TY - BOOK AU - Bodie, Z; Kane, A; Marcus, A J.; Mohanty, P TI - Investments SN - 978-0070151574 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Tata McGraw Hill KW - Investments N1 - 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 ER -