Investments Vol I

Preface......Page 5 Walk Through......Page 13 1. The Investment Environment......Page 17 2. Markets and Instruments......Page 42 3. How Securities Are Traded......Page 79 4. Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies......Page 118 5. History of Interest Rates and Risk Premiums......Page 146 6. Risk and Risk Aversion......Page 167 7. Capital Allocation between the Risky Asset and the Risk-Free Asset......Page 196 8. Optimal Risky Portfolio......Page 220 9. The Capital Asset Pricing Model......Page 270 10. Single-Index and Multifactor Models......Page 304 11. Arbitrage Pricing Theory......Page 332 12. Market Efficiency......Page 352 13. Empirical Evidence on Security Returns......Page 394 14. Bond Prices and Yields......Page 425 15. The Term Structure of Interest Rates......Page 463 16. Managing Bond Portfolios......Page 493 17. Macroeconomics and Industry Analysis......Page 541 18. Equity and Valuation Models......Page 571 19. Financial Statement Analysis......Page 615 20. Options Markets: Introduction......Page 656 21. Option Valuation......Page 704 22. Futures Markets......Page 747 23. Futures and Swaps: A Closer Look......Page 774 24. Portfolio Performance Evaluation......Page 812 25. International Diversification......Page 854 26. The Process of Portfolio Management......Page 879 Subject Index......Page