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The Financial Times guide to understanding finance : a no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques / Javier Estrada.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xix, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780273738022
Other title:
  • Guide to understanding finance
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.15 EST [ Shelf no. 45 ]
Contents:
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.
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Previously published under title: Finance in a nutshell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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