Advanced Fixed-Income Valuation Tools

Presenting the most advanced thinking on the topic, this book covers the latest valuation models and techniques. It addresses essential topics such as the subtleties of fixed-income mathematics, new approaches to modeling term structures, and the applications of fixed-income valuation on credit risk, mortgages, munis, and indexed bonds.

NARASIMHAN JEGADEESH, PhD, is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was formerly a member of the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles and he received his PhD in finance from Columbia University. Professor Jegadeesh has been published extensively in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and other leading financial journals. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Securities Market. He is also an investment consultant for the hedge funds managed by Arbitrade Holdings LLC.<br> <br> TUCKMAN, PhD, is Managing Director and Global Head of Relative Value Modeling at Credit Suisse First Boston. After receiving his doctorate in economics from MIT, he became a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business and a visiting professor at UCLA's Anderson School. He began his Wall Street career at Salomon Brothers' Fixed Income Proprietary Trading Group.