TY - BOOK AU - Bodie,Zvi AU - Kane,Alex AU - Marcus,Alan J. TI - Investments SN - 9780071263252 AV - HG4521 .B564 PY - 2009/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin, KW - Investments N1 - Previous edition: Boston, Mass.; McGraw-Hill/Irwin; The investment environment -- Asset classes and financial instruments -- How securities are traded -- Mutual funds and other investment companies -- Learning about return and risk from the historical record -- Risk aversion and capital allocation to risky assets -- Optimal risky portfolios -- Index models -- The capital asset pricing model -- Arbitrage pricing theory and multifactor models of risk and return -- The efficient market hypothesis -- Behavioral finance and technical analysis -- Empirical evidence on security returns -- Bond prices and yields -- The term structure of interest rates -- Managing bond portfolios -- Macroeconomic and industry analysis -- Equity valuation models -- Financial statement analysis -- Options markets: introduction -- Option valuation -- Futures markets -- Futures, swaps, and risk management -- Portfolio performance evaluation -- International diversification -- Hedge funds -- The theory of active portfolio management -- Investment policy and the framework of the CFA Institute ER -