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1 Investments: Background and Issues
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1.1 Real Assets Versus Financial Assets
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1.2 Financial Assets
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1.3 Financial Market and the Economy
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1.4 The Investment Process
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1.5 Markets are Competitive
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1.6 The Players
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1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008
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2 Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
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3 Security Markets
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3.1 How Firms Issue Securities
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3.2 How Securities are Traded
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3.3 The Rise of the Electronic Trading
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3.4 U.S. Markets
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3.5 New Trading Strategies
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3.6 Globalization of Stock Markets
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3.7 Trading Cost
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3.8 Buying on Margin
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3.9 Short Sales
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3.10 Regulation of Securities Markets
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4 Mutual Fund and Other Investment Company
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4.1 Investment Companies
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4.2 Type of Investment Companies
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4.3 Mutual Fund
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4.4 Costs of Investing Mutual Fund
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4.5 Taxation of Mutual Fund Income
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4.6 Exchange-Traded Funds
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4.7 Mutual Fund Investment Performance
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4.8 Information of Mutual Fund
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5 Risk and Return: Past and Prologue
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5.1 Rates of Return
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5.2 Inflation and the Real Rate of Interest
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5.3 Risk and Risk Premiums
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5.4 The Historical Record
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5.5 Asset Allocation across Risky and Risk-free Portfolio
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5.6 Passive Strategies and Capital Market Line
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6 Efficient Diversification
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6.1 Diversification and Portfolio Risk
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6.2 Asset Allocation with Two Risky Assets
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6.3 The Optimal Risky Portfolio with a Risk-free Asset
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6.4 Efficient Diversification with Many Risky Assets
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6.5 A Single-Index Stock Market
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6.6 Risk of Long Term Investment
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7 Capital Asset Prcing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
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7.1 The Capital Asset Pricing Model
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7.2 The CAPM and Index models
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7.3 The CAPM and the Real World
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7.4 Multifactor Models and the CAPM
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7.5 Arbitrage Pricing Theory
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8 The Efficient Market Hypothesis
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8.1 Random Walks and the Efficient
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8.2 Implications of the EMH
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8.3 Are Markets Efficient?
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8.4 Mutual Fund and Analyst Performance
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9 Bond Prices and Yields
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10 Equity Valuation
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10.1 Valuation by Comparables
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10.2 Intrinsic Value verse Market Price
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10.3 Dividend Discount Models
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10.4 Price Earning Ratios
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10.5 Free Cash Flow Valuation Approches
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10.6 The Aggregate Stock Market