Interpreting the National Electrical Code or Investments

Interpreting the National Electrical Code

Author: Truman Surbrook

Extraordinarily comprehensive, this book is completely updated to the 2008 National Electrical Code and continues to offer valuable insight into the Code articles. Explanations are provided for each article in detail, with thorough discussions and practical examples that clearly illustrate how the Code and its most recent changes are applied. Discussions are logically organized into coherent subject groupings, allowing readers to navigate easily through 2008 NEC requirements as well as changes since the last edition. Through this approach, the book also integrates essential information into the 8th Edition that is not directly addressed in the NEC but is extremely useful to electricians.

Book review: Summer Pudding Club Book or Heavenly Chocolate

Investments

Author: Haim Levy

The chapters are very well written, and present even relatively difficult material in a concise and very clear way.

Thore Johnson, Norwegian

Schoolof Economics and Business Administration

 

To some people, security markets are like casinos in which investing is based on predicting security prices and speculating that those predictions will come true.  Investments is here to tell you otherwise. 

You could try to predict security prices by flipping a coin or reading a horoscope, but if you really want to become a better investor then you need a thorough understanding of securities, securities markets and investment strategies.  That is exactly what this book provides.

This topical introduction to investment in security markets discusses in detail the various ways in which you can minimise risk and maximise yields.  One of the basic insights that you will obtain from reading this book is that good investments generally do not require forecasting skills. Rather, in many cases, good investments require the matching of the investments with the objectives and constraints of the investor.

Key Features:

 
• Up-to-date coverage of investment practice and academic research
• Extensive coverage of e-commerce in investments
• Many real-life case studies taken from recent newspaper articles, in particular the Financial Times
• Extensive Review Questions and Answers, with additional questions and answers available online

Investments is suitable for use by intermediate to advanced undergraduate students taking courses in investments as part of accounting, finance, economics andbusiness studies degrees.  It is also suitable for postgraduate students on MBA and other programmes covering investments.

 

Professor Haim Levy, MA, PhD, is Myles Robinson Professor of Business Administration at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in The Jerusalem School of Business Administration.

Professor Thierry Post is an Associate Professor of Finance at Erasmus University, the Netherlands.

The book is well-presented and substantial, the terms are clearly explained, there are plenty of examples, and concepts are introduced gradually and thoroughly.

James Clunie, The Universityof Edinburgh

 

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Bonds, stocks and other securities	19
3	Security markets	53
4	Institutional investors	94
5	Security regulation and investment ethics	121
6	Rates of return	159
7	Fundamentals of portfolio analysis	203
8	Mean-variance analysis	234
9	Portfolio diversification	259
10	The capital asset-pricing model	289
11	The arbitrage pricing theory	340
12	Efficient markets : theory and evidence	374
13	Interest rates and bond valuation	413
14	Bonds : analysis and management	455
15	Stocks : valuation and selection	491
16	Financial statement analysis	536
17	Macroeconomic analysis	566
18	Technical analysis	594
19	Futures, options and other derivatives	623
20	Derivatives valuation	678
21	Risk management	727
22	Performance evaluation	761
App. A	Introduction to regression analysis	801
App. B	Excel spreadsheet applications	822