This introduction to investments covers topics such as the investment environment, return and risk, equilibrium prices, efficient markets and portfolio performance, security analysis, and options, futures and financial engineering.
"A detailed look at the discipline of modern distressed investing. Investing in distressed securities/financially troubled credits is an approach that contains both great risk and opportunity. Occurrences from the recent credit crisis have changed this playing field immensely, n…
"A detailed look at the discipline of modern distressed investing. Investing in distressed securities/financially troubled credits is an approach that contains both great risk and opportunity. Occurrences from the recent credit crisis have changed this playing field immensely, n…
This book provides an analysis of the development of the Chinese securities market, with special reference to the information disclosure regimes in Mainland China, the UK, and Hong Kong. It examines the listed companies, stock exchanges, securities companies, financial intermedi…
This book provides an analysis of the development of the Chinese securities market, with special reference to the information disclosure regimes in Mainland China, the UK, and Hong Kong. It examines the listed companies, stock exchanges, securities companies, financial intermedi…
Europe and the governance of global finance
"This book charts and analyses this centrality of the European-global link in financial governance for the first time. Its chapters, written by experts in the specific fields, cover the whole breadth of financial markets. They range from banking, auditing and accounting to deriv…
The landscape of commodity markets has drastically changed in recent years. Once a market of refineries and mines, it has become the market of investment funds and commodity trading advisors. Given this transformation, are commodity investments still as beneficial as 20 or 30 ye…
Whereas the prices of individual company stocks respond rationally to unexpected news, movements in the market as a whole often do not behave in the same way. Indeed, they frequently appear perverse. Prices peak when economic news is bad; they respond only to good news when they…