Synopses & Reviews
Let JONES guide you through the fast-paced field of investmentsWhether you’re making investments in your personal life or future career, Jones’ INVESTMENTS, Ninth Edition will guide you through this exciting and fast-paced field. You’ll learn how to identify successful investment opportunities, anticipate and deal with investment problems and controversies, and ultimately, make wise investment decisions.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Updated with the latest developments: The Ninth Edition is thoroughly updated to reflect new developments in the field. Most data reflect the latest information available through year-end 2002.
- Clear and focused coverage: As in all editions, Jones presents the key information students need with a minimum of extraneous detail and maximum clarity.
- Real-world decision-making skills: Throughout the discussion, Jones presents the analytics of investments to help you reason out investment issues for yourself, so you can make better investment decisions.
- Questions from prior CFA exams: These questions will help you connect the concepts and problem-solving processes you’ve learned in class to what you need to know for the professional exam.
- Pedagogy that works: Jones helps you develop a deeper understanding of the material through outstanding pedagogy, such as intriguing boxed inserts with material from the popular press and Investments Intuition sections that help you quickly grasp the intuitive logic of particular investing issues.
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Review
“…beats the heavyweight tomes…” (Investors Chronicle, September 2004)
Synopsis
* Complete discussion of Exchange Traded Funds, operations on NYSE and NASDAQ, margin trading, electronic communication networks, global investing, and technical analysis.
Synopsis
This bestseller teaches readers not only how to identify successful investment opportunities, but how to anticipate and deal with investment problems and controversies. Jones carefully and gradually develops key concepts, while covering all the necessary background material. Only essential formulas are included. It's one of the most readable, comprehensible investments titles available!
* Details the variety of securities available, the markets in which they are traded, mechanics of securities training, and insight into the important concept of risk and return.
* Examines portfolio analysis, valuation and management of stocks and bonds.
* Complete discussion of Exchange Traded Funds, operations on NYSE and NASDAQ, margin trading, electronic communication networks, global investing, and technical analysis.
About the Author
Charles Jonesis currently the Edwin Gill Professor of Finance at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1969.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: BACKGROUND.Chapter 1: Understanding Investments.
Chapter 2: Investment Alternatives.
Chapter 3: Indirect Investing.
Chapter 4: Securities Markets.
Chapter 5: How Securities Are Traded.
PART TWO: PORTFOLIO AND CAPITAL MARKET THEORY.
Chapter 6: Returns and Risks from Investing.
Chapter 7: Portfolio Theory.
Chapter 8: Portfolio Selection.
Chapter 9: Asset Pricing Models.
PART THREE: COMMON STOCKS: ANALYSIS, VALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT.
Chapter 10: Common Stock Valuation.
Chapter 11: Common Stocks: Analysis and Strategy.
Chapter 12: Market Efficiency.
PART FOUR: SECURITY ANALYSIS.
Chapter 13: Economy/Market Analysis.
Chapter 14: Sector/Industry Analysis.
Chapter 15: Company Analysis.
Chapter 16: Technical Analysis.
PART FIVE: FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES: ANALYSIS, VALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT.
Chapter 17: Bond Yields and Prices.
Chapter 18: Bonds: Analysis and Strategy.
PART SIX: DERIVATIVE SECURITIES.
Chapter 19: Options.
Chapter 20: Futures.
PART SEVEN: INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT.
Chapter 21: Portfolio Management.
Chapter 22: Evaluation of Investment Performance.