Bonds Books

Richard Band's "Contrary Investing" book is a must for anyone who wants to consistently make profitable trades in the stock market. His advice has the "ring of truth" to those who are unafraid to go against the crowd.

This is the first Amazon Short I have bought. I found the substance and the format exceptional. The author describes how to go about creating characters for fiction writing. I found the advice and tips excellent. I wish there were more Amazon Shorts to choose from and hopefully Amazon will add to this product line.

The author in this book details the secrets of how to establish credit and explains the basics of fixing it . Highly recommended for those who have little or no credit experience and want to begin to establish credit lines. Foreigners who have just come to this country will find the information Extremely useful.

I just love this series, but this book is one of the best. Made me cry several times. After reading it, I sent it straight to my sister to read too :) Great book about the special bond that can only be shared by sisters.

"Daddy's Little Girl" is a collection of short, inspirational stories about daughters and their dads. It weaves its way through the complex father-daughter relationship with humor, insight, and poignant moments.

This book would make a fantastic gift not only for Father's Day, but anytime a daughter wants to let her dad know how special he is to her.

Veronica Vail, dynamic, tall & beautiful, with the perfect marriage, job & home is found beaten to death in her sitting room. Why is a huge, valuable portrait of the dead woman gone from the wall?

When Lt. John Franklin of the NYPD, calls Dr. Mary Wells for insights into her patient's lifestyle, this long time divorcee & psychoanalyst is drawn into a tragedy with secrets & echoes from the past. Dr. Wells is both fascinated to be invited to assist in the investigation, & remorseful that she hadn't seen, in all the years of Veronica's therapy, this possible outcome -- that her patient would be murdered.

THE DEADLY JIGSAW PUZZLE is a mystery with many layers as well as an unfolding love story. Dr. Bond, herself a New York psychoanalyst for more than 30 years, has written an elegant & satisfying story of the power that unresolved childhood trauma have on the present.

In this modern world of police dramas solved by angst-driven investigators with desolate private lives, themselves on the verge of disaster, THE DEADLY JIGSAW PUZZLE is a pleasing change. In her two heroes, Dr. Wells & Lt. Franklin, Dr. Bond has the makings of a fine series.

Recommended by Rebeccasreads as a thoughtful mystery.

This is my favorite James Bond novel. Ian Fleming created a character with a gargantuan appetite for the more worldly pleasures. For a land that could supply our hero with such an appetite Fleming chose his own beloved Jamaica. The melding of the story with the setting is Fleming at his best. Jamaica was a land of beauty, mystery and intrigue. Fleming captured this so well and gave us a remarkable villain to reflect that esoteric quality of the island. The colour cover of Ursula Andress is like a haunting dream.

I think Doctor No is a Great Book and anybody into James Bond will love it. If you love action and suspense you will love this book! This book is more for older children because of the language and violance. Still, that doesn't take the fun out of it!

I loved this book so much!I enjoyed reading it.I just can't believe it.I never could understand anything in a book before but when I read this book, I understood every single word.This book was great.

From Preface:
[1987]

"Professional managers, using duration concepts, manage investment funds worth billions of dollars in fixed income securities. Duration analysis has come of age. It represents a methodical approach to prudent investments in bonds and mortgages. Whether duration analysis appeals to all investment managers or not, it will likely continue into the 21st Century.

This book contains:
* a complete development of the fundamentals
* a detailed description of leading applications
* technical appendixes
* an up-to-date summary of published empirical research on duration analysis
* some caveats dealing with callability and credit risk
* some indications of the direction of future research

The book is intended to be a guide to the many-splendored wrinkles of duration analysis as well as an accessible exposition of the fundamentals and their applications.

Chapters include:

I - Duration and Changes in Valuation
1 - Income Streams, Discount Functions, Yield to Maturity
[Interest Rate as an Index Number; Interest Rate as Rate of Return; Constant Time Price for Money; The Yield to Maturity (Internal Rate of Return)]
2 - Bond and Mortgages
[Bonds: General Valuation, Par Bonds, Discount Bonds, Premium Bonds, Amortization, Value as a Function of Yield to Maturity]
3 - Duration and Changes in Prices and Yields to Maturity
[Yield to Maturity and Price Changes; Coupon Rate and Price Changes; Maturity and Price Changes; Percentage Price Changes and Duration]

II - Investment and Strategies, Duration, and Risk
4 - Investment Accumulation and Duration
[Duration of Portfolio, Duration Window, Planning Period, Dynamic Immunization Strategy]

5 - Measuring Risk and Return
[Expected Excess Returns and the Variance of Returns; The Optimal Duration Decision; Approximating the Efficient Frontier, The Fishburn Risk Measure]

III - Applications
6 - Contingent Immunization
[Potential Return, Trigger yield Contours, Risk and Returns]
7 - Funding Multiple Liabilities: Dedicated Portfolios
[Redington's Problem, Examples of Redington's Dispersion Condition]
8 - Duration and Operations in the Futures Markets
[Futures and Forward Contracts; Interest Rate Futures; Hedging and Duration]
9 - Depository and Other Financial Institutions: Duration Gap Management
[Net Worth and Interest Rate Risk; Capital/Asset Ratio and Interest Rate Risk, Net Economic Income and Interest Rate Risk; Net Return on Assets and Interest Rate Risk; Illustrations of the Impact of Interest Rate Changes;]

IV - Empirical Estimation and Simulations
10 - The Term Structure of Interest Rates
[Forward Rates, Examples of Forward Rate Computations; Yield Curves; Implications of Coupon Biases; Measuring the Term Structure]

11 - Duration and Stochastic Processes of the Term Structure
[Stochastic Process, Duration as Elasticity, Multi-variable Random Shifts]

12 - Empirical Research
[Immunization Studies; Regression Studies]

V - Non-Interest Rate Risk
13 - Some Caveats on Callability and Credit Risk
[Callable Bonds, Default Risk]