The Bond Book October 19, 2010
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The Bond Book
Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More
Author: Annette Thau
ISBN: 9780071664707 / 007166470X
©2010 | 3rd Edition | 400 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: NOV-10
Price: US$ 35.00
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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 recent events make it increasingly difficult for unfamiliar investors to choose the correct fixed income investments. The Bond Book, Third Edition, provides investors with the information and tools they need to make bonds a comforting, important, and profitable component of their portfolios. This comprehensive sourcebook, thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded from its bestselling second edition, is today’s best reference for making your best bond investment decisions. Look to this all-in-one guide for information on topics including:
- How to buy Treasuries without paying a commission
- Yield curves
- Types of high yielding savings bonds
- CMOs and REMICs
- Call risk
- Insured versus uninsured municipal bonds
- Tax concerns
- Duration
- Junk bonds
- Bond funds versus individual bonds
- Unit investment trusts and closed-end funds
- Bond ratings
- Index funds
- Asset allocation
- Swaps
- Discount versus premium bonds
Individual investors across the country have made the first two editions of Annette Thau’s The Bond Book perennial bestsellers. Now, in ever more uncertain economic times, let the totally revised, thoroughly updated The Bond Book, Third Edition start you on the path toward making your own bond investment decisions with confidence–based on facts and historical performance figures instead of hype and headlines.
About the Author
Annette Thau, Ph.D. (Teaneck, NJ) 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.
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