Whether you're making investments in your personal life or future career, Jone's Investments, Ninth Edition will guide you through this exciting and fast-paced field. You'll learn how to identify successful investment opportunities, anticipate and deal with investment problems and controversies, and ultimately, make wise investment decisions.

This bestseller teaches readers not only how to identify successful investment opportunities, but how to anticipate and deal with investment problems and controversies. Jones carefully and gradually develops key concepts, while covering all the necessary background material. Only essential formulas are included. It's one of the most readable, comprehensible investments texts available!



Table of contents

BACKGROUND.

Understanding Investments.

Investment Alternatives.

Investment Companies.

Securities Markets.

How Securities Are Traded.

IMPORTANT INVESTMENT CONCEPTS.

The Returns and Risks from Investing.

Expected Return and Risk.

FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES: ANALYSIS, VALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT.

Bond Yields and Prices.

Bonds: Analysis and Strategy.

COMMON STOCKS: ANALYSIS, VALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT.

Common Stock Valuation.

Common Stocks: Analysis and Strategy.

Market Efficiency.

SECURITY ANALYSIS.

Economy/Market Analysis

Industry Analysis.

Company Analysis.

Technical Analysis.

DERIVATIVE SECURITIES.

Options.

Futures.

MODERN INVESTMENT THEORY.

Portfolio Selection.

Capital Market Theory.

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT.

Portfolio Management.

Evaluation of Investment Performance.

Glossary.

Interest Tables.

Index.