Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780071273466
ISBN: 0071273468
Label: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Publication Date: January 01, 2008
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Sales Rank: 46467
Studio: McGraw Hill Higher Education

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The market leading "Essentials of Investments, 7e" by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. Essentials maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).




Rating: - Defect
The book was torn in many places and has many missing pages. It was impossible to make use of the book. I will have to say that it was deceptive to sell such a book.

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Rating: - Very hard to read
This book is widely used in finance courses in my university, a puzzling fact because books should rarely sell if they're hard to read. The bookfs authors introduce a broad array of investment theories and discoveries. Thatfs a plus. But their wordy sentences, which grow wordier and harder to follow as they delve into each chapterfs key concepts, offset the plus. The authorsf inconsistent use of terminology is another drawback. As I move on to later chapters, I feel as if the authors were ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent intro to Investment theory
I studied the entire book for my Investment Management course at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and found it very complete from the point of view of the "novice" investor and/or student. The book is not written for the intermediate or expert investor, but for an introductory course in Investment management it did the trick.

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Rating: - Essentials of Investments
This is a clearly written book with excellent visual aids. I especially liked the concept checks and the current events boxes. The sample questions from CFA exams were particularly helpful. On whole the book does an exceptional job of explaining difficult subject matter. I'd even recommend this book to the 'lay' reader.

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Rating: - Great for starters. Interesting news captions.
This book is great for blooming finance professionals and MBA students. Not too advanced and is aimed at simplifying thoughts and Wall Street practice for the average man. News captions are interesting but not exactly superb.

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