Investments

Designed for MBA and advanced undergraduate students taking a course in investments/introduction to finance/financial markets. These courses aim to introduce students to the financial markets and instruments (including money markets, fixed income, equities and FX markets). Investments: Spot and Derivative Markets provides an introduction to risk management and provides a real world flavour throughout.
The authors include a lot of pedagogy, namely: chapter objectives summaries; end of chapter exercises; numerous real–world examples and case vignettes; Excel spreadsheets providing simulations for the reader; a glossary of terms; clear, simple and consistent mathematical notation.

Spis treści:
Preface
PART I FINANCIAL MARKETS
Chapter 1 Markets and Players
Chapter 2 Raising Finance
Chapter 3 Financial Instruments
Chapter 4 Trading Securities
Chapter 5 Investment Companies
PART 2 VALUATION
Chapter 6 Valuation Techniques
Chapter 7 Cost of Capital
Chapter 8 Valuing Firms
PART 3 ASSET RETURNS AND PORTFOLIO THEORY
Chapter 9 Measuring Asset Returns
Chapter 10 Portfolio Theory
Chapter 11 International Diversification
Chapter 12 Single Index Model
Chapter 13 CAPM–APT
PART 4 EQUITY MARKETS
Chapter 14 Stock Valuation and EMH
Chapter 15 Behavioral Finance
Chapter 16 Predicting Stock Returns
Chapter 17 Technical Trading
PART 5 FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET
Chapter 18 Spot and Forward Markets
PART 6 FIXED–INCOME MARKETS
Chapter 19 Money Market
Chapter 20 Bond Market
Chapter 21 Term Structure of Interest Rates
Chapter 22 Bond Market Strategies
PART 7 DERIVATIVES
Chapter 23 Derivative Securities
Chapter 24 Futures Markets
Chapter 25 Options Markets
Chapter 26 Option Pricing
Chapter 27 Energy and Weather Derivatives
PART 8 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Chapter 28 Private Equity
Chapter 29 Mutu al Funds
Chapter 30 Hedge Funds
Chapter 31 Market Risk and Value at Risk
GLOSSARY
LIST OF SYMBOLS
FINANCE WEB SITES
REFERENCES
INDEX