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

by Thau, Annette

• ISBN13: 9780071358620
• ISBN10: 0071358625
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-02
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

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 '¬Ssafe 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

Author Biography

Annette Thau, Ph.D., is a former municipal bond analyst for Chase Manhattan Bank. Until recently, Dr. Thau was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University 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.

Table of Contents

Part One: 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.

Part Two: 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.