Investors and Markets

Written by Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe, and based on his Princeton Lectures in Finance, Investors and Markets introduces a state-of-the-art approach to asset pricing that will help investment professionals make better portfolio choices. While the key to a successful portfolio used to lie in an elusive understanding of the determinants of asset prices, this book provides a clear and concise nonmathematical approach that's comprehensible to a broad range of professionals including advisors, money managers, and financial analysts. Any serious investment professional will benefit from Sharpe's unique insights. Book jacket.

William F. Sharpe, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in economics, is STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is the author or coauthor of six books, including Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets, Asset Allocation Tools, and Fundamentals of Investments