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Business Reference Guide

Investments & International Finance

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This volume begins with an essay by William Wardrope that details important concepts regarding investment valuationand analysis. The primary investment vehicles that valuation can help with are stocks, bonds and money markets,each of which have their own advantages and disadvantages. Wardrope provides information on different tools forevaluating these pros and cons before Simone I. Flynn focuses on investment management and its history. Some ofthe prominent management strategies include active investment and passive investment. Flynn also analyzes pensionfunds, assets, government regulation and investment portfolios. Marie Gould expands on Flynn's ideas by exploringmodern portfolio theory and post modern portfolio theory. According to Gould, modern portfolio theory asserts thatinvestors seek to mitigate risk by diversifying their portfolio while "post modern portfolio theory guides the pathtoward an enriched science of investment that assimilates... behavioral finance with other forms of novelty that resultsin more positive outcomes." An investment vehicle opportunity investors often utilize in reducing risk is fixed incomesecurities.
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