Essentials of Investments

The market leading 'Essentials of Investments, 6e' by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. 'Essentials' maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).

Part 1: Elements of Investments
1- Investments: Background and Issues
2- Financial Securities
3- Securities Markets
4- Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies

Part 2: Portfolio Theory
5- Risk and Return: Past and Prologue
6- Efficient Diversification
7- Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
8- Efficient Markets and the Behavioral Critique

Part 3: Debt Securities
9- Bond Prices and Yields
10- Managing Bond Portfolios

Part 4: Security Analysis
11- Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
12- Equity Valuation
13- Financial Statement Analysis

Part 5: Derivative Markets
14- Options Markets
15- Option Valuation
16- Futures Markets

Part 6: Active Investment Management
17- Performance Evaluation and Active Portfolio Management
18- Globalization and International Investing
19- Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis
20- Taxes, Inflation, and Investment Strategy
21- Investors and the Investment Process