Investments / Zvi Bodie ... [et al.]

Content

The investment environment
Asset classes and financial instruments
How securities are traded
Mutual funds and other investment companies
Learning about return and risk from the historical record
Risk aversion and capital allocation to risky assets
Optimal risky portfolios
Index models
The capital asset pricing model
Arbitrage pricing theory and multifactor models of risk and return
The efficient market hypothesis
Behavioral finance and technical analysis
Empirical evidence on security returns
Bond prices and yields
The term structure of interest rates
Managing bond portfolios
Macroeconomic and industry analysis
Equity valuation models
Financial statement analysis
Options markets: introduction
Option valuation
Futures markets
Futures, swaps, and risk management
Portfolio performance evaluation
International diversification
Hedge funds
The theory of active portfolio management

Includes index