This book is suitable for readers, even without background knowledge about basic financial concepts centered on the financial capital markets. It also banks on institutional details of the finance, going beyond the conceptual issues. Moreover, this book also features different tools, including Bloomberg and accounting annexures, macroeconomics, and statistics.
Description
Capital Markets and Investments presents a concise and easy-to-digest approach of explaining ideas and concepts about asset classes as well as equity markets and portfolio theory. It also reconciles the theoretical construct and practical insights.
About the Author
Dr. Siddharta Ghosh Dasitar is teaching at Columbia University, teaching courses in capital markets and investments. A Ph.D. degree holder in Finance & Economics from Columbia Business School in New York, Siddhartha has twenty years of experience in the financial services industry.
Table of Contents
The book is comprised of the following contents:
- The Financial System – Introduction
Key Players on the Financial System
Specialization within the financial system
Principles of pricing financial instruments
- Major Asset Classes and Markets
Major Types of Instruments
Major Asset Classes
Connections between different markets
- The Anatomy of the Sell Side
Structure of a Bulge Bracket Sell-side Firm
Basic Market Microstructure
- Overview of Buy Side Firms
Investment Styles
Investment Product offerings
Capital Owners
Working at a buy-side firm
- Indices, Benchmarking, Risk Models and Performance Evaluation
Benchmark Indices vs. Strategy Indices
Index Mechanics and Terminology
Measuring Risk – Risk Models
Performance Evaluation
- Factors Affecting Treasury Bond Prices
Reviewing Bond Price-Yield Relationship
Choosing Between Bonds
Quantifying Interest Rate Risk in Treasuries
Hedging Interest Rate Risk
