Part One Background
Chapter 1 Investing is an Important Activity Worldwide
Chapter 2 Investment Alternatives: Generic Principles All Investors Must Know
Chapter 3 Indirect Investing: A Global Activity
Chapter 4 Securities Markets Matter to All Investors
Chapter 5 All Financial Markets Have Regulations and Trading Practices
Part Two Portfolio and Capital Market Theory
Chapter 6 Return and Risk: The Foundation of Investing Worldwide
Chapter 7 Portfolio Theory is Universal
Chapter 8 Portfolio Selection for All Investors
Chapter 9 Asset Pricing Principles
Part Three Common Stocks: Analysis, Valuation and Management
Chapter 10 Common Stock Valuation Lessons for All Investors
Chapter 11 Managing a Stock Portfolio: A Worldwide Issue
Chapter 12 What Happens If Markets Are Efficient or Not?
Part Four Security Analysis
Chapter 13 Economy / Market Analysis Must Be Considered By All Investors
Chapter 14 Sector / Industry Analysis
Chapter 15 Company Analysis
Chapter 16 Technical Analysis
Part Five Fixed-Income Securities: Analysis, Valuation and Management
Chapter 17 Fixed Income Securities Are Available Worldwide
Chapter 18 Managing Bond Portfolios: Some Issues Affect All Investors
Part Six Derivative Securities
Chapter 19 Understanding Derivative Securities: Options
Chapter 20 Understanding Derivative Securities: Futures
Part Seven Investment Management
Chapter 21 All Investors Must Consider Portfolio Management
Chapter 22 Evaluation of Investment Performance: A Global Concept

Throughout changing investment opportunities, problems, and controversies, Charles P. Jones’s Investments remains one of the most readable and comprehensive investments texts today. Students can count on the new 12th Edition for clarity, currency and balance. An effective organizational structure and essentials approach, important analytical methods, data, and finance concepts are all presented at a level that individuals of all investments backgrounds can master.