Investments

by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus

Recognized as the market leading text for investment courses, the Ninth Canadian Edition of Investments continues to present material in a framework that is organized by a central core of consistent fundamental principles. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to students and practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace.
The Ninth edition addresses many of the changes in the investment environment, including the unprecedented events surrounding the financial crisis., while continuing to be organized around one basic theme - that security markets are nearly efficient.

1008 pages, Paperback

Published March 21, 2019

About the author

Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals.

Bodie's books include Foundations of Pension Finance, Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System. His textbook, Investments, is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries. His textbook Financial Economics is coauthored by Robert C. Merton.

He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. He sits on the QFINANCE Advisory Board.[citation needed] In 2007 the Retirement Income Industry Association gave Bodie their Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research.

He holds a Ph.D in economics (1975) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.