Personal Finance and Investments
A Behavioural Finance Perspective
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-42862-0
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 09/15/2008
- Pages: 936
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 - The Psychology of Personal Investment Decisions, Basics of Money, Bond and Property Markets
Chapter 3 Interest Rates and Money Market Investments
Chapter 4 - Investing in Bonds
Chapter 5 Property Investment and Mortgages, Basics of Stock Markets
Chapter 6 - Stock Exchanges
Chapter 7 - Stock Indices
Chapter 8 - The Rationale and Conduct of Regulation, Institutional Investments
Chapter 9 - Mutual Funds (Unit Trusts, OEICs, Investment Trusts)
Chapter 10 - Life Assurance and Assurance-Related Investments
Chapter 11 - Pensions
Chapter 12 - The Importance and Significance of Institutional Investors, Capital Market Theory
Chapter 13 - Portfolio Diversification
Chapter 14 - Capital Market Theory: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 15 - Capital Market Theory: Alternatives and Criticisms, Portfolio Management
Chapter 16 - Styles of Portfolio Construction
Chapter 17 - Evaluating the Performance of Fund Managers, Investment Analysis
Chapter 18 - The Economic Environment
Chapter 19 - Dividend Discount Models
Chapter 20 - Company Accounts and Economic Value Added
Chapter 21 Ratio Analysis
Chapter 22 - Technical Analysis, Market Efficiency
Chapter 23 - Market Efficiency: Concepts and Weak Form Evidence
Chapter 24 - Noise Trading and Behavioural Finance
Chapter 25 - Market Anomalies
Chapter 26 - Further Evidence on Market Efficiency
Chapter 27 - Stock Market Bubbles and Crashes, Stock Index Futures
Chapter 28 - Stock Index Futures
Chapter 29 - Stock Index Futures Prices
Chapter 30 - Hedging with Stock Index Futures, Stock Options
Chapter 31 - Stock Options
Chapter 32 Speculation with Stock Options
Chapter 33 - Hedging with Options
Chapter 34 Structured Products
Chapter 35 Warrants, Convertibles, and Split-Caps
Chapter 36 Option Pricing and the Black-Scholes Model
Chapter 37 Variations on the Basic Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model
Chapter 38 The Binomial Option Pricing Model, International Investing: Using Currency Derivatives
Chapter 39 - Currency Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options, Bond and Interest Rate Analysis
Chapter 40 - Bond Prices and Redemption Yields
Chapter 41 - Duration and Risk
Chapter 42 - Bond Price Convexity
Chapter 43 - Bond Futures
Chapter 44 -Yield Curves and Interest Rate Futures
Chapter 45 Interest Rate Swaps

