An Introduction To Risk And Return From Common Stocks - Hardcover

BREALEY

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631133313 ISBN 13: 9780631133315

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1983

Synopsis

This book is intended for students and practicing investment managers. Its purpose is to describe briefly and simply the modern theory of investment management and some of the evidence underlying that theory. Contents Preface I The Reaction of Common Stock Prices to New Information 1 Technical Analysis and Random Walks 2 Fundamental Analysis and Publicly Available Information 3 Can Professional Investors Beat the Market? II Valuation 4 Analyzing Common Stock 5 The Behavior of Earnings III Choosing a Common Stock Portfolio 6 Portfolio Selection 7 How Stocks Move Together 8 The Effect of the Market on Stock Prices 9 Passive and Active Portfolio 10 Risk and Return 11 Measuring Investment Performance Index

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Review

" At last, a clear, lucid, simplified discussion of risk/return principles in equity investing.... A work like this is worth any six books on how to get-richquick. Should be a staple in any investment library." - "The Stock Market Magazine"

& quot; At last, a clear, lucid, simplified discussion of risk/return principles in equity investing.... A work like this is worth any six books on how to get-richquick. Should be a staple in any investment library.& quot; - The Stock Market Magazine

"At last, a clear, lucid, simplified discussion of risk/return principles in equity investing.... A work like this is worth any six books on how to get-richquick. Should be a staple in any investment library."- "The Stock Market Magazine"

About the Author

Richard Brealey is Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631133313
• ISBN 13: 9780631133315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 198