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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 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.

Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded from its bestselling first edition, this all-in-one sourcebook includes:

*A new section on using the Internet to research, buy, and sell bonds *A new chapter devoted to increasingly popular foreign bonds *Detailed information on the inflation-linked Treasury bonds *Explanation of the new categories of bond funds *Tips on how to evaluate and buy bond funds.
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In "Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth", two veteran investors expose the myth of stocks' superior investment returns and propose an all-bond portfolio as a sure-footed strategy that can ensure results. The book, an expanded and updated version of "The Money-Making Guide to Bonds", is designed to educate novice and sophisticated investors alike and serve as a tool for financial advisers as well. It explains why bonds can be the right choice and how to use them to achieve financial goals. It presents a broad spectrum of bond-investment options, describes how to purchase bonds at the best price, and, most important, shows how to make money with bonds.

The wealthiest investors and financial advisers use the bond strategies outlined in this book to maximize the the return on their portfolios while providing security of principal. The strategies can help you determine how to use bonds in your portfolio and take control of your financial destiny. You'll be playing it smart while playing it safe.

Earn 15 hours of credit toward your CFP Board requirement..
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In the Second Edition of Fixed Income Analysis, financial expert Frank Fabozzi and a team of knowledgeable contributors provide complete coverage of the most important issues in fixed income analysis.

Now, in Fixed Income Analysis Workbook, Second Edition, Fabozzi offers you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will solidify your understanding of the tools and techniques associated with this discipline. This comprehensive study guide--which parallels the main book chapter by chapter--contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews.

If you want to make the most of your time in the fixed income marketplace, the lessons within this workbook can show you how. Topics reviewed include:

• The risks associated with investing in fixed income securities
• The fundamentals of valuation and interest rate risk
• The features of structured products--such as mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities
• The principles of credit analysis
• The valuation of fixed income securities with embedded options

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Praise for Fixed Income Securities, Second Edition

"What distinguishes this book from many others on the subject is that Tuckman has skillfully combined intuitive rationale with mathematical analysis to give readers a clear and deep understanding of the market. Tuckman has written a comprehensive reference book that should be found on the desks of both seasoned practitioners and novices alike."
–Gerald Lucas, Senior Government Strategist
Director, Global Securities Research, Merrill Lynch

"This outstanding book offers a well-written and clear tutorial for many of the cutting-edge analytical techniques and models used in practice. Combines a wealth of institutional knowledge, practical tools, and realistic examples, while giving a clear understanding of the underlying theory."
–Francis Longstaff, Professor of Finance
The Anderson School at UCLA

"An excellent reference for anyone intending to bridge the gap between financial mathematics theory and the practice of financial markets."
–Marek Musiela, BNP Paribas

"This is an extremely readable book with a balance between technical detail and practical application. Unlike other books in the area, thorough and tightly knit chapters reflect Tuckman’s unique background as a well-respected academic and market participant."
–Tony D. Kao, Managing Director, Global Fixed Income
GM Asset Management.
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The standard reference for fixed income portfolio managers

Despite their conservative nature, fixed income instruments are among the investment industry's most complex and potentially risky investments. Fixed Income Mathematics is recognized worldwide as the essential professional reference for understanding the concepts and evaluative methodologies for bonds, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and other fixed income instruments.

This fully revised and updated fourth edition features all-new illustrations of the future and present value of money, with appendices on continuous compounding and new sections and chapters addressing risk measures, cash flow characteristics of credit-sensitive mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, and more.

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Income Investing Today

Income Investing Today details a safe alternative to the downside risks inherent in the stock market--income securities that can provide a 7% to 8% annual cash income. With this book, fixed income expert Richard Lehmann outlines income investing concepts you need to understand, various investment vehicles, and investment strategies that will help you build a safe, diversified portfolio of investments.

The investment vehicles he explains range well beyond traditional fixed income securities or creditor instruments such as bonds, to include hybrids, REITs, mutual funds, and more. He shows that the key to building a steady, growth-oriented income portfolio is to diversify over a variety of securities that depend on different drivers--that is, portfolios that are not vulnerable to any one specific economic factor such as interest rates.

The ideal guide for individual investors saving for retirement and seeking more safety in their portfolios, Income Investing Today shows how a diversified collection of income securities can equal or exceed the returns from common stock with much lower risk..
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With all of the investment alternatives that the U.S. economy has to offer, doesn't it seem like there should be a simple, low-risk way to earn a respectable return?

After four years of research, Doug K. Le Du, an investment researcher, has answered that question, and has written it down, in plain English for non-experts, in Preferred Stock Investing.

Let's face it. Bank Certificates of Deposit (CDs) and bonds are low-risk, but you just can't make any real money investing in them. By the time you subtract out income taxes and inflation, you're not left with much (if anything).

To offset the loss to income taxes and inflation, we need a simple investment method that earns several times what CDs or bonds pay, but at "CD-like" risk.

Preferred Stock Investing is based on extensive research to identify the highest quality, lowest risk preferred stocks - "CDx3 Preferred Stocks." Only about 10% of the preferred stocks trading on the market today qualify as CDx3 Preferred Stocks.

And look at the results:

* 14.5% is the average effective annual return earned by all CDx3 Preferred Stocks, issued since January 2001, using the investment method described in Preferred Stock Investing - the "CDx3 Income Engine."

* 97.5% is the percentage of CDx3 Preferred Stocks, issued since January 2001, that reached or exceeded their "Target Sell Price" on the exact date that the CDx3 Income Engine said they should (and they are all listed in Preferred Stock Investing).

* 5.6 is the number of times more money that you would have earned by using the CDx3 Income Engine investment method, rather than average bank CDs, since January 2001.

Preferred Stock Investing is great for IRA investors or as a much better alternative to bank Certificates of Deposit or bonds.

Also, through the book's website, readers of Preferred Stock Investing are supported by a wealth of continuously updated resources, including a free monthly newsletter where Doug K. Le Du, author of Preferred Stock Investing, provides all kinds of tips and answers to reader's questions.

Chapter 9 of Preferred Stock Investing shows you all of the actual investment results from every qualifying preferred stock issued since January 2001. As a reader of Preferred Stock Investing, you are entitled to free, ongoing updates to Chapter 9 (the book provides a special email address for you to use). Preferred Stock Investing is never "out of date."

Preferred Stock Investing teaches you what you need to know to be a very successful "CDx3 Investor," and it takes no more of your time than reading a monthly bank statement.

Optionally, there is also a "CDx3 Notification Service" where the service does the work for you, and just emails you whenever there is a buying or selling opportunity - weeks in advance. They do the research and calculations, you make the decisions.

Learn how to earn several times what bank CDs or bonds can make for you, at "CD-like" risk, by reading Preferred Stock Investing..
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Investors who've primarily purchased equity securities in the past have been looking for more secure investment alternatives; namely, fixed income securities This book demystifies the sometimes daunting fixed income market, through a user-friendly, sophisticated, yet not overly mathematical format. Investing in Fixed Income Securities covers a wide range of topics, including the different types of fixed income securities, their characteristics, the strategies necessary to manage a diversified portfolio, bond pricing concepts, and more, so you can make the most informed investment decisions possible..
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This textbook will be designed for fixed-income securities courses taught on MSc Finance and MBA courses. There is currently no suitable text that offers a 'Hull-type' book for the fixed income student market. This book aims to fill this need. The book will contain numerous worked examples, excel spreadsheets, with a building block approach throughout. A key feature of the book will be coverage of both traditional and alternative investment strategies in the fixed-income market, for example, the book will cover the modern strategies used by fixed-income hedge funds.

• The text will be supported by a set of PowerPoint slides for use by the lecturer
• First textbook designed for students written on fixed-income securities - a growing market
• Contains numerous worked examples throughout
• Includes coverage of important topics often omitted in other books i.e. deriving the zero yield curve, deriving credit spreads, hedging and also covers interest rate and credit derivatives

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