Chapter 3: Overview of Security Types New Material: NASD’s new TRACE system and transparency corporate bond market. Derivative securities. New Material: Obtaining futures contract and option contract price quotes using the Internet.
Chapter 6 Common Stock Valuation New Section: Residual income model (RIM). New Material: Updated McGraw-Hill valuation detailed example.
Chapter 7 Stock Price Behavior and Market Efficiency New Material: Event studies using actual events surrounding Elan Corporation. New Material: Informed traders, insider trading, and illegal insider trading. Expanded Material: Market efficiency and the performance of professional money managers. Expanded Material: Anomalies. New Material: Bubbles and crashes.
Chapter 8 New Chapter Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing New Material: Introduction to behavioral finance. New Material: Prospect theory. New Material: Overconfidence, misperceiving randomness, and overreacting to chance events. New Material: Sentiment-based risk and limits to arbitrage. Expanded Material: Technical analysis.
Chapter 9 Interest Rates Interest rate history. New Example: A quick review of the time value of money. Money market rates and their prices.
Chapter 10 Bond Prices and Yields Duration. New Material: Bond risk measures based on duration.
Chapter 11 Diversification and Risky Asset Allocation The Markowitz efficient frontier. New Material: Illustrating the importance of asset allocation using three securities.
Chapter 12 Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line New Material : Extending CAPM.
Chapter 13 Performance Evaluation and Risk Management Enhanced Example: VaR for a Sharpe optimal portfolio.
Chapter 14 Futures Contracts Stock index futures. New Example: Changing the beta of a stock portfolio using stock index futures.
Chapter 15 Stock Options Option basics and option quotes. New Material: Stock option ticker symbols. Option payoffs and profits. New Material: Option “moneyness.”
Chapter 16 Option Valuation The Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. New Material: Using an online option calculator. Measuring the impact of changes in option inputs. New Section: Hedging stock with stock options.
Chapter 17 Projecting Cash Flow and Earnings Financial statement forecasting. New Material: Percentage of sales approach. New Material: A detailed case study valuing Starbucks Corporation.
Chapter 18 Corporate Bonds Bond Indentures and callable bonds. New Material: Make-whole call provisions. Corporate bond credit ratings. Enhanced Material: Bond yield spreads.
Chapter 19 Government Bonds Government bonds basics, emphasizing U.S. government debt. Enhanced Material: U.S. Savings Bond. Municipal bonds and their credit ratings. Updated Material: The size of bid-ask spreads in municipal bond markets.
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