This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.
The statistical analysis framework of markets and institutions in the book meets the need for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in quantitative disciplines, who wish to apply their craft to the world of investments. In addition, entrepreneurs will find the volume to be especially useful. It also contains a clearly detailed explanation of many recent developments in portfolio and capital market theory as well as a thorough procedural discussion of security analysis. Professionals preparing for the CPA, CFA, and or CFP examinations will also benefit from a close scrutiny of the many problems following each chapter.
The level of difficulty progresses through the textbook with more advanced treatment appearing in the latter sections of each chapter, and the last chapters of the volume.
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Chapter 1: The Challenge: Can You Attain Wealth in Today's Investment Environment? (338 KB)
Chapter 2: Financial Mathematics (238 KB)
Chapter 3: The Securities Markets and Macroeconomics (492 KB)
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Contents:
- The Challenge: Can You Attain Wealth in Today's Investment Environment?
- Financial Mathematics
- The Securities Markets and Macroeconomics
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Forecasting Techniques
- Analysis and Fixed Income Securities
- Analysis of Common Stocks
- Futures and Options
- Risk, Uncertainty, Utility and Portfolio Theory
- Capital Market Theory, Efficiency, and Imperfections
Readership: Academics, students, entrepreneurs and business operators interested in investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio theory and selection, as well as professionals preparing for the CPA, CFA, and or CFP examinations.
Dr. Edward E. Williams is Professor Emeritus at Rice University where he taught for 36 years (1978–2014). He received his B.S.E. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968. Over the years, he has written 12 books and numerous articles and scholarly papers. He was one of the original critics of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) when it first appeared five decades ago. At Rice, he began its entrepreneurship program which is now rated as one of the top such endeavors in the world. During his teaching career, he received many awards for teaching excellence and was named by BusinessWeek as the second best entrepreneurship professor in the U.S. He has also been Professor of Statistics at Rice where he has published numerous works in financial economics and investments.
Dr. John A. Dobelman is Professor in the Practice in Statistics and Director of the Professional Master's Program at Rice University, Houston, Texas; he has taught at Rice since 2004. Prior to that he was a pricing scientist at PROS Holdings, Inc., and held various engineering and management positions in aviation facilities engineering and construction. His current research interests include investments analysis, stochastic modeling for markets and finance, simulation-based and quantitative portfolio selection and management, deception in patterns of noise, optimal display of quantitative information, improved communication, and applications of statistics to engineering models and vice versa. He has worked with Dr. Williams on numerous projects dating back several decades.