Part 1: Elements of Investments 1- Investments: Background and Issues 2- Asset Classes and Financial Instruments 3- Securities Markets 4- Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies Part 2: Portfolio Theory 5- Risk and Return: Past and Prologue 6- Efficient Diversification 7- Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory 8- The Efficient Market Hypothesis 9- Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis Part 3: Debt Securities 10- Bond Prices and Yields 11- Managing Bond Portfolios Part 4: Security Analysis 12- Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis 13- Equity Valuation 14- Financial Statement Analysis Part 5: Derivative Markets 15- Options Markets 16- Option Valuation 17- Futures Markets and Risk Management Part 6: Active Investment Management 18- Portfolio Performance Evaluation 19- Globalization and International Investing 20- Hedge Funds 21- Taxes, Inflation, and Investment Strategy 22- Investors and the Investment Process
Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, where he
taught from 1973 to 2016. Today, he is an independent
financial consultant and educator. His main professional
interest is to firmly establish finance as an applied science built
on the principles explained in his books and websites. He
holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School
and MIT's Sloan School of Management. His textbook Financial
Economics coauthored by Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert C.
Merton has been translated into 9 languages. In addition to
his textbooks, Bodie has coauthored two books for the mass market:
Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing and Worry-Free
Investing A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial
Goals. In 2007, the Retirement Income Industry Association
gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research.
He has authored and edited many books and articles on pensions and
investing for retirement. With the support of the Research
Foundation of the CFA Institute, he organized a series of 3
conferences on the theory and practice of life-cycle finance.
Currently he serves as senior advisor to the Investments and Wealth
Institute and consults for a number of financial firms including
Dimensional Fund Advisors. Professor of finance and economics
at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific
Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has been
visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of
Tokyo; Graduate School of Business, Harvard; Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard; and research associate, National Bureau of
Economic Research. An author of many articles in finance and
management journals, Professor Kane’s research is mainly in
corporate finance, portfolio management, and capital markets, most
recently in the measurement of market volatility and pricing of
options.
Alan J. Marcus is a Professor of Finance in the Wallace E. Carroll
School of Management at Boston College. His main research interests
are in derivatives and securities markets. He is co-author (with
Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane) of the texts Investments and Essentials of
Investments. Professor Marcus has served as a research fellow at
the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus also
spent two years at Freddie Mac, where he helped to develop mortgage
pricing and credit risk models. He currently serves on the Research
Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.
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