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Product Description: Your friendly guide to trading the bond and bond fund market Bonds and bond funds are among the safest and most reliable investments you can make to ensure an ample and dependable retirement income―if you do it right! Bond Investing For Dummies helps you do just that, with clear explanations of everything you need to know to build a diversified bond portfolio that will be there when you need it no matter what happens in the stock market...read more

'A comprehensive guide to selecting and purchasing bonds, with a special section on constructing the all-bond portfolio'--Provided by publisher.

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A dynamic, equity-style approach to investing in today's bond market "Tony Crescenzi knows bonds and his book proves it. From 'Fedspeak' to Treasury buybacks, The Strategic Bond Investor helps to explain the mysteries of the bond market and even offers tips on how to forecast interest rates. Sign me up—I can always learn something new!"—Bill Gross, Managing Director at Pacific Investment Management Company Bond investing can be every bit as exciting and profitable as "playing the stock market." The Strategic Bond Investor is the first book to approach fixed-income investing from an equity-style perspective. This fast-paced book provides readers with helpful tips, tools, and strategies for tracking market sentiment, spotting market extremes, analyzing volume and liquidity, and dozens of other techniques that were­­up until now­­limited primarily to the equity markets. The Strategic Bond Investor reveals a dramatic new approach for using bonds to balance portfolios while grabbing profit opportunities as they present themselves. It represents a new style of bond investing, bold yet risk-conscious, that is long overdue for today's transformed market environment. Investors looking to diversify their portfolios will discover: Key economic releases and how they influence bond prices Popular fixed-income portfolio management strategies Best-performing bonds in a variety of economic circumstances

Explains the advantages and disadvantages of investing in bonds, describes the different types of bonds available, and suggests an investment strategy

Product Description: A comprehensive, practical guidebook to bonds and the bond market Speaking directly to the practitioner, this thorough guide covers everything there is to know about bonds―from basic concepts to more advanced bond topics. The Complete Practitioner’s Guide to the Bond Market addresses the principles of the bond market and offers the tools to apply them in the real world...read more

Product Description: This handy title shows potential investors, and those with an interest in the bond markets, how to assess the risks and rewards and give criteria on which to base investment decisions. The following areas are included: Gilt Edge Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Convertibles, Index Linked Bonds, Zeros, Undated stocks, Euro Bonds, High-Risk Junk Bonds and Bond funds...read more

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Everything you need to know about bonds Bonds are a key component in every portfolio, making it essential that investors understand what exactly they are and how they function. Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition has been fully updated and revised to take into account the ever-changing bond market as well as the current economic environment. This new edition explains the fundamentals of bonds in clear, easy-to-understand language. It includes in-depth coverage of a variety of debt products, from Treasury notes to high-yield junk bonds and everything in between. This comprehensive guide is an essential primer for anyone who would like to invest in bonds but doesn't know where to start. Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition uses straightforward, accessible language that will help readers understand even the most complicated bond issues. Sharon Wright (Byfield, MA) was, most recently, fixed-income sales director at Lehman Brothers. Previously, she was assistant vice president at Fidelity Capital Markets. (view table of contents)

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