Previously published under title: Finance in a nutshell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Risk and return -- Returns I: basic concepts -- Returns II: mean returns -- Risk I: total risk -- Risk and return I: portfolios -- Risk II: diversification -- Risk III: systematic risk -- Risk and return II: capm and the cost of capital -- Risk and return III: the three-factor model -- Risk IV: downside risk -- Risk and return IV: risk-adjusted returns -- Risk and return V: portfolio optimization -- Risk and return VI: the long term -- Valuation -- Stocks I: the dividend discount model -- Stocks II: the wacc model -- Stocks III: other dcf models -- Stocks IV: reverse valuation -- Stocks v: relative valuation -- Bonds I: prices and yields -- Bonds II: default risk and market risk -- Bonds III: duration and convexity -- Other important topic -- Npv and IRR -- Real options -- Corporate value creation -- Options -- Futures and forwards -- Currencies -- Statistical background -- Stats I: summary statistics -- Stats II: normality -- Stats III: non-normality -- Stats IV: regression analysis.