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Essentials of Investments with S&P bind-in card (Irwin/McGraw-Hill Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate)

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The book is difficult to understand. Many of the graphs are not clearly labeled or explained. The formulas have random subscripts which are not clearly explained in words. Looks like someone just copy and pasted graphs and spreadsheets from excel and were too lazy to label them clearly. Not organized in easy to understand sections. Overall there are better books for intro to finance.

I'm using this book for my Investments class now. It's pretty decent; it neatly explains tough finance issues, and has fairly up to date information about recent events.

This is the worst textbook I have ever used. I am seeking an undergraduate degree and have some idea of how investments work, and am very good at math, but this book seems to complicate the simplest of formulas. There will be formulas that you have to know that will never get brought up. There will be limited explanations in the examples, and the powerpoint slides and excel slides that are available on the website are useless. You cannot expect to learn much more than the basics of investments if you use this book as your sole guide to investment analysis. Be prepared to pay for a tutor or to waste hours of your time trying to figure out the missing steps in this book. I am glad to be done with it.

This book is a classic textbook that gives readers a little bit of everything. Authors talk about elements of investments, portfolio theory, fixed-income securities, security analysis, derivative assets, and active investment management. It is a good book for beginners, but it is not the easiest thing to read.

- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

Great job. Book is in condition stated, ordered book got it within a couple of days. Keep up the good work.

The book was in great condition as it said it was. I received it promptly. Very pleased!

This book is very unorganized and hard to understand. I do not recommend this book to somebody that has a beginners knowledge of investments and actually wants to learn something.

Really really fast shipping, it was as fast as expedited shipping without actually being expedited. Other than some highlighting in the book, it is in nearly perfect condition for what was a really cheap price! Would definitely buy something from this seller again in the future.

I couldn't tell you how well the book is written because I never received it. Alibris sent me an email in Jan telling me it was shipped, but no tracking number, I emailed them about 1 week later they said it was the postal service taking long, emailed them another week later requesting the tracking number, they responded sorry if it doesn't come tomorrow we'll send out another one. Sent them an email 3 DAYS later and no response, no book, no tracking number. WORST PLACE TO BUY A BOOK FROM!

Worked on the Street for 20 years. This book neglects many aspects of the truth. Good for the Ivory Tower bunch, not realists.