Issues in Economics Today or Fundamentals of Investment Management with S P Access Code

Issues in Economics Today

Author: Robert Guell

Robert Guell's Issues in Economics Today, 2e employs a unique format that allows instructors and students the flexibility to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. The book begins with eight intensive core theory chapters followed by thirty shorter issues chapters that can be easily mixed and matched to create a customized course syllabus. Two additional issues chapters can be found on the book's website. In the preface, the author provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. For those instructors who want to "do it themselves," the author has also included a grid that shows which theory chapters need to be mastered before moving on to each issue.Instructors and students alike will appreciate the solid theoretical foundation as well as the intriguing and timely economic issues explored in the book, such as sports, education, and crime.

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Fundamentals of Investment Management with S&P access Code

Author: Geoffrey A Hirt

Fundamentals of Investment Management 8/e by Hirt and Block establishes the appropriate theoretical base of investments, while at the same time applying this theory to real-world examples. Students will be able to translate what they have learned in the course to actual participation in the financial markets. The textbook provides students with a survey of the important areas of investments: valuation, the marketplace, fixed income instruments and markets, equity instruments and markets, derivative instruments, and a cross-section of special topics, such as international markets and mutual funds.

Table of Contents:

BRIEF CONTENTS

PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENTS

1. The Investment Setting

2.
Security Markets: Present and Future

3.
Participating in the Market

4.
Sources of Investment Information

PART TWO ANALYSIS AND VALUATION OF EQUITY SECURITIES

5.
Economic Activity

6.
Industry Analysis

7.
Valuation of the Individual Firm

8.
Financial Statement Analysis

PART THREE ISSUES IN EFFICIENT MARKETS

9.
A Basic View of Technical Analysis and Market Efficiency

10. Investments in Special Situations and Anomalies

PART FOUR FIXED-INCOME AND LEVERAGED SECURITIES

11.
Bond and Fixed-Income Fundamental

12.
Principles of Bond Valuation and Investment

13.
Duration and Reinvestment Concepts

14.
Convertible Securities and Warrants

PART FIVE DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS

15.
Put and Call Options

16.
Commodities and Financial Futures

17.
Stock Index Futures and Options

PART SIX BROADENING THE INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE

18.
Mutual Funds

19.
International Security Markets

20.
Investments in Real Assets

PART SEVEN INTRODUCTION TO PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

21.
A Basic Look at Portfolio Management and Capital Market Theory

22.
Measuring Risk and Return of Portfolio Managers