TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,Bradford D.
AU  - Miller,Thomas W.
AU  - Dolvin,Steven D.
TI  - Fundamentals of investments: valuation and management 
T2  - The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series in finance, insurance and real estate
SN  - 9780077457648 (alk. paper)
AV  - HG4521 .C66 2012
U1  - 332.6 22
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill Irwin
KW  - Investments
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; PART ONE: IntroductionCh. 1 A Brief History of Risk and ReturnCh. 2 The Investment ProcessCh. 3 Overview of Security TipsCh. 4 Mutual Funds and Other Investment CompaniesPART TWO: Stock MarketsCh. 5 The Stock MarketCh. 6 Common Stock ValuationCh. 7 Stock Price Behavior and Market EfficiencyCh. 8 Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of InvestingPART THREE: Interest Rates and Bond ValuationCh. 9 Interest RatesCh. 10 Bond Prices and YieldsPART FOUR: Portfolio ManagementCh. 11 Diversification and Risky Asset AllocationCh. 12 Return, Risk, and the Security Market LineCh. 13 Performance Evaluation and Risk ManagementPART FIVE: Futures and OptionsCh. 14 Futures ContractsCh. 15 Stock OptionsCh. 16 Option ValuationPART SIX: Topics in InvestmentsCh. 17 Alternative InvestmentsCh. 18 Corporate and Government BondsCh. 19 Projecting Cash Flow and EarningsCh. 20 Global Economic Activity and Industry AnalysisONLINE CHAPTERCh. 21 Mortgage-Backed SecuritiesAPPENDICESA Answers to Test Your Investment Quotient QuestionsB Answers to Selected Questions and ProblemsC Key Equations

N2  - "Traditionally, investments textbooks tend to fall into one of two camps. The first type has a greater focus on portfolio management and covers a significant amount of portfolio theory. The second type is more concerned with security analysis and generally contains fairly detailed coverage of fundamental analysis as a tool for equity valuation. Today, most texts try to cover all the bases by including some chapters drawn from one camp and some from another. The result of trying to cover everything is either a very long book or one that forces the instructor to bounce back and forth between chapters. This frequently leads to a noticeable lack of consistency in treatment. Differ-ent chapters have completely different approaches: Some are computational, some are theoretical, and some are descriptive. Some do macroeconomic forecasting, some do mean-variance portfolio theory and beta estimation, and some do financial statements analysis. Options and futures are often essentially tacked on the back to round out this disconnected assortment"--
ER  -