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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974891503321

Autore

La Grandville Olivier de

Titolo

Bond pricing and portfolio analysis : protecting investors in the long run / / Olivier de la Grandville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2001

ISBN

9786612097225

9781282097223

1282097229

9780262274241

0262274248

9781423746799

1423746791

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 455 p. : ill

Disciplina

332.63/23

Soggetti

Bonds - Prices

Interest rates

Investment analysis

Portfolio management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-446) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 A FIRST VISIT TO INTEREST RATES AND BONDS -- 2 AN ARBITRAGE-ENFORCED VALUATION OF BONDS -- 3 THE VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF RATES OF RETURN ON BONDS: YIELD TO MATURITY AND HORIZON RATE OF RETURN -- 4 DURATION: DEFINITION, MAIN PROPERTIES, AND USES -- 5 DURATION AT WORK: THE RELATIVE BIAS IN THE T-BOND FUTURES CONVERSION FACTOR -- 6 IMMUNIZATION: A FIRST APPROACH -- 7 CONVEXITY: DEFINITION, MAIN PROPERTIES, AND USES -- 8 THE IMPORTANCE OF CONVEXITY IN BOND MANAGEMENT -- 9 THE YIELD CURVE AND THE TERM STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES -- 10 IMMUNIZING BOND PORTFOLIOS AGAINST PARALLEL MOVES OF THE SPOT RATE STRUCTURE -- 11 CONTINUOUS SPOT AND FORWARD RATES OF RETURN, WITH TWO IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS -- 12 TWO IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS --



13 ESTIMATING THE LONG-TERM EXPECTED RATE OF RETURN, ITS VARIANCE, AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION -- 14 INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF DIRECTIONAL DURATION -- 15 A GENERAL IMMUNIZATION THEOREM, AND APPLICATIONS -- 16 ARBITRAGE PRICING IN DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS TIME -- 17 THE HEATH-JARROW-MORTON MODEL OF FORWARD INTEREST RATES, BOND PRICES, AND DERIVATIVES -- 18 THE HEATH-JARROW-MORTON MODEL AT WORK: APPLICATIONS TO BOND IMMUNIZATION -- BY WAY OF CONCLUSION: SOME FURTHER STEPS -- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, Olivier de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization. Among the book's most valuable contributions is a general immunization theorem that can be used by practitioners to protect investors against any change in the structure of spot interest rates. Also of note is the detailed presentation of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model and a discussion of its relationships with classical immunization schemes. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions, problem sets, and projects; detailed solutions to all of them appear at the end of the book. Although the treatment is thorough and rigorous, the presentation throughout the book is intuitive.