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

Product Description: Bonds are the financial Cinderellas of the new millennium. Investors became aware of their charms when they saw their stock portfolios tanking while bonds were delivering double-digit returns. With the discovery that bonds could be a lucrative as well as a safe investment came a major problem: no single source of easily accessible information has been available that uniformly describes bonds, compares their relative strengths and drawbacks, and tells how to select and profit from buying them -- until now...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The latest volume in the McGraw-Hill "Straight Talk" series offers novice investors the straightforward, simple explanations they need to profit in the popular, multi-trillion-dollar bond market--including frank advice about the negatives of mutual funds and unit investment trusts that small investors rarely hear about...read more

A handbook for buying and selling municipal bonds discusses the benefits and risks of investing in them and how they are affected by the 1986 Tax Reform Act

Discusses the features of municipal bonds and offers advice on techniques for investing in municipal bonds