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FT Guide to Understanding Finance: A no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques

FT Guide to Understanding Finance: A no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques

by Javier Estrada
FT Guide to Understanding Finance: A no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques

FT Guide to Understanding Finance: A no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques

by Javier Estrada

Overview

Whether you are an executive or a student, beginner or expert, this book is designed to explain and illustrate the working essentials of finance with clarity and speed.

This desktop companion deliberately combines essential theory with real-world application, using short, focused chapters to help you find what you need and implement it right away. www.pearsoned.co.uk/estrada

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780273738022
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 05/12/2011
Series: The FT Guides
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Javier Estrada holds an M.S. in Finance and a Ph.D. in Economics both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently an associate professor at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; the co-editor of the Emerging Markets Review; and a wealth management advisor at Sports Global Consulting. He has published extensively in international journals, written many cases for class discussion, and lectured throughout the world.

Table of Contents

Publisher's acknowledgments

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

PART I: RISK AND RETURN

1 Returns (I): Basic concepts

2 Returns (II): Mean returns

3 Risk (I): Total risk

4 Risk and return (I): Portfolios

5 Risk (II): Diversification &

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