Investments 12th Edition Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane and Alan Marcus. Chapters 1-4, 5, 9, 11, 14-15, 20 and 24.
Focus on concepts, and terminology (vocabulary, definitions, notation).
Ch. 1 The Investment Environment
Ch. 2 Asset Classes and Financial Instruments
Ch. 3 How Securities Are Traded
Ch. 4 Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
Ch. 5 Risk, Return, and the Historical Record
Ch. 9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Ch. 14 Bond Prices and Yields
Ch. 15 The Term Structure of Interest Rates
Ch. 19 Financial Statement Analysis
Ch. 20 Options Markets: Introduction
Ch. 24 Portfolio Performance Evaluation