Essentials of Investments or International Business Law

Essentials of Investments

Author: Zvi Bodi

The market leader,Essentials Of Investments,4/E is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrated on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. ESSENTIALS maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships). ESSENTIALS also continues to develop modern topics. The major objective in this revision is to maintain the current level in content and coverage,but work on improving the text's accessibility by enhancing presentation,pedagogy,and design.

Table of Contents:

Part One: Elements of Investments

1. Investments: Backgrounds and Issues
2. Financial Markets and Instruments
3. How Securities are Traded
4. Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
5. Investors and the Investments Process
Part Two: Portfolio Theory
6. Risk and Return: Past and Prologue
7. Efficient Diversification
8. Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
9. The Efficient Market Hypothesis
Part Three: Fixed-Income Securities
10. Bond Prices and Yields
11. Managing Fixed-Income Investments
Part Four: Security Analysis
12. Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
13. Equity Valuation
14. Financial Statement Analysis
15. Technical Analysis
Part Five: Derivative Assets: Options and Futures
16. Options Markets
17. Option Valuation
18. Futures Markets
Part Six: Active Investment Management
19. Performance Evaluation and Active Portfolio Management (new title to come)
20. International Diversification

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International Business Law

Author: WILLES

provides a unique and compelling picture oftoday’s global sociocultural environment and its comparative legal systems.From logistics to intellectual property, current topics are examined througharticles from BusinessWeek and other periodicals. Boxes provide accessible,practical, and often counterintuitive advice regarding the hands-on legalmechanics of conducting international business.

John A. Willes (Canada) is a barrister, solicitor, and professor emeritus at Queen’s University.

John H. Willes (Canada) is a barrister, solicitor, and consultant.