Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130336505 ISBN 13: 9780130336507

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 2001

This is a book about the theory of investment management. Among other things, the theory provides the tools to enable you to manage investment risk, detect mispriced securities, minimize taxes, and measure the performance of investment managers.This book is intended for the introductory graduate or intermediate undergraduate course in investment management. It requires a minimal level of training in mathematics and statistics. The book presents many mini case studies which show students how the techniques explored in the book are actually used in the real world.

From the Publisher:

This text offers accurate and intuitive coverage of investments, with an emphasis on portfolio theory. It includes extensive discussion of capital asset pricing, arbitrage pricing, pricing of derivative securities, interest rates, and bond management. Stock valuation, estimating future earnings and dividends, and fixed income markets are examined closely.

From the Back Cover:

Customized directly to match the problems in the text, this new windows-based software enables students to easily and immediately see the effects of changing assumptions on the structure of asset allocation, expected returns to industries and asset classes, performance evaluation and many other investment decisions.