The focus of this book is on equities. The two main sections of the book will be on valuation and portfolio strategies. There will background material to cover the mathematical techniques need to understand the material. Authors?plan to make this book one that can be used not only by professional investors but also one that college instructors will want to adopt for an investments course. To make this more textbook oriented there will be (1) at the end of each chapter a bullet point summary of the key points so that instructors can easily create a PowerPoint presentation and (2) at least five end of chapter questions.