LEADER 05621nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910972339503321 005 20251116164058.0 010 $a1-119-19962-X 010 $a0-470-82911-7 010 $a1-283-29451-6 010 $a9786613294517 010 $a0-470-82910-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056414 035 $a(EBL)693331 035 $a(OCoLC)775410370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000635654 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12266134 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000635654 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10652575 035 $a(PQKB)11416852 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC693331 035 $a(CaSebORM)9780470829097 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL693331 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10504236 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329451 035 $a(OCoLC)760179380 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7147390 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7147390 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056414 100 $a20111123d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFundamentals of financial instruments $ean introduction to stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, and derivatives /$fSunil Parameswaran 205 $a1st edition 210 $aSingapore $cJohn Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (578 p.) 225 1 $aWiley finance 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-470-82490-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Financial Institutions, Instruments, and Markets; The Role of an Economic System; A Command Economy; A Market Economy; Classification of Economic Units; An Economy's Relationship with the External World; The Balance of Trade; The Current Account Balance; Financial Assets; Primary Markets and Secondary Markets; Exchanges and OTC Markets; Brokers and Dealers; The Need for Brokers and Dealers; Trading Positions 327 $aThe Buy Side and the Sell Side Investment Bankers; Direct and Indirect Markets; Mutual Funds; Money and Capital Markets; The Euro currency Market; The International Bond Market; Globalization of Equity Markets; Dual Listing; Fungibility; Risk; After the Trade: Clearing and Settlement; Dematerialization and the Role of a Depository; Custodial Services; Globalization: The New Mantra; Chapter 2: Mathematics of Finance; Interest Rates; The Real Rate of Interest; The Fisher Equation; Simple Interest; Compound Interest; Properties; A Symbolic Derivation; Principle of Equivalency 327 $aContinuous Compounding Future Value; Present Value; Handling a Series of Cash Flows; The Internal Rate of Return; Evaluating an Investment; Annuities: An Introduction; Perpetuities; The Amortization Method; Amortization with a Balloon Payment; The Equal Principal Repayment Approach; Types of Interest Computation; Loans with a Compensating Balance; Chapter 3: Equity Shares, Preferred Shares, and Stock Market Indexes; Introduction; Par Value versus Book Value; Voting Rights; Statutory versus Cumulative Voting; Proxies; Dividends; Dividend Yield; Dividend Reinvestment Plans; Stock Dividends 327 $aTreasury Stock Splits and Reverse Splits; Costs Associated with Splits and Stock Dividends; Preemptive Rights; Interpreting Stated Ratios; Handling Fractions; Physical Certificates versus Book Entry; Tracking Stock; Report Cards; Types of Stocks; Risk and Return and the Concept of Diversification; Preferred Shares; Callable Preferred Stock; Convertible Preferred Shares; Cumulative Preferred Shares; Adjustable Rate Preferred Shares; Participating Preferred Shares; Dividend Discount Models; A General Valuation Model; The Constant Growth Model; The Two-Stage Model; The Three-Stage Model 327 $aThe H Model Stock Market Indexes; Price-Weighted Indexes; Changing the Divisor; The Importance of Price; Value-Weighted Indexes; Changing the Base-Period Capitalization; Equally Weighted Indexes; Tracking Portfolios; The Free-Floating Methodology; Well-Known Global Indexes; Margin Trading and Short Selling; Terminology; Maintenance Margin; Regulation T and NYSE and NASD Rules; Short Selling; Chapter 4: Bonds; Valuation of a Bond; Par, Premium, and Discount Bonds; Evolution of the Price; Zero-Coupon Bonds; Valuing a Bond in between Coupon Dates; Day-Count Conventions; Actual-Actual 327 $aThe Treasury's Approach 330 $aThe essential guide to financial instruments, logically presented Fundamentals of Financial Instruments deals with the global financial markets and the instruments in which they trade. 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