Understanding Investments Theories and Strategies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laopodis, NIkiforos T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Investments.
Risk management.
Portfolio management.
Investissements.
Gestion du risque.
Gestion de portefeuille.
risk management.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to second edition
  • Preface to first edition
  • PART I INVESTMENT BASICS
  • 1 The investment framework
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 The general financial and economic environment
  • 1.2.1 Definition of investments
  • 1.2.2 The general investment environment
  • 1.2.2.1 Securities
  • 1.2.2.2 Classification of securities
  • 1.2.2.3 Types of investors
  • 1.2.3 Financial markets and intermediaries
  • 1.2.3.1 The roles of financial markets
  • 1.2.3.2 The roles of financial intermediaries
  • 1.3 The objectives and constraints of investors
  • 1.3.1 The objeetives of investors
  • MARKET FLASH Are you realizing your objectives?
  • 1.3.2 The constraints of investors
  • 1.4 The investment management process
  • 1.5 The role of investment information
  • 1.6 Agency and ethical issues in investing
  • 1.6.1 Asymmetric information
  • MARKET FLASH Reducing asymmetric information
  • 1.6.2 The agent-principal problem
  • MARKET FLASH Conflicts between managers and shareholders?
  • 1.6.3 Ethics in the marketplace
  • 1.6.4 Environmental, social, and governance
  • 1.6.4.1 Social responsibility issues
  • 1.6.4.2 Environmental issues
  • 1.6.4.3 Corporate governance issues
  • 1.7 So why study investments?
  • 1.8 Chapter summary
  • 1.9 The plan of the textbook
  • Applying economic analysis: Utility and efficiency
  • International focus: Causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 2008
  • Lessons of our times: Lessons of the global financial crisis
  • Key concepts
  • Questions and problems
  • 2 The investment decision process and investment strategies
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The investment process
  • 2.2.1 The investor policy statement
  • 2.2.2 The risk-return trade-off
  • 2.2.3 The asset allocation step in the investment process
  • 2.2.4 The security selection step in the investment process
  • MARKET FLASH What if the paradigm for long-term investing was to change?
  • 2.3 General investment philosophies and strategies
  • 2.3.1 Some prominent investment philosophies
  • 2.3.2 What is your investment philosophy?
  • 2.3.3 Some investment strategies
  • 2.3.3.1 Top-down and bottom-up approaches to investing
  • 2.3.3.2 Active and passive investment strategies:
  • MARKET FLASH Active or passive investment strategy?
  • 2.3.3.3 Other investment strategies
  • 2.3.3.4 Dollar-cost averaging
  • 2.3.3.5 Margin purchases and short sales
  • MARKET FLASH China cracks down on margin trading violations
  • MARKET FLASH Short sales gone bad
  • 2.4 Types of markets and orders
  • 2.4.1 Types of trading markets
  • 2.4.2 Types of trading orders
  • MARKET FLASH Tick sizes
  • 2.4.3 Finding the equilibrium price of a share
  • 2.5 Chapter summary
  • Applying economic analysis: Making investment decisions
  • International focus: Stocks or bonds amid a weak economic recovery?

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