This article examines the claim of securities markets efficiency based on the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which Fama proclaimed to be a well substantiated truth in 1978. Behavioural theory shows that individuals do not act to maximise their utility as asserted by neoclassical economists,...

The relation between market risk and asset returns can be modeled with the Security Market Line (SML), a positive linear relation between expected excess asset returns and the asset's beta. Pettengill et al (1995) make the case that tests of beta must be conditioned upon excess market returns to...

The US securities market offer companies one of the richest sources of capital in the world as a result of their size, credibility and pool of enthusiastic investors. However, taking a company through a public offering on the US securities market is a major undertaking and presents complex...

Alle Finanzprodukte werden in diesem Bestseller prägnant erläutert und durch viele Schaubilder übersichtlich dargestellt. Finanznachrichten gehen alle etwas an - denn schliesslich ist jeder direkt oder indirekt vom Geschehen an den Finanzmärkten betroffen. Der erfolgreiche...