Financial Market Rates and Flows - Softcover

Van Horne, James C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133591913 ISBN 13: 9780133591910

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1993

Synopsis

This book covers interest rates and financial risk management while providing a conceptual basis from which to understand interest rates, interest-rate differentials, financial market equilibration, risk, and risk shifting.Emphasizing financial risk management, this book reflects the latest developments. It considers the volatility of bond prices with respect to coupon rate and maturity, and convexity while offering an extensive exploration into currency risk as it affects a foreign bond portfolio. It also explores the arbitrage equilibration between financial markets and likely changes that accompany change in the institutional environment. The fifth edition of Financial Market Rates and FlowsD has been revised to include a new chapter on prices and yields for bonds and money market instruments and one on mortgage securities and prepayment risk. Its overall presentation has been revised to reflect the latest shifts in the financial markets. In addition, the presentation of flow of funds has been updated and streamlined for easier comprehension and the discussion on modeling the term structure of interest rates as well as duration and convexity has been updated.

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From the Back Cover

Financial Market Rates and Flows, Sixth Edition, provides conceptual basis from which to understand interest rates, how they behave with changing market conditions, and how risk can be managed. This highly respected text can be used for courses in undergraduate investments, graduate investments, financial markets and institutions, fixed income securities, bond markets, and money and banking.

New Features to the Sixth Edition Include:

• New section on liquidity presents students with information on the treatment of credit ratings, default losses and migration patterns, quality yield spreads over time, high-yield debt, and yield spreads with respect to maturity.
• Updated data on the flow of funds (chapter 2) offers students new information regarding the total debt outstanding for various major sectors of the economy.
• Enhanced coverage on inflation and returns introduces students to a section on inflation-indexed bonds and Treasury TIPS.
• Improved chapter on the term structure of interest rates (chapter 6) familiarizes students with modeling the term structure as well as with relevant empirical work.
• Detailed treatment of bond portfolio management illustrates for students the arbitrage efficiency between zero-coupon and coupon bonds with an actual situation.
• Expanded chapter on derivative securities enables students to explore a very important market that is continually developing.
• Rewritten chapter on mortgage securities that covers mortgage derivatives, modeling prepayments, and "TBA" pricing that reflects important changes in mortgage-backed securities.
• Reorganized treatment of municipal bonds helps explain the nature of the market and the valuation of municipals in relation to taxable bonds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133591913
• ISBN 13: 9780133591910
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 338