Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: Introduction: The investment environment -- Asset classes and financial instruments -- How securities are traded -- Mutual funds an other investment companies -- Portfolio theory and practice: Risk, return and the historical record -- Capital allocation to risky assets -- Optimal risky portfolios -- Index models -- Equilibrium in capital markets: The capital asset pricing model -- Arbitrage pricing theory and multifactor models of risk and return -- Th efficient market hypothesis -- Behavioral finance and technical analysis -- Empirical evidence on security returns -- Fixed-income securities: Bond prices and yields -- The term structure of interest rates -- Managing bond portfolios -- Security analysis: Macroeconomic and industry analysis -- Equity valuation models -- Financial statement analysis -- Options, futures and other derivatives: Options markets: introduction -- Option valuation -- Futures markets -- Futures, swaps and risk management -- Applied portfolio management: Portfolio evaluation -- International diversification -- Hedge funds -- The theory of active portfolio management -- Investment policy and the framework of the CFA institute --