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Larry E. Swedroe, Joseph H. Hempen
The Only Guide to a Winning Bond Strategy You'll Ever Need: The Way Smart Money Preserves Wealth Today
by Truman Talley Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-03-07)

Larry Swedroe has collaborated with Joe H. Hempen to create a totally up-to-date book on how to invest in today+s bond market. It covers a range of issues pertinent to any bond investor including:¥ Bond-speak¥ The risks of fixed income investing¥ Mortgage-backed securities¥ Tax-free municipal bonds.The Only Guide to A Winning Bond Strategy You+ll Ever Need is a no-nonsense handbook with all the information necessary to design and construct your fixed income portfolio. In this day and age of shaky stocks and economic unpredictability, Swedroe offers a crucial tool for any investor looking to safeguard his or her money.

Annette Thau
The Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More
by McGraw-Hill (Hardcover)

In today's volatile financial environment, growing numbers of investors are looking to flee the stock market in search of safer ground. While the bond market has often been a safe haven, confusing new bonds and bond funds make it increasingly difficult for unfamiliar investors to choose the correct fixed income investments. The Bond Book provides investors with the information and tools they need to make bonds a comforting, important, and profitable component of their portfolios. Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded from its bestselling first edition, this all-in-one sourcebook includes: *A new section on using the Internet to research, buy, and sell bonds *A new chapter devoted to increasingly popular foreign bonds *Detailed information on the inflation-linked Treasury bonds *Explanation of the new categories of bond funds *Tips on how to evaluate and buy bond funds

Connie Bruck
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges.

Frank J Fabozzi
Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies (7th Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Hardcover)

Learn how to assess and invest in bonds with this best-selling text. Fabozzi's Bond Markets is the most applied book on the market.  It prepares students to analyze the bond market and manage bond portfolios without getting bogged down in the theory. The author's extensive experience in the field is reflected in this uniquely applied approach. This seventh edition has been painstakingly updated.  The author conducted numerous conversations and discussions with analysts and portfolio managers to make sure that this text reflects the field today. Pricing of Bonds; Measuring Yield; Bond Price Volatility; Factors Affecting Bond Yields and the Term Structure of Interest Rates; Treasury and Agency Securities; Corporate Debt Instruments; Municipal Securities; Non-U.S. Bonds; Residential Mortgage Loans; Agency Mortgage Pass-through Securities; Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities; Prime and Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities; Commercial ...

Hildy Richelson, Stan Richelson
Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth
by Bloomberg Press (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-08-07)

In "Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth", two veteran investors expose the myth of stocks' superior investment returns and propose an all-bond portfolio as a sure-footed strategy that can ensure results. The book, an expanded and updated version of "The Money-Making Guide to Bonds", is designed to educate novice and sophisticated investors alike and serve as a tool for financial advisers as well. It explains why bonds can be the right choice and how to use them to achieve financial goals. It presents a broad spectrum of bond-investment options, describes how to purchase bonds at the best price, and, most important, shows how to make money with bonds. The wealthiest investors and financial advisers use the bond strategies outlined in this book to maximize the the return on their portfolios while providing security of principal. The strategies can help you determine how to use bonds in your portfolio and take control of your financial destiny. You'll be playing it ...

Michael V. Brandes
Naked Guide to Bonds: What You Need to Know--Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials
by Wiley (Hardcover)

"A delightful instruction to the wonderful world of bonds for the non-professional investor, written in terms that you could explain to your mother-in-law; or that she could explain to you!" –Paul McCulley Managing Director and Fund Manager PIMCO, one of the world’s leading fixed-income managers "Michael Brandes has written a thorough, useful, and highly readable treatise on bonds. Investors seeking a balanced, diversified portfolio are advised to read it." –Tom Gardner Co-founder, The Motley Fool "This book cuts through the jargon and gets right to the point. A bond market primer that not only teaches the basics, but also is enjoyable to read." –Gregory Peters Head of Credit Strategy, Morgan Stanley "The title says it all. The book is to the point and easy to understand. I wish I had Michael’s so easy-to-understand reference to bonds years ago." –Alan R. Shaw Managing Director, U.S. Equity Research ...

Anthony Crescenzi
The Strategic Bond Investor : Strategies and Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market
by McGraw-Hill (Hardcover)

A dynamic, equity-style approach to investing in today's bond market "Tony Crescenzi knows bonds and his book proves it. From 'Fedspeak' to Treasury buybacks, The Strategic Bond Investor helps to explain the mysteries of the bond market and even offers tips on how to forecast interest rates. Sign me up--I can always learn something new!"--Bill Gross, Managing Director at Pacific Investment Management Company Bond investing can be every bit as exciting and profitable as "playing the stock market." The Strategic Bond Investor is the first book to approach fixed-income investing from an equity-style perspective. This fast-paced book provides readers with helpful tips, tools, and strategies for tracking market sentiment, spotting market extremes, analyzing volume and liquidity, and dozens of other techniques that were­­up until now­­limited primarily to the equity markets. The Strategic Bond Investor reveals a dramatic new approach for using bonds to balance portfolios ...

Esme Faerber
All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs, 3rd Edition
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

Access the unprecedented potential of bond investing! . . Bonds have come a long way in recent years. No longer just a relatively safe and secure investment, bonds now offer the potential for capital appreciation in addition to interest income. All About Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs is the key to understanding both traditional and new types of bond investments. . . This detailed but accessible introduction covers everything from basic bond characteristics to fixed-income investment techniques. You'll gain a thorough education on such topics as yield, liquidity, duration, convexity, valuation, and emerging markets and find the answers to many questions a bond investor will ask, such as:. . What percentage of my portfolio should be dedicated to bonds?. What are the newest products and where do I find them? . What are the risks involved with investing in bonds, bond mutual funds and bond ETFs?. How can I use the Internet to my advantage?. . Whether you're ...

Galen Burghardt, Terry Belton
The Treasury Bond Basis (Mcgraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)
by McGraw-Hill (Hardcover)

Now in its third edition, The Treasury Bond Basis is the mandatory reference text for Treasury bond and note futures trading rooms around the world. This updated edition reflects the numerous market changes, chief among them the Chicago Board of Trade’s decision to switch from an 8 percent to a 6 percent conversion factor. Revisions include greater detail on hedging and trading, updated explanations of options valuation and short delivery options, and discussion of global bonds futures trading and applications.

The Bond Market Association, Judy Wesalo Temel
The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds, 5th Edition
by Wiley (Hardcover)

Praise for the Classic Guide to the Bond Market "This is simply the most comprehensive, useful look-it-up book on municipal bonds I’ve ever read (said with all due respect to The ABC of Municipal Bonds my dad wrote in 1937 when I was nine). Read Fundamentals cover to cover. I’m keeping mine in my briefcase, under my arm, at my fingertips. No accountant, financial advisor, attorney, new bond salesman, reporter, regulator, test-writer, cautious, suspicious first-time investor in municipal bonds, or dinner guest is ever going to catch me again with a question about municipal bonds I can’t answer."–Jim Lebenthal, Chairman, Lebenthal & Co. "Judy Wesalo Temel gives us the Rosetta stone of the municipal bond market, the key to unraveling the many mysteries of ‘muni’s.’ Her book, a fresh take on the old standard Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds, updates chapter and verse on everything from investing to underwriting, from over-the-counter to over-the-Internet. The ...

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