The concepts of investment management and the available tools play an effective role in achieving investors' goals. Scientific, cognitive, and technical development, the wide spread of information technology, and economic openness among the world's nations have contributed to providing various types of investment tools and have created effective methods to facilitate optimal, accurate, and well-chosen investment decisions.

This book follows a gradual, systematic approach to provide a solid scientific foundation for students, scholars, professors, specialists, and investors wishing to increase their knowledge about the nature and concept of investment, its tools, and the institutions that trade these tools, including how to form investment portfolios based on theoretical and applied concepts. It is hoped this effort will meet the need for an academic book covering the investment management course curriculum in faculties of Economics, Administration, and Finance in Arab universities. The book includes eight chapters:

• Chapter One: A general framework for the concepts and objectives of investment management, including topics on the definition of investments, their objectives, influencing factors, types, and tools.
• Chapter Two: Discusses the concepts of the time value of money and its role in evaluating investments.
• Chapter Three: Covers interest and risks on investments, presenting the nature of returns, their measurement methods, and the types and sources of risks and how to measure them.
• Chapter Four: Addresses the topic of financial investment companies and tools.
• Chapter Five: Deals with financial markets, their development, market indicators, and levels of efficiency.
• Chapter Six: Presents the types of financial instruments in the financial market and their valuation methods.
• Chapter Seven: Covers investment portfolios, portfolio theory, the nature of return and risk in a portfolio, the optimal portfolio theory, and equilibrium in the capital market.
• Chapter Eight: Presents financial derivatives and their types.

At the end of this introduction, I would like to thank my colleagues in the Department of Finance and Banking at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, especially Professor Dr. Ghalib Al-Rifai and Dr. Abdelhafid Belarbi, as well as my colleague Dr. Najm Aboud, who were the best motivators for me in completing this book.

I would also like to thank Al-Yazouri House for Printing, Publishing, and Distribution for their care in printing and repeatedly proofreading the book's draft. Finally, I can only extend my thanks and gratitude to my wife and children for their patience with my preoccupation in all my spare time writing this book over the past four years.

Weight: 0.85 kg
Dimensions: 17 × 24 cm
ISBN: 978-9957-12-187-7