Problemstellung und Aufbau des Buches -- Grundlagen der Investitionsrechnung -- Investitionsentscheidungen in einer vereinfachten Modellsituation -- Investitionsentscheidungen unter Berücksichtigung von Steuern -- Investitionsentscheidungen unter Berücksichtigung von Unsicherheiten --...

Corporate finance and corporate strategy have long been seen as different sides of the same coin. Though both focus on the same broad problem, investment decision-making, the gap between the two sides--and between theory and practice--remains embarrassingly large. This book synthesizes...

The best and the brightest investment gurus often rely on rational, statistical calculations of risk and return of investments. Pistorius traces their rhetoric and comes to a modest conclusion that stochastic predictability does not exist in investing. Thus, if we follow investment advice, we...

Institutions now dominate trading in equities around the world. Mutual funds are the most prominent, and doubly important as custodians of retirement savings. Despite this, there is no comprehensive description of fund manager behaviour, much less a matching theory. This is troubling because one...