A comprehensive, current survey of investment products and instruments
Thorough, accessible, and up to date, Financial Instruments is a guide to all of the financial products currently being traded in the world’s markets. Through plain language and in a user-friendly format, David M. Weiss, author of After the Trade Is Made, outlines the many tools available and their unique functions, features, and structures.
Weiss breaks financial instruments into four broad groups: equities, debt, derivatives, and mutual funds. Under each heading, he explores the many types of related products, including exotic investments such as:
? American Depositary Receipts
? Asset-Backed Securities
? Structured Debt
? Futures
? Swaps
? Unit Investment Trusts
Financial Instruments is an indispensable tool for finance professionals-portfolio managers, brokers, financial planners, and institutional investors. It’s also a definitive resource for sophisticated individual investors.
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Great book I work as an investment accountant and I purchased this book to have on hand as a reference. I love having this book as it explains concepts very well and provides great examples on investment topics.
For its purpose, it is the best Having read elsewhere everything that this book covers, I still decide to buy it, partially because I have read and still own the author’s other benchmark book “After a trade is made”. That is a book as dry as it comes, yet I loved it. The author is very knowledgeable but his writing is never verbose. Points need to be made are made at the right time and in the right place.Be aware that this book is not intended to provide depth. Financial engineering could be very complex and lot…