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Financial Markets and Investments
About this book
The book serves as an educational resource for financial markets and investment courses, targeted at students with foundational knowledge in economics and statistics. Its goal is to provide a hands-on approach to various subjects while upholding the academic integrity of rigorous, literature-based analysis. Positioned between introductory and intermediate levels, the book' s content aims to be practical. It begins with fundamental concepts of asset pricing and risk premiums and extends to employ these principles in areas such as portfolio optimization, stock valuation, private assets, and sustainability. Therefore, professionals may find the book useful, and certain chapters could be effectively integrated into executive education programs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Description
- Biography
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Financial markets
- 2 Asset returns
- 3 Rational financial choices and the utility function
- 4 Behavioral finance
- 5 Sovereign bonds
- 6 Risk and management of bond portfolios
- 7 The expected return/risk trade-off and the benefits of diversification
- 8 The efficient frontier and the optimal portfolio
- 9 The capital asset pricing model
- 10 Picking stocks and investing with style
- 11 Theory and practice of multifactor models
- 12 Prices and values
- 13 Market efficiency
- 14 Private assets
- 15 Sustainability and ESG investing
- Bibliography