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Description of Essentials of Investments with S&P

This market-leading undergraduate investments textbook 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.

# Every chapter has been reviewed and revised and the following key content updates and additions have been done for this edition: * Examples have been updated to reflect current issues and happenings in the dynamic world of investments. * New Chapter 20 ? Hedge Funds. * New coverage throughout the book includes an extensive treatment of behavioral finance, a new discussion of asset price bubbles in the context of market efficiency, and new material on the debate over mark-to-market accounting and its ramifications for the market crash of 2008.
# End of Chapter Questions are now spilt by level of difficulty: Quiz, Problems, and Challenge Problems.
# Current articles from financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal are featured as boxed readings, entitled On the Market Front. Each box is discussed in the narrative of the text to strongly link the real-world relevance to the chapter topics
# Numerous Excel Applications and Problems are included where appropriate. This feature starts with an example presented in the chapter, briefly discusses how a spreadsheet can be valuable for investigating the topic, shows a sample spreadsheet, and then directs students to the web to work with an interactive version of the spreadsheet.

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Title Information

ISBN:

9780071311236

Pages:

768 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

450305

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill

Published:

01/01/2010

Edition:

8th Revised edition

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Contents of Essentials of Investments with S&P

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