Investments 10th edition by Bodie Kane and Marcus课后答案 Essential nature of investment Reduced current consumption Planned later consumption Real Assets Assets used to produce goods and services Financial Assets Claims on real assets Real Assets Versus Financial Assets Table Balance Sheet of . Households, 2007 Table Worth A Taxonomy of Financial Assets Fixed e or debt Money market instruments Bank certificates of deposit Capital market instruments mon stock or equity Derivative securities Information Role The Google effect Consumption Timing Allocation of Risk Separation of Ownership and Management Agency Issues Financial Markets and the Economy Corporate Governance and Corporate Ethics Accounting Scandals Examples – Enron, Rite Aid, HealthSouth Auditors—watchdogs of the firms Analyst Scandals Arthur Andersen Sarbanes-Oxley Act Tighten the rules of corporate governance Financial Markets and the Economy Continued Asset allocation Choice among broad asset classes Security selection Choice of which securities to hold within asset class Security analysis The Investment Process Risk-Return Trade-Off Efficient Markets Active Management Finding mispriced securities Timing the market Passive Management No attempt to find undervalued securities No attempt to time the market Holding a highly diversified portfolio Markets petitive Business Firms– net borrowers Households – net savers Governments – can be both borrowers and savers Financial Intermediaries panies Banks panies Credit unions The Players