Strumeyer Investing in Fixed Income Securities

Understanding the Bond Market
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-71971-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Finance Editions

Investors who've primarily purchased equity securities in the pasthave been looking for more secure investment alternatives; namely,fixed income securities. This book demystifies the sometimesdaunting fixed income market, through a user-friendly,sophisticated, yet not overly mathematical format. Investing inFixed Income Securities covers a wide range of topics,including the different types of fixed income securities, theircharacteristics, the strategies necessary to manage a diversifiedportfolio, bond pricing concepts, and more, so you can make themost informed investment decisions possible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strumeyer, Gary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1: An Overview of the Fixed Income SecuritiesMarket.
Chapter 2: The Basics of Debt Instruments.
Chapter 3: Bond Pricing Concepts.
Chapter 4: Risks Associated with Bonds.
Chapter 5: Macroeconomics and the Bond Market.
Chapter 6: Using Economic Variables to Forecast Interest Ratesand the Bond Market.
Chapter 7: The Yield Curve.
Chapter 8: Money Market Instruments.
Chapter 9: U.S. Treasury and Government Agency Securities.
Chapter 10: Municipal Bonds.
Chapter 11: Corporate Bonds.
Chapter 12: Emerging Markets.
Chapter 13: Distressed Debt Securities.
Chapter 14: Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Chapter 15: Asset-Backed Securities.
Chapter 16: Preferred Stock.
Chapter 17: Fixed Income Derivatives: Products andApplications.
Chapter 18: Managing a Fixed Income Portfolio.
About the Co-Writers.
Notes.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Strumeyer is the Managing Director of the Bond and Money Market Group at BNY Capital Markets, Inc., a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of The Bank of New York Company, Inc., and has been with the company for twenty years. He is a former adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Strumeyer is the author of Keys to Investing in Municipal Bonds, published by Barron's in 1996. He recently served on the NASD's Corporate Debt Market Panel. The panel's purpose was to review and make recommendations to the NASD Board of Governors regarding how to best insure market integrity and investor protection in the corporate bond market.