Investments / by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Alan, J. Marcus.

Includes Bibliographic references and Index.

The investment environment -- Asset classes and financial instruments -- How securities are traded -- Mutual funds and other investment companies -- Risk, return, and the historical record -- Capital allocation to risky assets -- Efficient diversification -- Index models -- The capital assets pricing models -- 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 -- Macroeconomics and industrial analysis -- Equity Valuation models -- Financial statements analysis -- Option markets: introduction -- Option valuation -- Futures markets -- Futures, swaps, and risk management --Portfolio performance Evaluation -- International diversification -- Alternative assets -- The theory of active portfolio management -- investment policy and the frame work of the CFA institute.