July 2012
Beginner
597 pages
17h 15m
English
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Investment Philosophies: Successful Strategies and the Investors Who Made Them Work, 2nd Edition
by Aswath Damodaran
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Annuities
Anomalies in price data
Arbitrage
convertible/capital structure
defined
exercise
feasibility of
fixed-income
futures
hedge funds
lessons for investors
Long Term Capital Management (LTCM)
mergers
near, (see also Near arbitrage)
options, (see also Options arbitrage)
paired
pure, (see also Pure arbitrage)
speculative, (see also Speculative arbitrage)
tax
Arbitrage pricing model (APM)
Arbitrage principle
Asset allocation
and market timing
passive approach
Asset allocation decision
Asset measurement and valuation
accounting view of
current assets
fixed assets
intangible assets
investments and marketable securities
measuring
underlying principles of
Asset redeployment/restructuring
Asset selection decision
Assets:
current
defining
value-destroying actions
value-enhancing actions
Babson chart
Bad debts
Balance sheet
Behavioral finance
break-even effect
evidence of irrational behavior
framing
herd behavior
house money effect
loss aversion
need for anchors
overconfidence and intuitive thinking
power of a strong story
research studies on
risk and return models (see also Risk and return models)
testing market efficiency
unwillingness to admit mistakes
Below par trading
Benchmarks:
arbitrage pricing model
Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
comparison to indexes
excess return (Alpha or Jensen’s alpha)
indexes as
information ratio
Jensen’s Alpha
mean-variance measures
M-squared
multifactor models
proxy and composite models
risk and return models
Sharpe ratio
Treynor Index
Berkshire ...
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