FICC & Equities

By: Annette Thau 2000 ed. 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.

By: Frank Fabozzi 2005 ed. The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, Seventh Edition, equips you with a comprehensive overview of all fixed income securities and strategies and continues to be the investment industry's most accessible and all-inclusive resource. Invaluable for its theoretical insights, unsurpassed in its hands-on guidance, and unequalled in the expertise and authority of its contributors, this concise, complete explanation of fixed income securities and applications remains the one fixed income reference to have within reach at all times.

By: Marcia Stigum 1996 ed. The Money Market (3rd Ed., 1990), Money Market and Bond Calculations provides precise and thorough explanations for valuing fixed-income instruments throughout the world. The authors present an economical, consistent and easy-to-remember notation, one designed to make their equations simple to grasp and to manipulate. The authors also discuss interest-payment conventions and day-count fractions, topics that are crucial to understanding the pricing of various instruments covered in this book. Filled with examples that assume yields ranging from low to high, Money Market and Bond Calculations addresses: important price/yield relationships for discount and interest-bearing money market paper and examples of how these relationships can be used in practical and common situations to derive breakeven and other key numbers; commonly used concepts of yield and the standard bond equation, the equation most commonly used to make price/yield calculations for notes and bonds; more advanced topics regarding bonds: carry, various measures of duration, convexity and the ways in which the latter two measures of risk can be applied in putting on arbitrages and in portfolio management; and fixed-income securities worldwide, including covered interest arbitrage, floating-rate notes (FRNs), payment-in-kind bonds (PIKs) and descriptions of and calculations for the sovereign debt issued of major countries. Money and bond markets offer enormous opportunities for all market players - Money Market and Bond Calculations will help the reader profit from these opportunities.

By David Darst 2003 ed. The Art of Asset Allocation is today's most comprehensive and hands-on guidebook for using asset allocation principles to dramatically improve the performance of virtually any portfolio and written by one of today's top asset allocation practitioners and experts.

By: David Swensen 2000 ed. During his fourteen years as Yale's chief investment officer, David F. Swensen has transformed the management of the university's portfolio. Largely by focusing on nonconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity, Swensen has achieved an annualized return of 16.2 percent, which has propelled Yale's endowment into the top tier of institutional funds. Now, this acknowledged leader of fund managers draws on his experience and deep knowledge of the financial markets to provide a compendium of powerful investment strategies.

By: Jack Schwager 2003 ed. It has been nearly a decade since the publication of the highly successful The New Market Wizards. The interim has witnessed the most dynamic bull market in U.S. stock history, a collapse in commodity prices, dramatic failures in some of the world's leading hedge funds, the burst of the internet bubble, a fall into recession, and subsequent rumblings of recovery. Who have been the "market wizards" during this tumultuous financial period? How do some traders manage to continually outperform a stock market? The answers are here.

By: Jeremy Siegel 1998 ed. This classic guide has been revised to include today's most successful investment strategies. With its phenomenal analysis of financial market returns since 1802, no other book offers such an in-depth historical--and yet timely--perspective on what drives the market.