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Test Bank for Essentials of Investments, 11th Edition, Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan Marcus, ISBN10: 1260013928, ISBN13: 9781260013924

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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1260013928
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1260013924
  • Author: Zvi Bodie

The market leading undergraduate investments textbook, Essentials of Investments by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus, emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. The Eleventh Edition includes increased attention to changes in market structure and trading technology, while continuing to be organized around one basic theme – that security markets are nearly efficient.

Table contents:

  1. Part One: ELEMENTS OF INVESTMENTS
  2. Chapter 1 Investments: Background and Issues
  3. 1.1 Real Assets versus Financial Assets
  4. 1.2 Financial Assets
  5. 1.3 Financial Markets and the Economy
  6. The Informational Role of Financial Markets
  7. Consumption Timing
  8. Allocation of Risk
  9. Separation of Ownership and Management
  10. Corporate Governance and Corporate Ethics
  11. 1.4 The Investment Process
  12. 1.5 Markets Are Competitive
  13. The Risk-Return Trade-Off
  14. Efficient Markets
  15. 1.6 The Players
  16. Financial Intermediaries
  17. Investment Bankers
  18. Venture Capital and Private Equity
  19. 1.7 The Financial Crisis of 2008
  20. Antecedents of the Crisis
  21. Changes in Housing Finance
  22. Mortgage Derivatives
  23. Credit Default Swaps
  24. The Rise of Systemic Risk
  25. The Shoe Drops
  26. The Dodd-Frank Reform Act
  27. 1.8 Outline of the Text
  28. End-of-Chapter Material
  29. Chapter 2 Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
  30. 2.1 The Money Market
  31. Treasury Bills
  32. Certificates of Deposit
  33. Commercial Paper
  34. Bankers’ Acceptances
  35. Eurodollars
  36. Repos and Reverses
  37. Brokers’ Calls
  38. Federal Funds
  39. The LIBOR Market
  40. Yields on Money Market Instruments
  41. 2.2 The Bond Market
  42. Treasury Notes and Bonds
  43. Inflation-Protected Treasury Bonds
  44. Federal Agency Debt
  45. International Bonds
  46. Municipal Bonds
  47. Corporate Bonds
  48. Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities
  49. 2.3 Equity Securities
  50. Common Stock as Ownership Shares
  51. Characteristics of Common Stock
  52. Stock Market Listings
  53. Preferred Stock
  54. Depositary Receipts
  55. 2.4 Stock and Bond Market Indexes
  56. Stock Market Indexes
  57. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
  58. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index
  59. Other U.S. Market Value Indexes
  60. Equally Weighted Indexes
  61. Foreign and International Stock Market Indexes
  62. Bond Market Indicators
  63. 2.5 Derivative Markets
  64. Options
  65. Futures Contracts
  66. End-of-Chapter Material
  67. Chapter 3 Securities Markets
  68. 3.1 How Firms Issue Securities
  69. Privately Held Firms
  70. Publicly Traded Companies
  71. Shelf Registration
  72. Initial Public Offerings
  73. 3.2 How Securities are Traded
  74. Types of Markets
  75. Types of Orders
  76. Trading Mechanisms
  77. 3.3 The Rise of Electronic Trading
  78. 3.4 U.S. Markets
  79. NASDAQ
  80. The New York Stock Exchange
  81. ECNs
  82. 3.5 New Trading Strategies
  83. Algorithmic Trading
  84. High-Frequency Trading
  85. Dark Pools
  86. Bond Trading
  87. 3.6 Globalization of Stock Markets
  88. 3.7 Trading Costs
  89. 3.8 Buying on Margin
  90. 3.9 Short Sales
  91. 3.10 Regulation of Securities Markets
  92. Self-Regulation
  93. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  94. Insider Trading
  95. End-of-Chapter Material
  96. Chapter 4 Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
  97. 4.1 Investment Companies
  98. 4.2 Types of Investment Companies
  99. Unit Investment Trusts
  100. Managed Investment Companies
  101. Other Investment Organizations
  102. 4.3 Mutual Funds
  103. Investment Policies
  104. How Funds Are Sold
  105. 4.4 Costs of Investing in Mutual Funds
  106. Fee Structure
  107. Fees and Mutual Fund Returns
  108. 4.5 Taxation of Mutual Fund Income
  109. 4.6 Exchange-Traded Funds
  110. 4.7 Mutual Fund Investment Performance: A First Look
  111. 4.8 Information on Mutual Funds
  112. End-of-Chapter Material
  113. Part TWO: PORTFOLIO THEORY
  114. Chapter 5 Risk, Return, and the Historical Record
  115. 5.1 Rates of Return
  116. Measuring Investment Returns over Multiple Periods
  117. Conventions for Annualizing Rates of Return
  118. 5.2 Inflation and the Real Rate of Interest
  119. The Equilibrium Nominal Rate of Interest
  120. 5.3 Risk and Risk Premiums
  121. Scenario Analysis and Probability Distributions
  122. The Normal Distribution
  123. Normality and the Investment Horizon
  124. Deviation from Normality and Tail Risk
  125. Risk Premiums and Risk Aversion
  126. The Sharpe Ratio
  127. 5.4 The Historical Record
  128. Using Time Series of Returns
  129. Risk and Return: A First Look
  130. 5.5 Asset Allocation across Risky and Risk-Free Portfolios
  131. The Risk-Free Asset
  132. Portfolio Expected Return and Risk
  133. The Capital Allocation Line
  134. Risk Aversion and Capital Allocation
  135. 5.6 Passive Strategies and the Capital Market Line
  136. Historical Evidence on the Capital Market Line
  137. Costs and Benefits of Passive Investing
  138. End-of-Chapter Material
  139. Chapter 6 Efficient Diversification
  140. 6.1 Diversification and Portfolio Risk
  141. 6.2 Asset Allocation with Two Risky Assets
  142. Covariance and Correlation
  143. Using Historical Data
  144. The Three Rules of Two-Risky-Asset Portfolios
  145. The Risk-Return Trade-Off with Two-Risky-Assets Portfolios
  146. The Mean-Variance Criterion
  147. 6.3 The Optimal Risky Portfolio with a Risk-Free Asset
  148. 6.4 Efficient Diversification with Many Risky Assets
  149. The Efficient Frontier of Risky Assets
  150. Choosing the Optimal Risky Portfolio
  151. The Preferred Complete Portfolio and a Separation Property
  152. Constructing the Optimal Risky Portfolio: An Illustration
  153. 6.5 A Single-Index Stock Market
  154. Statistical Interpretation of the Single-Index Model
  155. Learning from the Index Model
  156. Using Security Analysis with the Index Model
  157. 6.6 Risk Pooling, Risk Sharing, and Time Diversification
  158. Time Diversification
  159. End-of-Chapter Material
  160. Chapter 7 Capital Asset Pricing and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
  161. 7.1 The Capital Asset Pricing Model
  162. The Model: Assumptions and Implications
  163. Why All Investors Would Hold the Market Portfolio
  164. The Passive Strategy Is Efficient
  165. The Risk Premium of the Market Portfolio
  166. Expected Returns on Individual Securities
  167. The Security Market Line
  168. Applications of the CAPM
  169. 7.2 The CAPM and Index Models
  170. 7.3 How Well Does the CAPM Predict Risk Premiums?
  171. 7.4 Multifactor Models and the CAPM
  172. The Fama-French Three-Factor Model
  173. Estimating a Three-Factor SML
  174. Multifactor Models and the Validity of the CAPM
  175. 7.5 Arbitrage Pricing Theory
  176. Diversification in a Single-Index Security Market
  177. Well-Diversified Portfolios
  178. The Security Market Line of the APT
  179. Individual Assets and the APT
  180. Well-Diversified Portfolios in Practice
  181. The APT and the CAPM
  182. Multifactor Generalization of the APT
  183. Smart Betas and Multifactor Models
  184. End-of-Chapter Material
  185. Chapter 8 The Efficient Market Hypothesis
  186. 8.1 Random Walks and Efficient Markets
  187. Competition as the Source of Efficiency
  188. Versions of the Efficient Market Hypothesis
  189. 8.2 Implications of the EMH
  190. Technical Analysis
  191. Fundamental Analysis
  192. Active versus Passive Portfolio Management
  193. The Role of Portfolio Management in an Efficient Market
  194. Resource Allocation
  195. 8.3 Are Markets Efficient?
  196. The Issues
  197. Weak-Form Tests: Patterns in Stock Returns
  198. Predictors of Broad Market Returns
  199. Semistrong Tests: Market Anomalies
  200. Strong-Form Tests: Inside Information
  201. Interpreting the Anomalies
  202. 8.4 Mutual Fund and Analyst Performance
  203. Stock Market Analysts
  204. Mutual Fund Managers
  205. So, Are Markets Efficient?
  206. End-of-Chapter Material
  207. Chapter 9 Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis
  208. 9.1 The Behavioral Critique
  209. Information Processing
  210. Behavioral Biases
  211. Limits to Arbitrage
  212. Limits to Arbitrage and the Law of One Price
  213. Bubbles and Behavioral Economics
  214. Evaluating the Behavioral Critique
  215. 9.2 Technical Analysis and Behavioral Finance
  216. Trends and Corrections
  217. Sentiment Indicators
  218. A Warning
  219. End-of-Chapter Material
  220. Part THREE: DEBT SECURITIES
  221. Chapter 10 Bond Prices and Yields
  222. 10.1 Bond Characteristics
  223. Treasury Bonds and Notes
  224. Corporate Bonds
  225. Preferred Stock
  226. Other Domestic Issuers
  227. International Bonds
  228. Innovation in the Bond Market
  229. 10.2 Bond Pricing
  230. Bond Pricing between Coupon Dates
  231. Bond Pricing in Excel
  232. 10.3 Bond Yields
  233. Yield to Maturity
  234. Yield to Call
  235. Realized Compound Return versus Yield to Maturity
  236. 10.4 Bond Prices over Time
  237. Yield to Maturity versus Holding-Period Return
  238. Zero-Coupon Bonds and Treasury STRIPS
  239. After-Tax Returns
  240. 10.5 Default Risk and Bond Pricing
  241. Junk Bonds
  242. Determinants of Bond Safety
  243. Bond Indentures
  244. Yield to Maturity and Default Risk
  245. Credit Default Swaps
  246. 10.6 The Yield Curve
  247. The Expectations Theory
  248. The Liquidity Preference Theory
  249. A Synthesis
  250. End-of-Chapter Material
  251. Chapter 11 Managing Bond Portfolios
  252. 11.1 Interest Rate Risk
  253. Interest Rate Sensitivity
  254. Duration
  255. What Determines Duration?
  256. 11.2 Passive Bond Management
  257. Immunization
  258. Cash Flow Matching and Dedication
  259. 11.3 Convexity
  260. Why Do Investors Like Convexity?
  261. 11.4 Active Bond Management
  262. Sources of Potential Profit
  263. Horizon Analysis
  264. An Example of a Fixed-Income Investment Strategy
  265. End-of-Chapter Material
  266. Part FOUR: SECURITY ANALYSIS
  267. Chapter 12 Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis
  268. 12.1 The Global Economy
  269. 12.2 The Domestic Macroeconomy
  270. Gross Domestic Product
  271. Employment
  272. Inflation
  273. Interest Rates
  274. Budget Deficit
  275. Sentiment
  276. 12.3 Interest Rates
  277. 12.4 Demand and Supply Shocks
  278. 12.5 Federal Government Policy
  279. Fiscal Policy
  280. Monetary Policy
  281. Supply-Side Policies
  282. 12.6 Business Cycles
  283. The Business Cycle
  284. Economic Indicators
  285. Other Indicators
  286. 12.7 Industry Analysis
  287. Defining an Industry
  288. Sensitivity to the Business Cycle
  289. Sector Rotation
  290. Industry Life Cycles
  291. Industry Structure and Performance
  292. End-of-Chapter Material
  293. Chapter 13 Equity Valuation
  294. 13.1 Valuation by Comparables
  295. Limitations of Book Value
  296. 13.2 Intrinsic Value versus Market Price
  297. 13.3 Dividend Discount Models
  298. The Constant-Growth DDM
  299. Stock Prices and Investment Opportunities
  300. Life Cycles and Multistage Growth Models
  301. Multistage Growth Models
  302. 13.4 Price–Earnings Ratios
  303. The Price–Earnings Ratio and Growth Opportunities
  304. P/E Ratios and Stock Risk
  305. Pitfalls in P/E Analysis
  306. Combining P/E Analysis and the DDM
  307. Other Comparative Valuation Ratios
  308. 13.5 Free Cash Flow Valuation Approaches
  309. Comparing the Valuation Models
  310. The Problem with DCF Models
  311. 13.6 The Aggregate Stock Market
  312. End-of-Chapter Material
  313. Chapter 14 Financial Statement Analysis
  314. 14.1 The Major Financial Statements
  315. The Income Statement
  316. The Balance Sheet
  317. The Statement of Cash Flows
  318. 14.2 Measuring Firm Performance
  319. 14.3 Profitability Measures
  320. Return on Assets
  321. Return on Capital
  322. Return on Equity
  323. Financial Leverage and ROE
  324. Economic Value Added
  325. 14.4 Ratio Analysis
  326. Decomposition of ROE
  327. Turnover and Asset Utilization
  328. Liquidity Ratios
  329. Market Price Ratios
  330. Choosing a Benchmark
  331. 14.5 An Illustration of Financial Statement Analysis
  332. 14.6 Comparability Problems
  333. Inventory Valuation
  334. Depreciation
  335. Inflation and Interest Expense
  336. Fair Value Accounting
  337. Quality of Earnings and Accounting Practices
  338. International Accounting Conventions
  339. 14.7 Value Investing: The Graham Technique
  340. End-of-Chapter Material
  341. Part FIVE: DERIVATIVE MARKETS
  342. Chapter 15 Options Markets
  343. 15.1 The Option Contract
  344. Options Trading
  345. American and European Options
  346. The Option Clearing Corporation
  347. Other Listed Options
  348. 15.2 Values of Options at Expiration
  349. Call Options
  350. Put Options
  351. Options versus Stock Investments
  352. 15.3 Option Strategies
  353. 15.4 Optionlike Securities
  354. Callable Bonds
  355. Convertible Securities
  356. Warrants
  357. Collateralized Loans
  358. Leveraged Equity and Risky Debt
  359. 15.5 Exotic Options
  360. Asian Options
  361. Currency-Translated Options
  362. Digital Options
  363. End-of-Chapter Material
  364. Chapter 16 Option Valuation
  365. 16.1 Option Valuation: Introduction
  366. Intrinsic and Time Values
  367. Determinants of Option Values
  368. 16.2 Binomial Option Pricing
  369. Two-State Option Pricing
  370. Generalizing the Two-State Approach
  371. Making the Valuation Model Practical
  372. 16.3 Black-Scholes Option Valuation
  373. The Black-Scholes Formula
  374. The Put-Call Parity Relationship
  375. Put Option Valuation
  376. 16.4 Using the Black-Scholes Formula
  377. Hedge Ratios and the Black-Scholes Formula
  378. Portfolio Insurance
  379. Option Pricing and the Crisis of 2008–2009
  380. 16.5 Empirical Evidence
  381. End-of-Chapter Material
  382. Chapter 17 Futures Markets and Risk Management
  383. 17.1 The Futures Contract
  384. The Basics of Futures Contracts
  385. Existing Contracts
  386. 17.2 Trading Mechanics
  387. The Clearinghouse and Open Interest
  388. Marking to Market and the Margin Account
  389. Cash versus Actual Delivery
  390. Regulations
  391. Taxation
  392. 17.3 Futures Market Strategies
  393. Hedging and Speculation
  394. Basis Risk and Hedging
  395. 17.4 Futures Prices
  396. Spot-Futures Parity
  397. Spreads
  398. 17.5 Financial Futures
  399. Stock-Index Futures
  400. Foreign Exchange Futures
  401. Interest Rate Futures
  402. 17.6 Swaps
  403. Swaps and Balance Sheet Restructuring
  404. The Swap Dealer
  405. End-of-Chapter Material
  406. Part SIX: ACTIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
  407. Chapter 18 Evaluating Investment Performance
  408. 18.1 The Conventional Theory of Performance Evaluation
  409. Average Rates of Return
  410. Time-Weighted Returns versus Dollar-Weighted Returns
  411. Adjusting Returns for Risk
  412. Risk-Adjusted Performance Measures
  413. The Sharpe Ratio for Overall Portfolios
  414. The Treynor Ratio
  415. The Information Ratio
  416. The Role of Alpha in Performance Measures
  417. Implementing Performance Measurement: An Example
  418. Selection Bias and Portfolio Evaluation
  419. 18.2 Style Analysis
  420. 18.3 Morningstar’s Risk-Adjusted Rating
  421. 18.4 Performance Measurement with Changing Portfolio Composition
  422. 18.5 Market Timing
  423. The Potential Value of Market Timing
  424. Valuing Market Timing as a Call Option
  425. The Value of Imperfect Forecasting
  426. 18.6 Performance Attribution Procedures
  427. Asset Allocation Decisions
  428. Sector and Security Selection Decisions
  429. Summing Up Component Contributions
  430. End-of-Chapter Material
  431. Chapter 19 International Diversification
  432. 19.1 Global Markets for Equities
  433. Developed Countries
  434. Emerging Markets
  435. Market Capitalization and GDP
  436. Home-Country Bias
  437. 19.2 Exchange Rate Risk and International Diversification
  438. Exchange Rate Risk
  439. Imperfect Exchange Rate Risk Hedging
  440. Investment Risk in International Markets
  441. International Diversification
  442. Are Benefits from International Diversification Preserved in Bear Markets?
  443. 19.3 Political Risk
  444. 19.4 International Investing and Performance Attribution
  445. Constructing a Benchmark Portfolio of Foreign Assets
  446. Performance Attribution
  447. End-of-Chapter Material
  448. Chapter 20 Hedge Funds
  449. 20.1 Hedge Funds versus Mutual Funds
  450. 20.2 Hedge Fund Strategies
  451. Directional versus Nondirectional Strategies
  452. Statistical Arbitrage
  453. 20.3 Portable Alpha
  454. An Example of a Pure Play
  455. 20.4 Style Analysis for Hedge Funds
  456. 20.5 Performance Measurement for Hedge Funds
  457. Liquidity and Hedge Fund Performance
  458. Hedge Fund Performance and Selection Bias
  459. Hedge Fund Performance and Changing Factor Loadings
  460. Tail Events and Hedge Fund Performance
  461. 20.6 Fee Structure in Hedge Funds
  462. End-of-Chapter Material
  463. Chapter 21 Taxes, Inflation, and Investment Strategy
  464. 21.1 Saving for the Long Run
  465. A Hypothetical Household
  466. The Retirement Annuity
  467. 21.2 Accounting for Inflation
  468. A Real Savings Plan
  469. An Alternative Savings Plan
  470. 21.3 Accounting for Taxes
  471. 21.4 The Economics of Tax Shelters
  472. A Benchmark Tax Shelter
  473. The Effect of the Progressive Nature of the Tax Code
  474. 21.5 A Menu of Tax Shelters
  475. Defined Benefit Plans
  476. Defined Contribution Plans
  477. Individual Retirement Accounts
  478. Roth Accounts with the Progressive Tax Code
  479. Risky Investments and Capital Gains as Tax Shelters
  480. Sheltered versus Unsheltered Savings
  481. 21.6 Social Security
  482. 21.7 Large Purchases
  483. 21.8 Home Ownership: The Rent-versus-Buy Decision
  484. 21.9 Uncertain Longevity and Other Contingencies
  485. 21.10 Matrimony, Bequest, and Intergenerational Transfers
  486. End-of-Chapter Material
  487. Chapter 22 Investors and the Investment Process
  488. 22.1 The Investment Management Process
  489. 22.2 Investor Objectives
  490. Individual Investors
  491. Professional Investors
  492. Life Insurance Companies
  493. Non-Life-Insurance Companies
  494. Banks
  495. Endowment Funds
  496. 22.3 Investor Constraints
  497. Liquidity
  498. Investment Horizon
  499. Regulations
  500. Tax Considerations
  501. Unique Needs
  502. 22.4 Investment Policies
  503. Top-Down Policies for Institutional Investors
  504. Active versus Passive Policies
  505. 22.5 Monitoring and Revising Investment Portfolios
  506. End-of-Chapter Material
  507. Appendixes
  508. A References
  509. B References to CFA Questions
  510. Index

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