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Cover -- The Bond and Money Markets: Strategy, Trading, Analysis -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the author -- Part I Introduction to the Bond Markets -- Chapter 1 The Debt Capital Markets -- 1.1 Description -- 1.2 Bond issuers -- 1.3 Capital market participants -- 1.4 World bond markets -- 1.5 Overview of the main bond markets -- 1.6 Financial engineering in the bond markets -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 2 Financial Markets Arithmetic -- 2.1 Simple and compound interest -- 2.2 The time value of money -- 2.3 Multiple cash flows -- 2.4 Corporate finance project appraisal -- 2.5 Interpolation and extrapolation -- 2.6 Measuring the rate of return -- 2.7 Indices -- Appendices -- References -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 3 Traditional Bond Pricing -- 3.1 Pricing a conventional bond -- 3.2 Pricing zero-coupon bonds -- 3.3 Clean and dirty bond prices -- 3.4 Bond price and yield relationship -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 4 Bond Yield Measurement -- 4.1 Current yield -- 4.2 Simple yield to maturity -- 4.3 Yield to maturity -- 4.4 Yield on a zero-coupon bond -- 4.5 Modifying bond yields -- 4.6 Converting bond yields -- 4.7 Assumptions of the redemption yield calculation -- 4.8 Holding-period yield -- 4.9 Bonds with embedded options -- 4.10 Index-linked bonds -- 4.11 Yields on floating-rate bonds -- 4.12 Measuring yield for a bond portfolio -- 4.13 The price/yield relationship -- 4.14 Summary -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 5 Review of Bond Market Instruments -- 5.1 Floating Rate Notes -- 5.2 Inverse/Reverse floating-rate bonds -- 5.3 Asset-backed bonds -- 5.4 PIBS -- 5.5 Callable bonds -- 5.6 Index-linked bonds -- Appendices.
Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 6 The Yield Curve -- 6.1 Using the yield curve -- 6.2 Yield-to-maturity yield curve -- 6.3 The coupon yield curve -- 6.4 The par yield curve -- 6.5 The zero-coupon (or spot) yield curve -- 6.6 The forward yield curve -- 6.7 The annuity yield curve -- 6.8 Analysing and interpreting the yield curve -- 6.9 Interpreting the yield curve -- 6.10 Fitting the yield curve -- 6.11 Spot and forward rates in the market -- 6.12 Examples, exercises and calculations -- 6.13 Case Study: Deriving a discount function28 -- 6.14 Case Study exercise: Deriving the theoretical zero-coupon (spot) rate curve -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 7 Price, Yield and Interest Rate Risk I -- 7.1 Revisiting the bond price/yield relationship -- 7.2 Duration -- 7.3 A summary of the duration measure -- 7.4 Duration for other securities -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 8 Price, Yield and Interest Rate Risk II -- 8.1 Basis point value -- 8.2 Yield value of price change -- 8.3 Hedging using basis point value -- 8.4 Volatility weighting for hedging -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 9 Price, Yield and Interest Rate Risk III -- 9.1 Convexity -- 9.2 Summarising the properties of convexity -- 9.3 Dispersion -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 10 Price, Yield and Interest Rate Risk IV -- 10.1 Yield curve changes -- 10.2 Portfolio duration and changes in the yield curve -- 10.3 Hedging strategy and duration -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Part II Government Bond Markets -- Chapter 11 The United Kingdom Gilt Market -- 11.1 Introduction and history -- 11.2 Market instruments -- 11.3 Taxation.
11.4 Market structure -- 11.5 Market makers and brokers -- 11.6 Issuing gilts -- 11.7 The DMO and secondary market trading -- 11.8 Settlement -- 11.9 Index-linked gilts analytics -- 11.10 Gilt strips -- 11.11 Zero-coupon bond trading and strategy -- 11.12 Strips market anomalies -- 11.13 Trading strategy -- 11.14 Illustration: Yield and cash flow analysis -- 11.15 Future developments in strips -- 11.16 HM Treasury and the remit of the Debt Management Office -- 11.17 Gilt derivatives and repo markets -- 11.18 The Minimum Funding Requirement -- 11.19 Developments in electronic trading -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 12 The US Treasury Bond Market -- 12.1 The US Treasury -- 12.2 The Federal Reserve -- 12.3 Market convention -- 12.4 The Primary Market -- 12.5 The Secondary Market -- 12.6 Treasury strips -- 12.7 Inflation-protected Treasury bonds -- 12.8 Treasury repo market -- 12.9 Federal Agency bonds -- 12.10 Derivatives markets -- 12.11 Historical long-bond yields -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 13 International Bond Markets -- 13.1 Overview of government markets -- 13.2 Germany -- 13.3 Italy -- 13.4 France -- 13.5 Japan -- 13.6 Australia -- 13.7 New Zealand -- 13.8 Canada -- 13.9 Hungary -- 13.10 South Africa -- 13.11 Egypt -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Part III Corporate Debt Markets -- Chapter 14 Corporate Debt Markets -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Determinants of the development of a corporate market -- 14.3 The primary market -- 14.4 The secondary market -- 14.5 Fundamentals of corporate bonds -- 14.6 Bond security -- 14.7 Redemption provisions -- 14.8 Corporate bond risks -- 14.9 High-yield corporate bonds -- 14.10 Corporate bond offering circular -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises.
Chapter 15 Analysis of Bonds With Embedded Options -- 15.1 Understanding embedded option elements in a bond -- 15.2 The Binomial tree of short-term interest rates -- 15.3 Pricing callable bonds -- 15.4 Price and yield sensitivity -- 15.5 Price volatility of bonds with embedded options -- 15.6 Sinking funds -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 16 Convertible Bonds I -- 16.1 Basic description -- 16.2 Advantages of issuing and holding convertibles -- Selected bibliography and references -- Chapter 17 Convertible Bonds II -- 17.1 Traditional valuation methodology -- 17.2 Fair value of a convertible bond -- 17.3 Further issues in valuing convertible bonds -- 17.4 Convertible bond default risk -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 18 The Eurobond Market I -- 18.1 Eurobonds -- 18.2 Foreign bonds -- 18.3 Eurobond instruments -- 18.4 The issuing process: market participants -- 18.5 Fees, expenses and pricing -- 18.6 Issuing the bond -- 18.7 Covenants -- 18.8 Trust services -- 18.9 Form of the bond -- 18.10 Clearing systems -- 18.11 Market associations -- 18.12 Secondary market -- 18.13 Settlement -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 19 Eurobonds II -- 19.1 Legal and tax issues -- 19.2 The secondary market -- 19.3 Eurobonds and swap transactions -- Chapter 20 Warrants -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Analysis -- 20.3 Bond warrants -- 20.4 Comparison of warrants and convertibles -- Selected bibliography and references -- Chapter 21 Medium-term Notes -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 The primary market -- 21.3 MTNs and corporate bonds -- 21.4 Issue mechanism -- 21.5 The secondary market -- 21.6 The Euro-MTN market -- 21.7 Structured MTNs -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 22 Commercial Paper -- 22.1 Commercial Paper programmes.
22.2 Commercial paper yields -- Selected bibliography -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 23 Preference Shares and Preferred Stock -- 23.1 The size of the market -- 23.2 Description and definition of preference shares -- 23.3 Cost of preference share capital -- 23.4 The preference share market -- 23.5 Auction market preferred stock (Amps) -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 24 The US Municipal Bond Market -- 24.1 Description of municipal bonds -- 24.2 The municipal bond market -- 24.3 Municipal bonds credit ratings -- 24.4 Bond insurance -- 24.5 Taxation issues -- 24.6 Exotic municipal bonds -- 24.7 Municipal money market instruments -- Appendices -- Selected bibliography and references -- Chapter 25 Asset-Backed Bonds I: Mortgage-backed Securities -- 25.1 Mortgage-backed securities -- 25.2 Cash flow patterns -- 25.3 Evaluation and analysis of mortgage-backed bonds -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 26 Mortgage-backed Bonds II -- 26.1 Basic concepts -- 26.2 Pricing and modelling techniques -- 26.3 Interest rate risk -- 26.4 Portfolio performance -- Selected bibliography and references -- Chapter 27 Asset-backed Securities III -- 27.1 Collateralised mortgage securities -- 27.2 Non-agency CMO bonds -- 27.3 Commercial mortgage-backed securities -- 27.4 Motor-car-backed securities -- 27.5 Credit card asset-backed securities -- 27.6 Static spread analysis of asset-backed bonds -- 27.7 Conclusion -- Selected bibliography and references -- Questions and exercises -- Chapter 28 Collateralised Debt Obligations -- 28.1 An overview of CDOs -- 28.2 Relative value analysis -- 28.3 Credit derivatives6 -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 29 High-yield Bonds -- 29.1 Growth of the market -- 29.2 High-yield securities -- 29.3 High-yield bond performance -- Selected bibliography and references.
Chapter 30 Corporate Bonds and Credit Analysis.
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