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Fundamentals of Investments was written to: 1. Focus on students as investment managers, giving them information they can act on instead of concentrating on theories and research without the proper context. 2. Offer strong, consistent pedagogy, including a balanced, unified treatment of the main types of financial investments as mirrored in the investment world. 3. Organize topics in a way that makes them easy to apply--whether to a portfolio simulation or to real life--and support these topics with hands-on activities. . . The approach of this text reflects two central ideas. First, there is a consistent focus on the student as an individual investor or investments manager. Second, a consistent, unified treatment of the four basic types of financial instruments--stocks, bonds, options, and futures--focusing on their characteristics and features, their risks and returns, and the markets in which they trade..
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Clearly written but full of arithmetic mistakes

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I chose this book for my investments class because it is an easy read for my international students, but I quickly found out that the text and the problem solutions are full of careless arithmetic errors. I strongly advise any professor not to use the problem solutions provided in the instructor's manual. About 20% of them contain stupid mistakes. Also, don't plan on using the PowerPoints in the instructor's manual. The chatty writing style that works so well in the text has been cut and pasted into the PowerPoints (in some cases literally) creating a dense and over wordy presentation. Finally the authors place a high priority on giving students an early start to simulated securities trading. This is very laudable but it means they provide information on reading quotes for securities well before they explain the nature of those securities. This might work for a well known security like a common stock, but it's quite meaningless to explain quotations for options when students don't have a clue about what they are buying or selling. I'm still using this book, but continue to be frustrated by its limitations.

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The book is written in a simple language. The author presented many real world examples. It is an excellent text-book!
Product Details Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780073314976
ISBN: 0073314978
Label: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 708
Publication Date: 2006-09-27
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Studio: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

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