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Investments Zvi Bodie

Investments By Zvi Bodie

Investments by Zvi Bodie

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Updated for the fourth edition, this textbook includes expanded discussion on IPOs and under pricing; further material on trading issues; and a new chapter on mutual funds and other investment companies.

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Investments by Zvi Bodie

BKM is the leader in this market due to its celebrated writing style, elimination of unnecessary mathematical details, and the emphasis on asset allocation as the primary determinant of the risk-return profile on the investment portfolio. BKM also ably balances theory and application.

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

1. The Investment Environment 2. Markets and Instruments 3. How Securities are Traded 4. Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies 5. Concepts and Issues 6. Risk and Risk Aversion 7. Capital Allocation between the Risky Asset and the Risk-Free Asset 8. Optimal Risky Portfolios 9. The Capital Asset Pricing Model 10. Single-Index and Multi-Factor Models 11. Arbitrage Pricing Theory 12. Market Efficiency 13. Empirical Evidence on Security Returns 14. Bond Prices and Yields 15. The Term Structure of Interest Rates 16. Fixed-Income Portfolio Management 17. Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis 18. Equity Valuation Models 19. Financial Statement Analysis 20. Options Markets: Introduction 21. Option Valuation 22. Future Markets 23. Futures and Swaps: A Closer Look 24. Portfolio Performance Evaluation 25. International Diversification 26. The Process of Portfolio Management 27. Risk Management and Hedging Quantitative Review 28. The Theory of Active Portfolio Management

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CIN0256246262G
9780256246261
0256246262
Investments by Zvi Bodie
Zvi Bodie
Used - Good
Hardback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
1998-09-01
992
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