The Financial Times guide to understanding finance a no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques

Whether you are an executive or a student, beginner or expert, this book is designed to explain and illustrate the working essentials of finance with clarity and speed. This desktop companion deliberately combines essential theory with real-world application, using short, focused chapters to help y...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Estrada, Javier, 1964- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York State : Pearson/Prentice Hall [2011]
Edición:Second edition
Colección:Financial times guides.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Risk and return
  • Returns I: basic concepts
  • Returns II: mean returns
  • Risk I: total risk
  • Risk and return I: portfolios
  • Risk II: diversification
  • Risk III: systematic risk
  • Risk and return II: capm and the cost of capital
  • Risk and return III: the three-factor model
  • Risk IV: downside risk
  • Risk and return IV: risk-adjusted returns
  • Risk and return V: portfolio optimization
  • Risk and return VI: the long term
  • Valuation
  • Stocks I: the dividend discount model
  • Stocks II: the wacc model
  • Stocks III: other dcf models
  • Stocks IV: reverse valuation
  • Stocks v: relative valuation
  • Bonds I: prices and yields
  • Bonds II: default risk and market risk
  • Bonds III: duration and convexity
  • Other important topic
  • Npv and IRR
  • Real options
  • Corporate value creation
  • Options
  • Futures and forwards
  • Currencies
  • Statistical background
  • Stats I: summary statistics
  • Stats II: normality
  • Stats III: non-normality
  • Stats IV: regression analysis.