Investments : a global perspective / Jack Francis, Roger Ibbotson
Imprint
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002
Descript
xxx, 885 p
CONTENT
Part 1: The investment setting -- Rates of return -- Introduction to valuation -- Analysis of financial statements -- Primary securities and their issuers -- The global stock market -- Statistical analysis and the SML -- Efficient capital markets and anomalies -- Futures and options -- Part 2: Investment indexes -- Creating price indexes -- Selected investment indexes -- Using indexes -- Part 3: Portfolio theory -- Asset allocation -- Portfolio analysis -- CAPM and APT -- Investment performance evaluation -- Part 4: International investing -- Foreign exchange -- Global investing -- Part 5: Fixed income investments -- Global bond markets -- Market interest rates -- Horizon risk and interest rate risk -- Credit risk -- Part 6: Equity shares -- Equity valuation - a micro view -- The issuer's earning power -- Stock valuation issues -- Technical analysis -- Part 7: Derivatves and alternative investments -- Futures -- Options -- Alternative investments