Bonds

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Getting to the starting point

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   Pages 1-15

3. Bond basics

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   Pages 17-46

4. The UK gilt market

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   Pages 47-69

5. Investing in non-UK government bonds

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   Pages 71-86

6. Corporate bonds, Eurobonds and credit quality

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   Pages 87-110

7. Understanding and appreciating the yield curve

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   Pages 111-136

8. Dealing for the private investor

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   Pages 137-143

9. Back Matter

   Pages 145-166

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In this book leading expert Moorad Choudhry demystifies bonds once and for all. He explains the importance of bonds and why all private investors should include them as part of their investment strategy. Readers will gain insight into the advantages of holding bonds and why they should always form part of any savings portfolio.

• investment
• portfolio
• strategy

• KBC Financial Products, London, UK

  Moorad Choudhry

MOORAD CHOUDHRY is Head of Treasury at KBC Financial Products Limited, the investment banking arm of KBC Bank NV. His responsibilities cover asset-liability management for the group's activities worldwide, including money market funding, managing the asset-backed conduit programme and corporate bond repo trading. He was previously a vice-president in structured finance services with JPMorgan Chase Bank in London. Prior to that we worked as a gilt-edged market maker and treasury trader with ABN Amro Hoare Govett Sterling Bonds Limited, and as a sterling proprietary trader within the Treasury division at Hambros Bank Limited. He is also Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business, London Metropolitan University, UK. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Trading and Finance, CASS Business School, London.

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