Investments
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- New Delhi Tata McGraw Hill 2009
- xxxi, 1083 P 24 cm ; Pbk
The investment environment -- Financial instruments -- How securities are traded -- Mutual funds and other investment companies -- Portfolio theory -- History of interest rates and risk premiums -- Risk and risk aversion -- Capital allocation between the risky asset and the risk-free asset -- Optimal risky portfolios -- Equilibrium in capital markets -- The capital asset pricing model -- Index models -- Arbitrage pricing theory and multifactor models of risk and return -- Market efficiency and behavioral finance -- Empirical evidence on security returns -- Fixed-income securities -- Bond prices and yields -- The term structure of interest rates -- Managing bond portfolios -- Security analysis -- Macroeconomic and industry analysis -- Equity valuation models -- Financial statement analysis -- Options, futures, and other derivatives -- Options markets: introduction -- Option valuation -- Futures markets -- Futures and swaps: a closer look -- Active portfolio management -- Portfolio performance evaluation -- International diversification -- The process of portfolio management -- The theory of active portfolio management.