Investments

Part I Introduction
1. The Investment Environment
2. Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
3. How Securities are Traded
4. Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
Part II Portfolio Theory and Practice
5. Risk, Return, and the Historical Record
6. Capital Allocation to Risky Assets
7. Optimal Risky Portfolios
8. Index Models
Part III Equilibrium in Capital Markets
9. The Capital Asset Pricing Model
10. Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Multifactor Models of Risk and Return
New Product Information
11. The Efficient Market Hypothesis
12. Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis
13. Empirical Evidence on Security Returns
Part IV Fixed-Income Securities
14. Bond Prices and Yields
15. The Term Structure of Interest Rates
16. Managing Bond Portfolios
Part V Security Analysis
17. Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
18. Equity Valuation Models
19. Financial Statement Analysis
Part VI Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
20. Options Markets: Introduction
21. Option Valuation
22. Futures Markets
23. Futures, Swaps, and Risk Management
Part VII Applied Portfolio Management
24. Portfolio Performance Evaluation
25. International Diversification
26. Hedge Funds
27. The Theory of Active Portfolio Management
28. Investment Policy and the Framework of the CFA Institute


References to CFA Problems
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
Formulas

Overview
The eleventh edition of Investments is a textbook for courses in investment analysis. The revised edition has been updated to encapsulate the changes in the investment environment along with the global impact of such fluctuations, including the unprecedented events surrounding the financial crisis.
The book is simple and easy-to-comprehend, offers an expert instinct for confronting new ideas and challenges in decision making. It places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader and detailed treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets which have become both crucial and integral to the rapidly evolving financial universe




Highlights
• Up-to-date analysis and coverage of the changes in the investment environment
• Examination of the subject matter in the local context with relevant examples of concepts in the subsequent scenario (FOREX Market, Securitization, Bond Market Indices, SEBI Regulations and more)
• Provide readers with an expert instinct for decision making by offering them a methodical insight into major financial issues.

• Investments