Finance: Financial Markets, Business Finance, and Asset Management

  • 15h 7m
  • Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2009

Created by the experienced author team of Frank Fabozzi and Pamela Peterson Drake, Finance examines the essential elements of this discipline and makes them accessible to a wide array of readers-from seasoned veterans looking for a review to newcomers needing to get their footing in finance.

Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with a detailed discussion of the basic tools of investing and financing decision-making—financial mathematics and financial analysis. After this informative introduction, you'll quickly become familiar with the three primary areas of finance—capital markets (Part II), financial management (Part III), and investment/asset management (Part IV)?-and discover how these different areas are interconnected.

Finance is a well-rounded guide to this dynamic field. The straightforward insights found here will put you in a better position to understand what the principles of modern finance are and how they can be used to make the right decisions when managing risk and return in today's complex financial environment.

In this Book

  • Preface
  • What Is Finance?
  • Mathematics of Finance
  • Basics of Financial Analysis
  • The Financial System
  • Interest Rate Determination and the Structure of Interest Rates
  • Basics of Derivatives
  • Asset Valuation: Basic Bond and Stock Valuation Models
  • Asset Valuation: The Theory of Asset Pricing
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Strategy and Financial Planning
  • The Corporate Financing Decision
  • Financial Engineering, Asset Securitization, and Project Financing
  • Capital Budgeting: Process and Cash Flow Estimation
  • Capital Budgeting Techniques
  • Managing Current Assets
  • Financial Risk Management
  • The Basic Principles of Investment Management
  • Equity Portfolio Management
  • Bond Portfolio Management
  • Use of Stock Index Futures and Treasury Futures Contracts in Portfolio Management
  • Use of Options in Portfolio Management
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