Includes index.

Contents: Elements of investments: Investments: background and issues -- Financial securities -- Securities markets -- Mutual funds and other investment companies -- Portfolio theory: Risk and return: past and prologue -- Efficient diversification -- Capital asset pricing and arbitrage pricing theory -- Efficient markets and the behavioural critique -- Debt securities: Bond prices and yields -- Managing bond portfolios -- Security analysis: Macroeconomics and industry analysis -- Equity valuation -- Financial statement analysis -- Derivative markets: Options markets -- Option valuation -- Futures markets -- Active investment management: Performance evaluation and active portfolio management -- Globalization and international investing -- Behavioural finance and technical analysis -- Taxes, inflation and investment strategy -- Investors and the investment process -- Appendix A: References -- Appendix B: References to CFA questions.