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
In this book, the author draws from finance, psychology, economics, and other disciplines in business and the social sciences, recognising that personal finance and investments are subjects of study in their own right rather than merely branches of another discipline.
Considerable attention is given to topics which are either ignored or given very little attention in other texts. These include:
the psychology of investment decision-making stock market bubbles and crashes property investment the use of derivatives in investment management regulation of investments business. More traditional subject areas are also thoroughly covered, including:
investment analysis portfolio management capital market theory market efficiency international investing bond markets institutional investments option pricing macroeconomics the interpretation of company accounts. Packed with over one hundred exercises, examples and exhibits and a helpful glossary of key terms, this book helps readers grasp the relevant principles of money management. It avoids non-essential mathematics and provides a novel new approach to the study of personal finance and investments.
This book will be essential for students and researchers engaged with personal finance, investments, behavioural finance, financial derivatives and financial economics.
This book also comes with a supporting website that includes two updated chapters, a new article featuring a behavioural model of the dot com, further exercises, a full glossary and a regularly updated blog from the author.