices and Yields15. The Term Structure of Interest Rates16. Managing Bond PortfoliosPart 5 - Security Analysis17. Macroeconomic Industry Analysis18. Equity Valuation Models19. Financial Statement AnalysisPart 6 - Options, Futures and Other Derivatives20. Options Markets: Introduction21. Option Valuation22. Futures Markets23. Futures and Swaps: A Closer LookPart 7 - Applied Portfolio Management24. Portfolio Performance Evaluation25. International Diversification26. The Process of Portfolio Management27. The Theory of Active Portfolio Management