Finance investment essentials of investments 5th ed z bodie, a kane a j marcus (mcgraw hill) 2003

... underlying stock at a fixed price Hence one of the determinants of the value of the call option will be the value of the underlying stock price Financial Markets and the Economy PPT 1-9 through PPT 1-17 ... benefits Advantages include professional administration of the account, record keeping to keep track of all of your investments in one location and keeping track of all...

... an investment portfolio across broad asset classes security selection Choice of specific securities within each asset class An investor s portfolio is simply his collection of investment assets ... Bodie−Kane−Marcus: Essentials of Investments, Fifth Edition I Elements of Investments Investments: Background and Issues © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 19 Investments: Backgroun...

... companies pool the assets of individual investors, they also need to divide claims to those assets among those investors Investors buy shares in investment companies, and ownership is proportional ... investors: investment companies Financial intermediaries that invest the funds of individual investors in securities or other assets Record keeping and administration Investment companie...

... box discusses some of this evidence Costs and Benefits of Passive Investing How reasonable is it for an investor to pursue a passive strategy? We cannot answer such a question definitively without ... comprehensive analysis of the relative success of passive strategies in Chapter To summarize, a passive strategy involves investment in two passive portfolios: virtually risk-free sh...

... auto producers can put pressure on suppliers of auto parts This reduces the profitability of the auto parts industry Bargaining power of suppliers If a supplier of a key input has monopolistic ... variable as opposed to fixed costs will be less sensitive to business conditions This is because, in economic downturns, these firms can reduce costs as output falls in response to falli...

... provide profits when stock prices increase Purchasing puts, in contrast, is a bearish strategy Symmetrically, writing calls is bearish, while writing puts is bullish Because option values depend ... 14 .7 Payoff Value of a protective put position at expiration A: Stock ST X Payoff B: Put X ST X Payoff and profit Payoff C: Protective put Profit X X X – (S0 + P) ST Bodie−Kane−Marcus: Ess...