Bond Book Everything Investors Need to Know about Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More

Name: Bond Book Everything Investors Need to Know about Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More
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ISBN: 9780071358620

ISBN-10: 0071358625

ISBN-13: 9780071358620

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Annette Thau

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This work provides inexperienced investors with the information and tools they should need to invest in bonds. This edition includes a new section on how to use the Internet to buy and sell bonds, and a chapter devoted to foreign bonds.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 11/2/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 394
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Annette Thau, Ph.D. is a former municipal bond analyst for Chase Manhattan Bank and visiting scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia and has received numerous awards, including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Younger Humanists, and University Fellowships from Columbia University.



The Basic Basics


The Life of a Bond


Buying and Selling Bonds


Volatility: Why Bond Prices Go Up and Down


Many Happy Returns, or fundamentals of Bond Math


A Guide for the Perplexed: How to Read the Financial Pages of Your Newspaper


Individual Securities


Treasuries, Savings Bonds, and Federal Agency Paper


Municipal Bonds


Mortgage-Backed Securities


Corporate Bonds


International Bonds


Investing Through Funds


Bond Mutual Funds: An Overview


Varieties of Bond Funds


Closed-End Bond Funds and Unit Investment Trusts (UITs)


Portfolio Management


Asset Allocation


Management of Bond Portfolios