International Financial Market Investment

Explains the basics of pricing along with risk analysis for bonds, shares and exchange rates, illustrating the use of these fundamentals for portfolio management. Bonds.

Equities.

Exchange Rate Theory.

The Theory of Efficient Markets.

The Fundamentals of Modern Portfolio Theory.

The Process of Investment Policy Decision Making: Attempting a Synthesis.

Concluding Remarks. About the authors-- Erwin W. Heri joined Swiss Bank Corporation in 1987 as Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist. Before joining the bank he held a position as Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics at the University of Basel and spent some 15 months as research scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Stanford University. In 1989 he became Head of SBC's Financial Analysis and Investment Advisory Division and since January 1991 he has been responsible for SBC's Global Investment Consulting, Portfolio Management and Investment Funds Management. In 1993 he also took over responsibility for SBC's International Private and Trust Banking Business. He is based in Basel where he still lectures in Statistics and Financial Theory at the University.
Vanessa Rossi has an MA in Economics from Warwick University in England, and was for three years a postgraduate student, research and teaching assistant at Princeton University, USA. She joined Swiss Bank Corporation in 1987 as Chief European Economist and Strategist and became a Director of Swiss Bank Equities Group responsible for equity research, before leaving the company at the end of 1992 to become a freelance writer and consultant. International Financial Market Investment A Swiss Banker's Guide If you are an investor or corporate finance officer hoping to succeed in the booming and ever-evolving financial markets International Financial Market Investment is the primer you are looking for. Written by two highly-experienced practitioners this book explains the fundamentals of pricing as well as risk analysis for bonds, shares and exchange rates, and illustrates the use of these basics for portfolio management-making use of simple practical examples to clarify issues. International Financial Market Investment A Swiss Banker's Guide Erwin W. Heri and Vanessa Rossi During recent years, the number of individual investors in financial markets who are interested in the whole range of securities available (shares, bonds, warrants and other instruments) has increased dramatically. Most significantly, investors are showing increasing sophistication in investment risk analysis and are demanding more advanced trading techniques for their portfolios. Books designed to familiarise this growing audience with the techniques of investment analysis are rare. This book aims to bridge the gap between specialist literature written for the experienced practitioner and the theoretical, non-practical, academic textbooks. It will, therefore, appeal to private investors, fund managers, corporate finance directors and MBA-level students looking for an introduction to the analysis of financial markets and the use of techniques in portfolio management.