Customer Reviews

Investments 8th Edition

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This book remains a classic from my years at BU. However, later on i learned that you need to put the theory of it with real books from traders and hedge fund managers like Toby Crabel and Linda Raschke. They both are phenomenal personalities and their books are always out of print. You may be able still to find something on Ebay or Amazon. Good luck, this is a good book.

I think the book is well written, and that the way it explains some of the nuances with respect to portfolios are great. The one chapter that is kind of annoying is Chapter 5, because it gives another way to notate compounding interest.... confusing. Outside of that, the book has been an excellent reference for class.

Also, my comments are assuming that the user of this book is someone who has a Finance background. If this was for a beginner,...uhh, I think it would be quite the challenge.

I hope this is useful.

I took a graduate course which used this book and I thought that it was extremely well written. The examples are great and the material is interesting. Well worth the price.

Investments is a well written text book that has been updated frequently. It is refreshing to see examples in the book from 2007 that touch upon what is behind the failing of the lending institutions. It is easy to read and makes learning some rather complicated investment subjects easier. I would like to see more thorough examples on how to work through the various problems (either by calculator or by hand) that are assigned to the student. There is however links to the book's website that allows the student to use some excel spreadsheets to work through the books assigned problems. Overall it is an informative book that delivers on making the reader more intelligent on the finance subject.

To prepare for the new semester, I ordered the book and ended up receiving a much earlier version. Due to the so called dynamic inventory management, I was informed I could not exchange it for the correct version and could only get refund. Then I checked the items on Amazon and saw the price had been set higher than the one at which I placed my original order. unethical profiteer!

I loved this class and this book! Obviously you would need more than just the book to become a personal investor but its definitely a start.

This is our textbook. But it is not a good book. Sometimes you will get confused. I just read first two chapter, but I have picked up some flaws. Not recommended.

I have only read the first 4 chapters but it has a lot of information in it and I'm happy with the book so far.