Professional Perspectives on
Fixed Income Portfolio Management, Volume 1
Frank J. Fabozzi
Copyright: 2000
In the turbulent marketplace
of the New Economy, portfolio managers must expertly control risk for investors who demand
better and better returns even from the safest investments. Finance and investing expert
Frank Fabozzi leads a team of experts in the discussion of the key issues of fixed income
portfolio management in the latest Perspectives title from his best-selling library.
Perspectives on Fixed Income Portfolio Management covers topics on the frontiers of fixed
income portfolio management with a focus on risk control, volatility framework for the
corporate market, risk management for fixed income asset management, and credit
derivatives in portfolio management. Other important topics include: attribution of
portfolio performance relative to an index; quantitative analysis of fixed income
portfolios; value-at-risk for fixed-income portfolios; methodological trade-offs. The book
also provides a variety of illustrations.
Table of Contents
Contributing Authors.
An Overview of Institutional
Fixed Income Investment Strategies (F. Jones).
Quantitative Analysis of
Fixed Income Portfolio Relative to Indices (L. Dynkin and J. Hyman).
Attribution of Portfolio
Performance Relative to an Index (L. Dynkin, et al.).
A Primer on Effective
Duration and Convexity (G. Buetow and R. Johnson).
Duration Uncertainty and MBS
Duration Management (W. Phoa, et al.).
A Volatility Framework for
the Corporate Market (S. Zamsky, et al.).
Credit Spread Risk and the
Theory of Extreme Events (W. Phoa).
The Truth about Swap Spreads
(R. Gordon).
Inefficiencies in Municipal
Bond Pricing (P. Kennedy).
Risk Management for Fixed
Income Asset Management (B. Gord).
Scenario Simulation Model for
Fixed Income Portfolio Risk Management (F. Jamshidian and Y. Zhu).
Improving Guidelines for
Futures and Other Derivatives (S. Kreider, et al.).
Controlling Interest Rate
Risk with Futures and Options (F. Fabozzi, et al.).
Credit Derivatives in
Portfolio Management (M. Anson).
Index Total Return Swaps and
Their Fixed Income Portfolio Management Applications (M. Rooney).
266 pages