This pack contains 1 copy of Fundamentals of Investing, Global Edition and 1 printed access card to MyLab Finance with eText
Fundamentals of Investing uses practical, hands-on applications and examples to introduce the topics and techniques used by both personal investors and money managers. The text focuses on both individual securities and portfolios, teaching students to consider the risk and return of different types of investments and how to use this knowledge to achieve financial goals. A consistent framework centred around learning objectives keeps readers focused in each chapter while a conversational tone makes the language, concepts, and strategies accessible to students. With new topics and features added to the 14th Edition, Global Edition, the text remains up-to-date and relevant, so students leave the course equipped to develop, implement, and monitor a successful investment program.
Pearson MyLab is the world's leading online self-study, homework, tutorial and assessment product designed with a single purpose in mind: to improve the results of all higher education students, one student at a time.
To access the MyLab you need a Course ID from your instructor.
Key features
- A Learning Goal System frames each chapter, providing students with an accessible layout and a clear roadmap through a tightly woven structure that links headers, end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, problems, and cases.
- A flexible chapter structure allows professors to easily integrate the text into their syllabi. Sections cover the investment environment, conceptual tools, popular investment vehicles, and more.
- A clear focus on the individual investor gives students the basic tools and techniques they need to develop, implement, and monitor a successful investment program.
- Coverage of timely topics take changes in the investment environment into account, such as recent financial crises and scandals that remind students that investing is just as much about risk as it is about returns.
New to this edition
- End-of-chapter problems give students experience in integrating, investigating, and analysing key concepts presented in the chapter. Most have been revised to stay relevant to today's students.
- End-of-section Concepts in Review questions allow students to test their understanding before they move on to the next section.
- CFA Questions and Problem Sets offer additional homework and learning opportunities for students.
- Excel@Investing provides students with online access to electronic copies of most Excel tables in the text that involve calculations.
- These allow students to better understand the calculations and see how changing key assumptions affect results.
- QR codes give students access to videos and other web content that elevates the topical coverage of each chapter.
- Investor Mistakes and New Watch Your Behaviour boxes highlight investment lessons gleaned from behavioral finance professionals.
- Investor Facts keep students abreast of interesting statistics and unusual investment experiences.
- Famous Failures in Finance highlight lessons from the financial crisis, as well as 'problem areas' in the investment world such as market crashes, ethical scandals, and the failure to act in the client's best interest.
- The use of real data has been expanded and updated in examples, tables, figures, and end-of-chapter problems, so students can make a real-world connection to the information.
About the Authors
Scott B. Smart is a finance professor and the Fettig/Whirlpool Finance Faculty Fellow at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Dr. Smart received his BBA from Baylor University and his MA and PhD from Stanford University. His research focuses primarily on applied corporate finance topics and has been published in journals such as the
Journal of Finance, the
Journal of Financial Economics, the
Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, and others. His articles have been cited by business publications including
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and
Business Week.
Chad J. Zutter is a finance professor and the James Allen Faculty Fellow at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Zutter received his BBA from the University of Texas at Arlington and his PhD from Indiana University. His research has a practical, applied focus and has been the subject of feature stories in, among other prominent outlets,
The Economist and
CFO Magazine. 
