Investments (Shaum's Outline)

Investment is an essential field of study for anyone in economics or business; a knowledge of the investment field and how its instruments operate has become indispensable for the general audience looking for channels for its capital, especially in these days of a wild and woolly stock market.

This second edition of Investments supplies a comprehensive guide to the field, with at least one chapter devoted to every major investment theory or school of thought, reinforced with many solved problems. The outline is ideal for supplementing another text, for quick reference, and for independent study.

1. Money Market Securities


2. Common and Preferred Stock


3. Corporate Bonds


4. The Time Value of Money


5. U.S.Treasury, Agency and Related Bonds


6. Municipal Bonds


7. Issuing and Trading Securities


8. Secondary Security Markets


9. Federal Investments Regulations


10. Security Market Indexes


11. Analysis of Financial Statements


12. Short Positions, Hedging, and Arbitrage


13. Total Risk and Risk Factors


14. Bond Valuation


15. Bond Portfolio Management


16. Common Stock Valuation


17. Technical Analysis


18. Efficient Markets Theory


19. Futures


20. Put and Call Options I


21. Put and Call Options II


22. Portfolio Analysis


23. Capital Market Theory


24. Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)


25. Portfolio Performance Evaluation


26. International Investing



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