Synopses & Reviews
This new edition helps readers understand investment opportunities, make decisions and recognize potential investment problems and deal effectively with them. Streamlined and reorganized based on comments from users, the sixth edition features new chapters on the portfolio management process and investment companies.
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents:
BACKGROUND.
Understanding Investments.
Investment Alternatives.
Investment Companies.
How Securities Are Traded.
The Returns and Risks from Investing.
IMPORTANT INVESTMENT CONCEPTS.
Expected Return and Risk.
Portfolio Selection.
Capital Market Theory.
FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES: ANALYSIS, VALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT.
Bond Yields and Prices.
Bonds: Analysis and Strategy.
COMMON STOCKS: ANALYSIS, VALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT.
Common Stock Valuation.
Common Stocks: Analysis and Strategy.
SECURITY ANALYSIS.
Industry Analysis.
Company Analysis.
Technical Analysis.
DERIVATIVE SECURITIES.
Options.
Futures.
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT.
Portfolio Management.
Evaluation of Investment Performance.
Glossary.
Interest Tables.
Index.