Product Description

For undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Bonds and Investments, and other upper-level college courses in Economics or Finance that focus on bond markets.

This comprehensive textbook on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It contains detailed presentations of each type of bond and includes a wide range of products. Extensive discussions include not only the instruments, but also their investment characteristics, the state-of-the art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2195772 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

From the Back Cover

Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, Fifth Edition, takes a practical real-world approach to bond investing and includes a detailed discussion of each type of bond and interest rate derivative instrument. The text features a comprehensive discussion of not only the investment instruments, but also their speculative characteristics, the state-of-the-art technology for valuing them, techniques for quantifying interest rate risk, and the portfolio strategies for using them. These strategies include active strategies and structured portfolio strategies.

• "Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities"
• "Collateralized Debt Obligations"
• "Credit Derivatives"

There are major revisions to two chapters: "Treasury and Agency Securities Markets" and "Non-U.S. Bonds." In addition, there is expanded coverage of the factors considered by rating agencies in rating corporate bonds, asset classes securitized, tracking error and active portfolio strategies, and the valuation of interest rate swaps and caps/floors.