JANETTE RUTTERFORD is Professor of Financial Management at The Open University Business School. She is the author of Introduction to Stock Exchange Investment, in its third edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and editor (with Anne Laurence and Josephine Maltby) of Women and their Money 1700 to 1950 (Routledge, 2009). She is currently researching the identity of small investors in the USA and the UK in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.MARCUS DAVISON is Associate Lecturer in Finance, Open University Business School.

• Part 1 Investment basicsProducts, markets and playersInvestment return and riskPart II Bonds and fixed incomeBonds and government securitiesBond strategiesPart III EquitiesEquities: analysis and valuationPortfolio theoryThe capital asset pricing modelPart IV Risk management productsFinancial futuresOptionsPart V Institutional and international investmentInvesting institutionsInternational investmentPart VI Strategies and issuesInvestment objectives, strategies and performanceCurrent issues in investment theory and practice.

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