Essentials of Investments by Zvi Bodie

The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, Essentials of Investments, 9e by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus, emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. 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. The Ninth Edition includes increased attention to changes in market structure and trading technology while continuing to be organized around one basic theme - that security markets are nearly efficient.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

Contents

• Investments: Background and Issues
• Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
• Securities Markets
• Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies 
• Risk and Return: Past and Prologue
• Efficient Diversification
• Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
• The Efficient Market Hypothesis
• Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis
• Bond Prices and Yields
• Managing Bond Portfolios 
• Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
• Equity Valuation
• Financial Statement Analysis 
• Options Markets
• Option Valuation
• Futures Markets and Risk Management 
• Portfolio Performance Evaluation
• Globalization and International Investing
• Hedge Funds
• Taxes, Inflation, and Investment Strategy
• Investors and the Investment Process