PART I: INTRODUCTION 1: Financial Assets and Financial Markets 2: Overview of Risks and Risk Management PART II: THE PLAYERS 3: Overview of Market Participants 4: Depository Institutions 5: Central Banks 6: Insurance Companies and Defined Benefit Pension Plans 7: Managers of Collective Investment Vehicles 8: Investment Banking Firms PART III: FUND RAISING MARKETS 9: Primary and Secondary Markets 10: Securitization and Its Role in Primary Markets 11: Financing Markets for Small Businesses PART IV: BASICS OF DERIVATIVES MARKETS 12: Introduction to Risk-Sharing Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, and Swaps 13: Introduction to Insurance-Type Derivatives: Options, Credit Default Swaps, Caps, and Floors PART V: Risk And Return Theories 14: Return Distributions and Risk Measures 15: Portfolio Selection Theory 16: Asset Pricing Theories PART VI: INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION AND DEBT PRICING 17: The Theory and Structure of Interest Rates 18: Valuation of Debt Contracts and Their Price Volatility Characteristics 19: The Term Structure of Interest Rates PART VII: EQUITY MARKETS 20: The Structure of the Common Stock Market 21: Common Stock Strategies and Trading Arrangements PART VIII: DEBT MARKETS 22: The Money Market for Private Debt Instruments 23: Treasury and Agency Securities Markets 24: Municipal Securities Markets 25: Corporate Senior Instruments Markets 26: International Bond Markets 27: The Residential Mortgage Market 28: The Market for U.S. Agency Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities 29: The Market for Credit-Sensitive Securitized Products PART IX: DERIVATIVES MARKETS 30: The Market for Equity Derivatives 31: The Market for Interest Rate Risk Transfer Vehicles: Exchange-Traded Products 32: The Market for Interest Rate Risk Transfer Vehicles: OTC Instruments 33: The Market for Credit Risk Transfer Vehicles 34: The Market for Foreign Exchange and Risk Control Instruments PART X: TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITAL MARKETS 35: Capital Market Technologies.