Essentials of Investments

Bodie, Zvi; Kane, Alex; Marcus, Alan

ISBN 10: 0077399463 ISBN 13: 9780077399467

Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub, 2009

Synopsis

The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, Essentials of Investments, 8e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus, emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. The eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect the recent financial crisis and includes a new chapter on Hedge Funds.

About this title

About the Author:

Zvi Bodie is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Boston University School of Management. He is the director of Boston University’s Chartered Financial Analysts Examination Review Program and has served as consultant to many private and governmental organizations. Professor Bodie is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he was director of the NBER Project on Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, and he is a member of the Pension Research Council of The Wharton School. He is widely published in leading professional journals, and his previous books include Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System.

About this edition

• Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0077399463
• ISBN 13: 9780077399467
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 722