• First exam
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • Chapter 2 - Security overview
  • Chapter 3 - Economy
  • Chapter 4 - Risk and return
• Second exam
  • Chapter 5 - Portfolio risk and return
  • Chapter 6 - Fundamental analysis
  • Chapter 7 - Stock valuation
  • Chapter 8 - Technical analysis
  • Chapter 9 - Market efficiency
• Third exam
  • Chapter 10 - Bond valuation
  • Chapter 11 - Investment companies
  • Chapter 12 - Primary and secondary markets

First exam

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Security overview

• http://www.investopedia.com/university/bonds/ - a review of bond basics
• http://www.investopedia.com/university/moneymarket/ - overview money market securities
• http://www.investopedia.com/articles/04/072804.asp - tax benefits of munis

Chapter 3 - Economy

• http://biz.yahoo.com/c/e.html - Yahoo Finance's event calendar

Chapter 4 - Risk and return

• http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/geometricmean.asp - arithmetic vs. geometric average returns
• http://www.investopedia.com/university/shortselling/ - what is short selling?
• http://www.investopedia.com/university/margin/ - trading on margin
• http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/shortmarginrequirements.asp - short sale margin requirements
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average - history of dow

Second exam

Chapter 5 - Portfolio risk and return

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/111502.asp - Different types of risk and how diversification works

http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/premba_test/c0332/s6/s6_5.html - correlation, two asset portfolios, and beta

http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/premba_test/c0332/s6/anim_s6_5.html - a short video explaining beta

http://viking.som.yale.edu/will/finman540/classnotes/class2.html - Some history and overview of modern portfolio theory overview

Chapter 6 - Fundamental analysis

http://www.investopedia.com/university/fundamentalanalysis/ - an 11-page overview of what fundamental analysis is all about

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/06/financialreporting.asp - an overview of using a company's financial statements

http://www.fool.com/School/BalanceSheet/BalanceSheet01.htm - reading the balance sheet

http://www.accountingcoach.com/online-accounting-course/11Xpg01.html - depreciation (don't worry about accounting journal entries near the bottom)

http://www.money-zine.com/Investing/Investing/Building-an-Income-Statement/

• a basic income statement

http://www.investopedia.com/university/ratios/ - calculating financial ratios

Chapter 7 - Stock valuation

http://www.investopedia.com/university/peratio/ - A good summary of the P/E ratio

http://www.fool.com/research/2000/features000406.htm - the DDM - constant growth (Gordon) and multi stage

Earnings valuation - This is the example that I did in class, valuing Caterpillar stock

Chapter 8 - Technical analysis

http://www.investopedia.com/university/movingaverage/default.asp -

moving averages

http://chestnutandcedar.localweb.com/Library/TechnicalAnalysis/LIBTAtypeofchart.htm

• chart types

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/061801.asp - support and resistance

Chapter 9 - Market efficiency

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/101502.asp - market efficiency

Third exam

Chapter 10 - Bond valuation

http://www.investopedia.com/university/advancedbond/ - bond pricing and

duration.  this reading does include a bit more details than we cover

http://www.regentschoolpress.com/BondDuration.pdf - calculating and using duration

Duration example from class

Chapter 11 - Investment companies

http://biz.yahoo.com/edu/ed_fund.html- a list of short articles about specific topics, from basic definitions to loads & ETFs

http://www.investopedia.com/university/mutualfunds/ - overview of mutual funds

http://www.sec.gov/answers/mffees.htm - mutual fund fees

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/082901.asp - ETFs

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/06/stylebox.asp - understanding Morningstar's "style" box and the strategy of a fund

Chapter 12 - Primary and secondary markets

http://www.investopedia.com/university/ipo/ - IPO process

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/101102.asp - primary, secondary, 3rd and 4th markets explained

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/03/032103.asp - different types of orders

http://www.nasdaq.com/about/gp2005_chapter_2.pdf - details on the IPO process