Introducing investments : a personal finance approach /
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Harlow, Essex :
FT Prentice Hall, Pearson Education,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Money market investments
- 3. Institutional (collective) investments
- 4. Some types of institutional investment fund
- 5. Tax advantaged investment schemes
- 6. The rationale and conduct of regulation
- 7. Investing in bonds
- 8. Stock exchanges
- 9. Financial anomalies
- 10. Stock options
- 11. Option related investments
- 12. Stock indices
- 13. Stock index futures
- 14. Stock index futures prices
- 15. Portfolio diversification
- 16. Capital market theory: the capital asset pricing model
- 17. Capital market theory: alternatives and criticisms
- 18. Evaluating the performance of fund managers
- 19. Investment analysis: discount models
- 20. Investment analysis: ratios
- 21. Investment analysis: technical methods
- 22. Market efficiency: concepts and weak form evidence
- 23. Market efficiency: semi-strong and strong forms
- 24. Styles of portfolio construction
- 25. Hedging with stock index futures
- 26. Hedging with options.
- 27. Bond prices
- 28. The risks of investing in bonds
- 29. Bond price convexity
- 30. Yield curves, bond portfolios and mortgages.