Bond Pricing and Portfolio
Analysis
The book can be described as
a 'dream' toolbox for any bond portfolio analyst.
Milad Zarin, University of Neuchâtel
Bonds are mathematical
securities, and Olivier de La Grandville gives us the economics, the theory, the math, the
intuition, and the numerical examples in this wonderfully thorough book. Roger Ibbotson,
Yale School of Management
This comprehensive text makes
accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation of the past
twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic
fundamentals, de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic
tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, immunization, and interest rate
derivatives.
One of the book's most
valuable contributions is its detailed demonstration of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model of
interest term structure and its applications to bond portfolio duration and immunization.
Other innovative treatments include a discussion of the exact relationship between spot
and forward rates of return, formulas for the expected value and variance of the long-term
rate of return on bonds as functions of one-year estimates, the introduction of a new
concept of duration based on the directional derivative, and a geometrical interpretation
of a martingale probability construction.
Each chapter is followed by a
series of questions, problem sets, and projects. Detailed answers to all of them are
provided at the end of the book. Although the treatment is thorough and rigorous, the
exposition is intuitive throughout.
340 pages