Visual Guide to Financial Markets
David Wilson’s Visual Guide to Financial Markets is an essential guide to knowing the fundamentals of investing. Packed with over 30 years of Bloomberg expertise, it contains a straightforward, easy-to-read approach that helps its readers have a comprehensive understanding of the three basic investment options. Offering valuable insights about real assets including gold and other commodities, money-market securities, bonds, stocks, derivatives, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, alternatives, and much more. An extensive guide that explains returns, risks, and relative value associated with each type of investment, this book gives the reader a clear picture of what underlies within the market structure, instruments, dynamics, and how to capitalize on these elements.
The Bloomberg Financial Series Visual Guides cover today's most relevant finance and trading topics in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow style.
Visual Guide to Financial Markets provides a highly visual presentation with an emphasis on graphics and professional applications, designed to help understand and make the most of opportunities in any Financial market.
This book explains bonds, stocks, derivatives, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and alternatives such as hedge funds.
It also explores the three Rs of returns, risks, and relative value that are associated with each type of investment.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Direct Investing
Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: Government
Chapter 3: Companies
Chapter 4: Hard Assets
Chapter 5: Indexes
Chapter 6: Government Revisited
Chapter 7: Companies Revisited
Chapter 8: Hard Assets Revisited
Part II: Indirect Investing
Chapter 9: Overview
Chapter 10: Derivatives
Chapter 11: Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds
Chapter 12: Indexes Revisited
Appendix: Bloomberg Functionality Cheat Sheet
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