The Complete Practitioner's Guide to the Bond Market

1 What is a Bond
2 Bond Math... Without the Math
3 Non-Plain Vanilla Bonds
4 Inflation Protected Bonds
5 The Yield Curve

6 Carry, Rolls, Breakevens and Recovery
7 Bond Investment Management
8 Market Timing and Risk
9 Hedging: What It Is and What It's Not
10 Advanced Concepts: What Those Guys Are Talking About

11 Repos: Acquiring Leverage
12 What Bond Dealers Actually Do
13 Money Market Instruments
14 What the Heck is this Thing called LIBOR
15 What You Need to Know About How the Economy Works

16 Where the Fed Fits In
17 Fundamentals of Corporate Bonds
18 High Grade vs High Yield
19 Corporate Yields Spreads and Curves
20 True Role of Collateral

21 Crazy Bonds
22 Floating Rate Notes
23 Those Newfangled Floaters
24 Hedge Funds in the Fixed Income Market
25 Swaps: What They Are

26 Swaps: How They Are Used By Investors
27 The New World of Credit Derivatives
28 CDS, CDO and Other Alphabet Products
29 Forwards and Futures
30 Foreign Exchange and Foreign Bonds

31 Emerging Markets Securities
32 Convertibles
33 Mortgages and Mortgage Backed Bonds

Steven Dym is a president of a US investment management firm, Mariner Capital Partners. His articles have appeared in various publications including the Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, and Risk Magazine.