The Complete Practitioner's Guide to the Bond

A comprehensive, practical guidebook to bonds and the bond market Speaking directly to the practitioner, this thorough guide covers everything there is to know about bonds from basic concepts to more advancedbond topics.The Complete Practitioner's Guide to the Bond Market addresses the principles of the bond market and offers the tools to apply them in the real world. By tying the concepts of fixed-income products to big-picture aspects of the economy, this book prepares readers toapply specific tools and methods that will help them glean profits from the bond market.

Steven Dym is a president of a US investment management firm, Mariner Capital Partners. His articles have appearedin various publications including the Journal of PortfolioManagement, Financial Analysts Journal, and Risk Magazine.

Introduction	p. 1
Fundamental Principles of Bond Structure, Pricing, and Investing	p. 5
What Is a Bond?	p. 7
Nonplain Vanilla Bonds	p. 17
Bond Math-Without the Math	p. 23
Bond Investment Management	p. 35
Macroeconomics for Market Professionals	p. 49
How the Economy Works	p. 51
The Central Bank's Goals, Targets, and Operations	p. 69
Inflation, Yield Curve, and Credit Factors In Bonds	p. 83
Inflation-Protected Bonds	p. 85
The Yield Curve	p. 97
Corporate Bonds	p. 115
More on Corporates: Cyclicality, Collateral, and Convertibles	p. 131
Analytical Tools and Techniques	p. 143
Carry, Rolls, Breakevens, and Recovery	p. 145
Measuring and Managing Interest-Rate Risk	p. 159
Convexity, Volatility, and Callability	p. 175
Libor-Based Securities and Derivatives	p. 197
Money Market Instruments	p. 199
Floating-Rate Notes	p. 207
Those Newfangled Floaters	p. 215
Interest-Rate Swaps	p. 227
How Institutional Investors Use Swaps	p. 249
Foreign Trade and Investments	p. 263
Foreign Trade, Foreign Exchange, and Foreign Bonds	p. 265
Emerging Markets	p. 289
Advanced Topics	p. 299
The Role of Dealers	p. 301
Repurchase Agreements	p. 321
Credit Derivatives: The Final Frontier	p. 341
Hedge Funds in the Fixed-Income Space	p. 371
Notes	p. 395
Index	p. 445
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