Investments + Standard and Poor's Educational Version of Market Insight (Irwin/McGraw-Hill Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) (Hardcover)

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Bodie, Kane, and Marcus' INVESTMENTS is the leading textbook for the graduate/MBA investments market. It is recognized as the best blend of practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate rigor and clear writing style. Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are usually priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. The text places greater emphasis on asset allocation, and offers a much broader and deeper treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets than most investment texts.

About the Author

Zvi Bodie is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Boston University School of Management. He is the director of Boston University’s Chartered Financial Analysts Examination Review Program and has served as consultant to many private and governmental organizations. Professor Bodie is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he was director of the NBER Project on Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, and he is a member of the Pension Research Council of The Wharton School. He is widely published in leading professional journals, and his previous books include Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System.

Alex Kane is professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He was visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo; Graduate School of Business, Harvard; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. An author of many articles in finance and management journals, Professor Kane’s research is mainly in corporate finance, portfolio management, and capital markets, most recently in the measurement of market volatility and the pricing of options. Professor Kane is the developer of the International Simulation Laboratory (ISL) for training and experimental research in executive decision making.

Alan Marcus is professor of finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PHD in Economics from MIT in 1981. Professor Marcus recently has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also established the Chartered Financial Analysts Review Program at Boston College. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management, with an emphasis on applications of futures and options pricing models. His consulting work has ranged from new product development to provision of expert testimony in utility rate proceedings. He also spend two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk, and he currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Currency Risk Management Alliance of State Street Bank and Windham Capital Management Boston.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 990 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 8 edition (June 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0077261453
• ISBN-13: 978-0077261450
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,645 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I had to read Investments for class but I am better because of it, January 5, 2009

By	A. Freeman (Las Vegas,NV USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So far so good, February 19, 2009

By	A. Bear (Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent experience, June 22, 2009

By	Jose A. Vasconcelos "brazilian mba" (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book was in perfect condition as promised and the delivery was fast and without problems.