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Description of Essentials of Investments

The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, "Essentials of Investments, 8/e" 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.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780073382401

Pages:

768 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

413902

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill

Published:

01/10/2009

Edition:

8th Revised edition

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About Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane and Alan J. Marcus

Zvi Bodie is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Boston University School of Management. He is the director of Boston University's Chartered Financial Analysts Examination Review Program and has served as consultant to many private and governmental organizations. Professor Bodie is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he was director of the NBER Project on Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, and he is a member of the Pension Research Council of The Wharton School. He is widely published in leading professional journals, and his previous books include Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System. Alex Kane is professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He was visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo; Graduate School of Business, Harvard; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. An author of many articles in finance and management journals, Professor Kane's research is mainly in corporate finance, portfolio management, and capital markets, most recently in the measurement of market volatility and the pricing of options. Professor Kane is the developer of the International Simulation Laboratory (ISL) for training and experimental research in executive decision making. Alan Marcus is professor of finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PHD in Economics from MIT in 1981. Professor Marcus recently has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT's Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also established the Chartered Financial Analysts Review Program at Boston College. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management, with an emphasis on applications of futures and options pricing models. His consulting work has ranged from new product development to provision of expert testimony in utility rate proceedings. He also spend two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk, and he currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Currency Risk Management Alliance of State Street Bank and Windham Capital Management Boston.

Contents of Essentials of Investments

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