Bodie, Kane, and Marcus’ Investments sets the standard for graduate/MBA investments textbooks. It blends practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate rigor and a clear writing style. Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. The text places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader and deeper treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets than most investment texts. It is also the only graduate Investments text to offer an online homework management system, McGraw-Hill’s Connect Finance.

Pt. I Introduction 1 1 The Investment Environment 1 2 Asset Classes and Financial Instruments 23 3 How Securities Are Traded 54 4 Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies 88 Pt. II Portfolio Theory and Practice 113 5 Learning about Return and Risk from the Historical Record 113 6 Risk Aversion and Capital Allocation to Risky Assets 156 7 Optimal Risky Portfolios 194 8 Index Models 244 Pt. III Equilibrium in Capital Markets 279 9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model 279 10 Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Multifactor Models of Risk and Return 319 11 The Efficient Market Hypothesis 344 12 Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis 384 13 Empirical Evidence on Security Returns 410 Pt. IV Fixed-Income Securities 445 14 Bond Prices and Yields 445 15 The Term Structure of Interest Rates 484 16 Managing Bond Portfolios 512 Pt. V Security Analysis 553 17 Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis 553 18 Equity Valuation Models 586 19 Financial Statement Analysis 631 Pt. VI Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives 671 20 Options Markets: Introduction 671 21 Option Valuation 715 22 Futures Markets 759 23 Futures, Swaps, and Risk Management 788 Pt. VII Applied Portfolio Management 823 24 Portfolio Performance Evaluation 823 25 International Diversification 867 26 Hedge Funds 902 27 The Theory of Active Portfolio Management 924 28 Investment Policy and the Framework of the CFA Institute 950 References to CFA Problems 989 Glossary Name Index Subject Index