This work aims to offer a comprehensive guide to investments and their markets. The authors present a contemporary look at all of the major investment securities, products, regulations, and the technical aspects of issuing, trading, clearing, regualtions, rules and taxes. This work does not focus on "get-rich-quick" schemes, nor does it concentrate on computational tools used in security analysis. Rather, this reference covers everything from a general overview of the securities markets to the trading mechanics and trading styles of stock selection and treasury securities. Liaw and Moy also explain the differences between individual and institutional investment objectives, asset location and portfolio management issues, and SEC regulations.

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The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options
A Comprehensive Guide to Wall Street's Markets
K. Thomas Liaw and Ronald L. Moy

Everything You Need to Know About Today's Most Popular Investments'What They Are, How They Work, and Which Will Work Best in Specific Market Conditions

The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options is today's most comprehensive guide to the investments that move Wall Street. The essential guide for anyone who wants to understand important technical aspects of the markets'from a general overview of the securities markets to professional strategies for managing a diversified portfolio'this all-encompassing reference covers it all.

For practicing finance professionals'or those new to the markets'this all-in-one resource will provide in-depth, timely information on:

- Asset allocation and portfolio rebalancing

- Individual and institutional objectives

- Evaluating Internet stocks

- SEC rules and regulations

- Online underwriting

- Stock valuation approaches

- Execution techniques and costs

- ADRs

- Asset-backed securities

- Issuing methods for Treasury securities

- Rating, pricing, and trading corporate bonds

- Buying and selling mutual funds

- Construction of benchmarks

- Performance measures and evaluations

- Risk management using futures, options, and other financial derivatives

The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options is filled with rock-solid, well-researched information'to help market professionals make informed, profitable investment decisions. Front to back, cover to cover, it is today's most comprehensive, cost-effective investment reference.

The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options
A Comprehensive Guide to Wall Street's Markets
K. Thomas Liaw and Ronald L. Moy

Stocks'bonds'initial public offerings' derivative products'technical analysis' Look around you. Today's bookshelves are filled with tomes that focus on one individual element of our rapidly changing investment environment. But only one'The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options'is comprehensive enough to contain detailed, specific information on the entire spectrum of investing.

Today's ideal fingertip reference for the practicing professional, it is equally suited to the indepENDent investor who needs accurate information for making intelligent decisions. An insider's look at the markets that goes behind the headlines to explain what makes the markets tick, it doesn't waste words on dubious day trading strategies or get-rich-quick schemes. Instead, it lays out the facts on today's wide-open investment marketplace, giving readers a rock-solid foundation for understanding the functions and uses of today's most popular securities.

In addition, The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options goes beyond its explanations of individual securities to pull back the curtain on the markets themselves. What are the trading rules for underwriters and broker-dealers? How can high-flying Internet stocks be accurately valued? How does one purchase a Treasury security? The answers to these and literally thousands of other questions are right here, exhaustively indexed and written in clear and accessible language for quick, reliable, and understandable answers.

Turn to this day-in, day-out reference for answers to questions, including:

-What are the steps in approving an initial public offering, and how can a broker or investor be sure of an IPO's real value?

-What is the relationship between bid/ask spread on Nasdaq stocks and the payout to brokers and broker-dealers?

-Can mutual fund investors legally be taxed on dividENDs and capital gains they never receive? If so, how can this taxation be avoided?

What do you want to know about today's investment world? Think of a question, then turn to the index. Chances are you'll find the answer'in direct, hard-hitting language, immediately accessible and understandable'which is the key to The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options. With so much territory to cover, it doesn't have time to waste breath on fluff and double-talk. A thorough primer for anyone who needs to know more about today's exciting investment world, this encyclopedic volume should be in your reference collection. It could well be the best investment you make this year.

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