Bodie, Kane, and Marcus’ Investments sets the standard for graduate/MBA
investments textbooks.
It blends practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate
rigor and a clear writing style. Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly
efficient, meaning that most securities are priced appropriately given their risk and
return attributes.
The text places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader
and deeper treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets than most
investment texts. It is also the only graduate Investments text to offer an online
homework management system, McGraw-Hill’s Connect Finance.
Table of Contents
Pt. I Introduction 1
1 The Investment Environment 1
2 Asset Classes and Financial Instruments 23
3 How Securities Are Traded 54
4 Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies 88
Pt. II Portfolio Theory and Practice
113
5 Learning about Return and Risk from the Historical Record 113
6 Risk Aversion and Capital Allocation to Risky
Assets 156
7 Optimal Risky Portfolios 194
8 Index Models 244
Pt. III Equilibrium in Capital Markets 279
9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model 279
10 Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Multifactor Models of Risk and Return 319
11 The Efficient Market Hypothesis 344
12 Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis 384
13 Empirical Evidence on Security Returns 410
Pt. IV Fixed-Income Securities 445
14 Bond Prices and Yields 445
15 The Term Structure of Interest Rates 484
16 Managing Bond Portfolios 512
Pt. V Security Analysis 553
17 Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis 553
18 Equity Valuation Models 586
19 Financial Statement Analysis 631
Pt. VI Options, Futures, and Other
Derivatives 671
20 Options Markets: Introduction 671
21 Option Valuation 715
22 Futures Markets 759
23 Futures, Swaps, and Risk Management 788
Pt. VII Applied Portfolio Management 823
24 Portfolio Performance Evaluation 823
25 International Diversification 867
26 Hedge Funds 902
27 The Theory of Active Portfolio Management 924
28 Investment Policy and the Framework of the CFA Institute 950
References to CFA Problems 989
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
1056 pages, Hardcover