Investments in its fourth edition provides a comprehensive and international analytical survey of the investments field, including portfolio theory and security analysis. It integrates treatment of financial derivatives, with chapters on futures, options, swaps, and financial engineering. This innovative learning package integrates a text, student resource manual, and three software programs. The software features: STUDY! - a fully referenced self-test; INVESTMASTER - an updated, ten-module program with graphing capabilities, and REALDATA - a collection of historical data series covering a wide range of investment topics.



In addition to the text, software and student resource manual, Investments has an instructor's package that includes answers and solutions to all end-of-chaper questions and problems, a printed multiple-choice test bank, a computerized version of the test bank, transparency masters of key tables, figures, and lecture outlines. Additions to the text include over 100 CFA examination questions (more than any other text).





REALDATA, containing almost 700 monthly and quarterly financial and economic time series data with exercises directly relevant to the course material. The data are contained in an easy-to-use spreadsheet format.

STUDY! includes a bank of multiple choice questions created specifically for Investments

INVESTMASTER contains ten modules that cover the gamut of the investments course, including: coupon bond analysis, the dividend valuation model, the Black Scholes option pricing model, portfolio diversification, regression analysis, and statistical analysis.