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by: Frank J. Fabozzi List Price: $194.00 Amazon.com's Price: $149.14 You Save: $44.86 (23%) as of 07/30/2010 07:41 EDT Used Price: $125.00 Third Party New Price: $145.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6323 EAN: 9780136078975 Edition: 7 ISBN: 0136078974 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 792 Publication Date: February 07, 2009 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall Related Items: Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Derivagem CD (7th Edition) The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities Fixed Income Securities: Tools for Today's Markets, Second Edition, University Edition Investments + Standard and Poor's Educational Version of Market Insight (Irwin/McGraw-Hill Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) Mastering Financial Calculations: A step-by-step guide to the mathematics of financial market instruments (2nd Edition) see more Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Learn how to assess and invest in bonds with this best-selling text. Fabozzi's Bond Markets is the most applied book on the market. It prepares students to analyze the bond market and manage bond portfolios without getting bogged down in the theory. The author's extensive experience in the field is reflected in this uniquely applied approach. This seventh edition has been painstakingly updated. The author conducted numerous conversations and discussions with analysts and portfolio managers to make sure that this text reflects the field today. Pricing of Bonds; Measuring Yield; Bond Price Volatility; Factors Affecting Bond Yields and the Term Structure of Interest Rates; Treasury and Agency Securities; Corporate Debt Instruments; Municipal Securities; Non-U.S. Bonds; Residential Mortgage Loans; Agency Mortgage Pass-through Securities; Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities; Prime and Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities; Commercial Loans and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities; Asset-Backed Securities; Cash Collateralized Debt Obligations; Interest Rate Models; Analysis of Bonds with Embedded Options; Analysis of Mortgage-Backed Securities; Analysis of Convertible Bonds; Corporate Bond Credit Analysis; Credit Risk Modeling; Active Bond Portfolio Management Strategies; Indexing; Liability Driven Strategies; Bond Performance Measurement and Evaluation; Interest Rate Futures; Interest Rate Options; Interest-Rate Swaps, Caps, and Floors; Credit Derivatives and Synthetic CDOs The latest edition of Fabozzi’s Bond Markets helps make sense of bond markets and mortgage financing. The 2008 financial crisis is explained as part of the newly added chapter on prime and subprime loans. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Just ok Some sections of the book were underlined throughout the page. If everything is underlined, nothing is important. Rating: - Agree with Veritas - Poorly edited, mistakes galore! I agree with Veritas in that this text and its accompanying solution manual are plagued by errors. The text, in its examples, has errors throughout the text which makes learning this material extremely difficult. For example, on page 65, Exhibit 4-5, the answers given read as "Macaulay duration (half years)", "Macaulay duration (in years)" and "Macaulay duration". The last "Macaulay duration" should read Modified duration. On page 68, an equation reads "210.62(+0.02) ... Read More Rating: - Good product....misunderstanding with the edition The seller was in touch with me throughout the entire process but I didn't receive a student edition of the book like I thought I bought instead I received a professional edition which wasn't written on the description of the book. However they did refund me some money for this mix up. Rating: - Fabozzi is the Dean of Bonds Excellent treatment of all the major concepts -- good if you are studying for the CFA exam, as well...we used this in a top 20 MBA program and I highly recommend this book...fixed income is not easy stuff, but this book explains concepts/problems in a easy to digest way.... Rating: - Plagued by Math Errors and Incomplete Formulas This book has numerous issues with incomplete formulas, math errors, and poor editing. Many of the questions at the end of the chapters are incomplete and the solutions in the manual often add in information that was not in the question. The solutions manual has lots of numbers transposed and on multipart questions these errors cause all of the answers to be incorrect. In addition, many of the solutions will change par value in the middle of the answer making it very confusing. The editor ... Read More see more