Customer Review: Today the phrase "securities fraud" evokes Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. Two decades ago, it evoked Drexel Burnham Lambert, the investment bank that ruled the junk-bond realm and helped fund some of the most audacious corporate takeovers of the 1980s. Enthroned at the center of Drexel Burnham was the... more info
Customer Review: A great introduction to bonds and there place in a portfolio. The perfect place for the individual to start if they are considering purchasing individual bonds for their portfolio. However, anyone looking for more in-depth information and strategies will likely be disappointed. Relatively... more info
Customer Review: This is a comprehensive book on bond insurance and hits all the hot topics for the municipal bond investor. Well worth the price. There is no other book like this.
Customer Review: There are no new ideas in this book. It is being hyped to death on the Bloomberg website, billed as some alternative investment strategy. But although it does a decent job of superfically covering the various types of basic bond investments, its only surprising feature is that the authors ignore the... more info
Customer Review: I am a big fan of Larry Swedroe's books, and his postings on the Diehards dot Org website (Amazon does not allow links or web site addresses in these reviews). I used this book to contrast and compare Larry's asset class recommendations to Rick Ferri, and great author of many books. I was... more info
Customer Review: The book provides a very complete overview the residential mortgage-backed securities market and is written by two gentlemen that were arguably at "the center of the storm" at Countrywide Securities. The book is structured nicely taking the reader from a general overview of the MBS market to a... more info
Customer Review: After a few years in waiting, I am glad to see that the Bond Market Association has released the 5th addition of The Fundamentals of Municiple Bonds. The author of this book did a great job capturing the signifigance of the municiple bond, and exaplining it clearly with graphs and charts. I highly... more info
Customer Review: 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... more info
Customer Review: Reading this book was so boring it was like... Well it was like reading a book on strategic bond investing. That being said it had a wealth of information. The price I got it for used was well worth the Fed speak chapter, and the detailed explanation of the various monthly economic data (employment,... more info
Customer Review: Very good book on bonds - easy to understand but packed full of information. Would highly recommend this book for someone looking at investing in bonds
