Routledge

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