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ISE Essentials of Investments Zvi Bodie

ISE Essentials of Investments By Zvi Bodie

ISE Essentials of Investments by Zvi Bodie


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ISE Essentials of Investments by Zvi Bodie

Essentials of Investments by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus, continues to evolve along with the changes in the financial markets yet remains organised around one basic theme - that security markets are nearly efficient.

This text places great emphasis on asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. The text also focuses on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory and convey practical value insights.

In their efforts to link theory to practice, the author team also makes their approach consistent with that of the CFA Institute. Included are questions from previous CFA exams in the end-of-chapter problems and CFA-style questions derived from the Kaplan-Schweser CFA preparation courses.

About Zvi Bodie

Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, where he taught from 1973 to 2016. Today, he is an independent financial consultant and educator. His main professional interest is to firmly establish finance as an applied science built on the principles explained in his books and websites. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management. His textbook Financial Economics coauthored by Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert C. Merton has been translated into 9 languages. In addition to his textbooks, Bodie has coauthored two books for the mass market: Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing and Worry-Free Investing A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals. In 2007, the Retirement Income Industry Association gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research. He has authored and edited many books and articles on pensions and investing for retirement. With the support of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, he organized a series of 3 conferences on the theory and practice of life-cycle finance. Currently he serves as senior advisor to the Investments and Wealth Institute and consults for a number of financial firms including Dimensional Fund Advisors. Professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has been 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 Kanes research is mainly in corporate finance, portfolio management, and capital markets, most recently in the measurement of market volatility and pricing of options. Alan J. Marcus is a Professor of Finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His main research interests are in derivatives and securities markets. He is co-author (with Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane) of the texts Investments and Essentials of Investments. Professor Marcus has served as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus also spent two years at Freddie Mac, where he helped to develop mortgage pricing and credit risk models. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.

Table of Contents

Part ONE: ELEMENTS OF INVESTMENTS

Chapter 1: Investments: Background and Issues

Chapter 2: Asset Classes and Financial Instruments

Chapter 3: Securities Markets

Chapter 4: Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies

Part TWO: PORTFOLIO THEORY

Chapter 5: Risk, Return, and the Historical Record

Chapter 6: Efficient Diversification

Chapter 7: Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory

Chapter 8: The Efficient Market Hypothesis

Chapter 9: Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis

Part THREE: DEBT SECURITIES

Chapter 10: Bond Prices and Yields

Chapter 11: Managing Bond Portfolios

Part FOUR: SECURITY ANALYSIS

Chapter 12: Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis

Chapter 13: Equity Valuation

Chapter 14: Financial Statement Analysis

Part FIVE: DERIVATIVE MARKETS

Chapter 15: Options Markets

Chapter 16: Option Valuation

Chapter 17: Futures Markets and Risk Management

Part SIX: ACTIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

Chapter 18: Evaluating Investment Performance

Chapter 19: International Diversification

Chapter 20: Hedge Funds

Chapter 21: Taxes, Inflation, and Investment Strategy

Chapter 22: Investors and the Investment Process

Appendixes

A. References

B. References to CFA Questions

Index

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GOR013133729
9781265450090
1265450099
ISE Essentials of Investments by Zvi Bodie
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McGraw-Hill Education
20210104
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