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Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures

ISBN: 9780735201750 | 0735201757
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Pub. Date: 1/1/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
(New York Institute of Finance) A text for individual investors as well as financial professionals, comparing methods of analyzing stocks and giving readers the tools to create a portfolio that balances risk and returns. Includes charts and graphics as well as Internet listings for tools and additional research. Softcover. DLC: Investments: United States.
Prefacexiii
Acknowledgmentsxix
The Securities Industry
1(14)
Investment Banking Department
... MORE(2)
Venture Capital/Private Equity
3(1)
Sales Divisions
4(3)
Trading Department
7(1)
Research Department
8(1)
Technology Department
9(1)
Operations Department
10(1)
Money Management Department
11(1)
Wealth Preservation/Insurance Division
11(1)
Retirement Planning Department
11(1)
Trust Company/Bank
11(1)
Derivatives Department
12(1)
Compliance Department
13(1)
Recent Industry Performance
13(2)
Common Stock
15(18)
How Much of the Company Do I Own?
16(3)
Corporate Governance and Organization
19(1)
Advantages of Common Stock as an Investment
20(2)
Disadvantages of Common Stock as an Investment
22(1)
Types of Common Stocks
23(3)
Dividend Debate
26(2)
Stock Splits
28(1)
Price Quotes
28(1)
Types of Orders
29(1)
Margin
30(1)
Shorting Stock
31(2)
Analyzing Stocks
33(29)
The Fundamentalist School
33(13)
Ratio Analysis
46(3)
Trend Analysis
49(6)
The Technical School
55(3)
Analysis of Bar Charts
58(2)
The Academic School
60(2)
Underwriting Stocks
62(9)
Why Companies Go Public
62(1)
Selecting Investment Banking Firms
63(8)
Preferred Stocks
71(7)
Why Do Companies Issue Preferreds?
73(1)
Why Do Investors Buy Preferreds?
74(1)
What Are the Common Embedded Options?
75(3)
Trading Securities
78(23)
How a Trade Is Executed
78(3)
Broker/Dealers
81(1)
Market Making
82(3)
Posting Quotes
85(2)
Types of Quotations
87(2)
Third Market Transactions
89(1)
Fourth Market Transactions
89(2)
The National Association of Security Dealers (NASD)
91(3)
NASD Rules of Fair Practice
94(2)
NASD Uniform Practice Code
96(5)
Operations
101(23)
Operations Departments
103(20)
In Closing
123(1)
The Money Market
124(7)
Insured Certificates of Deposit
125(1)
Negotiable Certificates of Deposit
125(1)
Bankers Acceptances
125(1)
Commercial Paper
126(1)
Repurchase Aggreements
127(1)
Floating Rate Notes
128(1)
Adjustable Rate Preferreds
129(1)
Money Market Preferreds
130(1)
Introduction to Fixed Income
131(10)
Buying Bonds
132(1)
Quoting Bond Yield
133(1)
Accrued Interest
134(1)
Embedded Options
135(5)
In Closing
140(1)
U.S. Treasury Bonds
141(14)
Advantages of U.S. Treasury Securities
141(3)
Types of U.S. Treasuries
144(6)
Treasury Yield Curve
150(1)
Investment Strategies
150(5)
Corporate Bonds
155(12)
Why Companies Issue Bonds
155(2)
Corporate Bonds and Credit Ratings
157(3)
Types of Corporate Bonds
160(1)
Expressing the Yield of Corporates
161(2)
Components of Spread
163(1)
Option Adjusted Spread
164(3)
Municipal Bonds
167(5)
Tax Treatment of Municipals
167(2)
General Obligation Versus Revenue Bonds
169(2)
Underwriting Municipal Bonds
171(1)
Mortgage-Backed Securities
172(22)
Problems Associated With Selling Individual Mortgages
173(3)
Role of the Mortgage Agencies
176(1)
Creation of a Pool of Mortgages
176(3)
Analyzing Pools
179(2)
Quoting Prepayment Speed
181(1)
Whole Loan Pools
182(1)
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
182(2)
Sequentials
184(3)
PACs and Companions
187(3)
Floaters and Inverse Floaters
190(1)
Strip Securities
191(1)
New Developments
192(2)
Forward Contracts
194(15)
Terms of a Forward Contract
195(2)
Pricing Forward Contracts
197(2)
Advantages of Forward Contracts
199(1)
Interest Rate Forwards
199(5)
Foreign Exchange Forwards
204(4)
Summary of Forward Contracts
208(1)
Futures Contracts
209(23)
Margin Requirements
212(5)
The T-Bond Futures Contract
217(3)
Eurodollar Futures
220(3)
Applications of These Contracts
223(4)
Hedgers
227(1)
Structure and Operation of a Futures Exchange
228(4)
Swap Contracts
232(15)
Applications of Swaps
234(4)
Asset Swaps
238(3)
Index Swaps
241(2)
Role of the Dealer
243(1)
Quoting Swaps
244(1)
Credit Risk of Interest Rate Swaps
244(3)
Option Contracts
247(15)
In, At, and Out of the Money Options
249(1)
Option Premium
249(1)
Option Markets
250(1)
Over-the-Counter Options
251(3)
Option Pricing
254(5)
Option Sensitivities
259(3)
Exotic Options
262(15)
Look-back Options
262(2)
Binaries (AKA Digitals)
264(2)
Bermuda Options
266(1)
Barrier Options
266(3)
Restrikes
269(1)
Asian Options
270(2)
Compound Options
272(1)
Perpetual Zero Options
273(1)
Delay Options
273(1)
Chooser Options
274(1)
Contingent Premium Option
274(3)
Equity-Related Investments
277(8)
Index Securities
277(1)
Warrants
277(1)
Long Dated Equity Participation Securities
278(1)
Convertible Securities
278(1)
Convertible Vocabulary and Ratios
279(1)
Conversion Premium
279(2)
Why Invest in Converts?
281(1)
Disadvantage of Convertible Securities
282(2)
Why Do Issuers Issue Convertibles
284(1)
Mutual Funds
285(14)
Diversification
285(1)
Stacking the Deck
286(1)
Investment Monitoring
286(1)
Why Mutual Funds?
286(1)
What Is a Mutual Fund?
287(2)
Advantages of Mutual Funds
289(2)
Disadvantages of Mutual Funds
291(4)
Other Issues Mutual Fund Investors Need to Consider
295(4)
Global Investing
299(24)
Faster Rate of Economic Growth
300(1)
Less Government Regulation
301(1)
Lower Labor Costs
301(1)
Better Educated Work Force
302(1)
Favorable Political Environment
302(1)
Disadvantages of Overseas Markets
302(2)
The Influence of Globalization on U.S. Companies
304(4)
Factors that Cause FX Rates to Change
308(5)
U.S. Investors and Non-dollar Investments
313(4)
Influence of the Euro
317(1)
Alternative Ways of Investing in Non-dollar Equities
318(1)
Equity-linked Notes
319(1)
World Equity Benchmark Securities
320(1)
Mutual Funds
321(1)
Investing in Non-dollar Fixed Income
322(1)
About the Author323(2)
Index325


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