About the Book
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Psychology of Personal Investment Decisions
- Basics of Money, Bond and Property Markets
- Chapter 3: Interest Rates and Money Market Investments
- Chapter 4: Investing in Bonds
- Chapter 5: Property Investment and Mortgages
- Basics of Stock Markets
- Chapter 6: Stock Exchanges
- Chapter 7: Stock Indices
- Chapter 8: The Rationale and Conduct of Regulation
- Institutional Investments
- Chapter 9: Mutual Funds (Unit Trusts, OEICs, Investment Trusts)
- Chapter 10: Life Assurance and Assurance-Related Investments
- Chapter 11: Pensions
- Chapter 12: The Importance and Significance of Institutional Investors
- Capital Market Theory
- Chapter 13: Portfolio Diversification
- Chapter 14: Capital Market Theory: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Chapter 15: Capital Market Theory: Alternatives and Criticisms
- Portfolio Management
- Chapter 16: Styles of Portfolio Construction
- Chapter 17: Evaluating the Performance of Fund Managers
- Investment Analysis
- Chapter 18: The Economic Environment
- Chapter 19: Dividend Discount Models
- Chapter 20: Company Accounts and Economic Value Added
- Chapter 21: Ratio Analysis
- Chapter 22: Technical Analysis
- Market Efficiency
- Chapter 23: Market Efficiency: Concepts and Weak Form Evidence
- Chapter 24: Noise Trading and Behavioural Finance
- Chapter 25: Market Anomalies
- Chapter 26: Further Evidence on Market Efficiency
- Chapter 27: Stock Market Bubbles and Crashes
- Stock Index Futures
- Chapter 28: Stock Index Futures
- Chapter 29: Stock Index Futures Prices
- Chapter 30: Hedging with Stock Index Futures
- Stock Options
- Chapter 31: Stock Options
- Chapter 32: Speculation with Stock Options
- Chapter 33: Hedging with Options
- Chapter 34: Structured Products
- Chapter 35: Warrants, Convertibles, and Split-Caps
- Chapter 36: Option Pricing and the Black-Scholes Model
- Chapter 37: Variations on the Basic Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model
- Chapter 38: The Binomial Option Pricing Model
- International Investing: Using Currency Derivatives
- Chapter 39: Currency Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options
- Bond and Interest Rate Analysis
- Chapter 40: Bond Prices and Redemption Yields
- Chapter 41: Duration and Risk
- Chapter 42: Bond Price Convexity
- Chapter 43: Bond Futures
- Chapter 44: Yield Curves and Interest Rate Futures
- Chapter 45: Interest Rate Swaps
- Glossary
- References