Essentials of Investments (9th Global Edition) – eBook

Author(s)

Alan J. Marcus

Professor Alan J. Marcus is a Professor of Finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College (USA). His main research interests are in derivatives and securities markets. He is co-author (with Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane) of the textbooks Investments 11th edition and Essentials of Investments. Professor Alan has served as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also spent 2 years at Freddie Mac, where Alan helped to develop mortgage pricing and credit risk models. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.

Alex Kane

Dr. Alex Kane is a Professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has been visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business, Harvard; Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dr. Kane is the author of many articles in finance and management journals. His is mainly in portfolio management, corporate finance, and capital markets, most recently in the measurement of market volatility and pricing of options.

Zvi Bodie

Dr. Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University (USA). He has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals. Zvi's books include Foundations of Pension Finance, Pensions in the U.S. Economy, Issues in Pension Economics, and Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System. His textbook, Investments 11e, is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries.

He has served on the finance faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. In 2007 the Retirement Income Industry Association gave Bodie their Lifetime Achievement Award for applied research.

He holds a B.A. with Honors in Philosophy (1965) from Brooklyn College, an M.A. in Economics (1970) from the Hebrew University, and a Ph.D in economics (1975) from the MIT.