This book is a guide to the calculations involved in managing bonds, with expert insight on the portfolios and investment strategies that puts the math in perspective. The book explains how to delineate the characteristics of different types of debt securities; calculate implied forward and spot...

"By 2016 global real estate markets have generally recovered as real estate asset prices have increased beyond pre-crisis levels. Whereas debt and equity capital was scarce at the time we wrote the first edition, capital is now abundant. In addition, many institutions who had completely exited...

The definitive new edition of the most trusted book on municipal bonds As of the end of 1998, municipal bonds, issued by state or local governments to finance public works programs, such as the building of schools, streets, and electrical grids, totaled almost $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt,...