Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives (Wiley Finance) - Tapa dura

Acerca del autor

SUNIL PARAMESWARAN, PhD, is Director and CEO of Tarheel Consultancy Services, a corporate training and management consulting firm. His professional expertise includes securities markets, financial derivatives, fixed income securities, and international finance. He obtained his doctorate from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina, USA.

De la contraportada

A comprehensive introduction to the full range of financial products commonly used in the financial markets, the newly revised Second Edition of Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives delivers a crystal-clear and intuitive exploration of basic and complex instruments. Along with explanations of the instruments themselves, author Sunil K. Parameswaran describes the dynamics of the free market and discusses the environment in which financial instruments are traded.

The book offers supplementary and ancillary materials to enhance reader’s opportunities to apply the material presented within. Foundational treatments of macroeconomic and corporate finance concepts, like interest rates and the time value of money, are included as well. The book employs a straightforward approach and style but does not shy away from more complex topics when necessary for a full understanding of the subject.

Clear discussions of introductory topics are followed by explorations of more advanced subjects, like equity and preferred shares, bonds, money market instruments, foreign exchange products, derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and swaps.

The latest edition of this leading text includes entirely new chapters on interest rate derivatives and bonds with embedded options, financial macroeconomics, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, pension plans, orders, and exchanges. It also demonstrates useful Excel functions for finance practitioners and students.

An indispensable resource for finance professionals and students, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of business, Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives will also earn a place on the bookshelves of banking professionals and students of executive education programs.

De la solapa interior

A comprehensive introduction to the full range of financial products commonly used in the financial markets, the newly revised Second Edition of Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives delivers a crystal-clear and intuitive exploration of basic and complex instruments. Along with explanations of the instruments themselves, author Sunil K. Parameswaran describes the dynamics of the free market and discusses the environment in which financial instruments are traded.

The book offers supplementary and ancillary materials to enhance reader's opportunities to apply the material presented within. Foundational treatments of macroeconomic and corporate finance concepts, like interest rates and the time value of money, are included as well. The book employs a straightforward approach and style but does not shy away from more complex topics when necessary for a full understanding of the subject.

Clear discussions of introductory topics are followed by explorations of more advanced subjects, like equity and preferred shares, bonds, money market instruments, foreign exchange products, derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and swaps.

The latest edition of this leading text includes entirely new chapters on interest rate derivatives and bonds with embedded options, financial macroeconomics, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, pension plans, orders, and exchanges. It also demonstrates useful Excel functions for finance practitioners and students.

An indispensable resource for finance professionals and students, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of business, Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives will also earn a place on the bookshelves of banking professionals and students of executive education programs.