About this product: A timely guide to today’s high-yield corporate debt markets Leveraged Finance is a comprehensive guide to the instruments and markets that finance much of corporate America. Presented in five sections, this experienced author team covers topics ranging from the basics of bonds and loans to more advanced topics such as valuing CDs, default correlations among CLOs, and hedging strategies across corporate capital structures. Additional topics covered include basic corporate credit, relative value analysis, and various trading strategies used by investors, such as hedging credit risk with the equity derivatives of a different company. Stephen Antczak, Douglas Lucas, and Frank Fabozzi present readers with real-market examples of how investors can identify investment opportunities and how to express their views on the market or specific companies through trading strategies, and examine various underlying assets including loans, corporate bonds, and much more. They also offer readers an overview of synthetic and structured products such as CDS, LCDS, CDX, LCDX, and CLOs. Leveraged Finance has the information you need to succeed in this evolving financial arena.
About this product: Today, 40 percent of the nearly $300 billion of new-issue bonds sell with an insurance policy which gives them a Triple-A rating from all major rating agencies. Yet, "natural" Triple-A bonds--those that don't carry this added protection--are valued higher in the marketplace. Godfrey investigates this anomaly and proves to investors that insured Triple-A bonds are actually the best buy.
About this product: HIGH-YIELD BONDS provides state-of-the-art research, strategies, and toolsNalongside the expert analysis of respected authorities including Edward Altman of New York UniversityOs Salomon Center, Lea Carty of MoodyOs Investor Service, Sam DeRosa-Farag of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Martin Fridson of Merrill Lynch & Company, Stuart Gilson of Harvard University, Robert Kricheff of CS First Boston, and Frank Reilly of the University of Notre DameNto help you truly understand todayOs high-yield market. For added value and ease of reference, this high-level one-volume encyclopedia is divided into seven sections detailing virtually every aspect of high-yield bond investment. They include: Market structureNThe role of investment banks in security innovation and market development, evolution of analytical methodologies, and recent leveraged loan market developments; Security risk analysisNHistorical bond default rates, real interest rate and default rate relationships, and new simulation methodologies for modeling credit quality; Security valuationNImpact of seniority and security on bond pricing and return, important trading factors, and a Monte Carlo simulation methodology for valuing bonds and options in the context of correlated interest rate and credit risk; Market valuation modelsNEconometric studies which detail the importance of monetary influences, risk-free interest rates, default rates, mutual fund flows, and seasonal fluctuations; Portfolio managementNHistorical perspective and comparison to alternative investments, analysis of indices available to investors, and specific portfolio selection and risk management strategies of professional fund managers; Distressed security investingNHistorical risk and return information, plus an academic overview of the market and decision criteria for uncovering and investing in securities with higher-than-average risk-adjusted returns; Corporate finance considerationsNEmerging firmsO strategic choice between external debt and equity financing, as well as the choice of issuing public versus private (Rule-144a) securities. HIGH-YIELD BONDS provides extensive coverage of bond valuation and the construction and management of high-yield portfolios. Advanced Monte Carlo simulation models for the valuation of bonds and options on bonds as well as risk assessments on portfolios of bonds under conditions of correlated interest rate and credit risk are demonstrated. In todayOs explosive environment of multiple new issues and high risk versus return relationships, it is paramount that you get advice from analysts and experts who have been influential in shaping and defining the market. HIGH-YIELD BONDS will provide you with a valuable reference to this fascinating and constantly changing class of securities, helping you assemble a stable, diversified portfolio of fixed income investments that provides the greatest returns and the lowest risks.
About this product: The potential rewards and risks associated with investing in high-yield bonds are substantial. This proceedings explores the complex issues facing investment managers who have an interest in this bond market, including the default experience of the industry and the differences between the analysis of high-yield and investment-grade bonds.
About this product: A book on high yield, written by bond market professionals, is exactly what issuers have been waiting for. The elaborations on structures and covenant packages are crystal clear and help to navigate through the intricacies of the product.
Arsjad Rasjid President Director Indika Inti Energi
This book provides a valuable overview of the market. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the buy-side for Asian high yield and a detailed guide to structuring and executing transactions. We recommend it to any potential issuer.
Charles Chu CFO Agile Property Holdings Ltd.
This guide to the market provides a clear overview of high yield as a non-dilutive form of long term capital and serves as a useful reference material to all Asian growth enterprises. It is an easy to read and comprehensive reference work that will be of practical benefit to market users.
Roland To Director - Strategic Planning Galaxy Entertainment Group
We believe, as a firm, that out of contagion and chaos come opportunities. As the financial markets regain their footing after the subprime-induced credit crisis, we believe investors will find exciting opportunities in non-investment grade credit among other asset classes. A Guide to Asian High Yield Bonds will help investors get a handle on the high yield sector in Asia, which we are confident will hold great potential for investors going forward.
Brian Baker Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO)
A timely and well-researched addition to the finance literature. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Asian high yield bond market.
Professor Moorad Choudhry Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University
The Asian high yield market has grown at a rapid pace in the past few years. A new reference book to track the developments is a useful and timely addition for all market participants.
Geoffrey King Director PMA Investment Advisors Ltd.
Given the relative newness of the Asian high yield market and inexperience of most regional investors and issuers with high yield credit instruments, a reference book on the market should prove invaluable for illuminating the attractiveness and merits of the asset class.
Eugene Kim Chief Investment Officer Tribridge Investment Partners Ltd., Hong Kong
About this product: Junk bonds burst into the nation's headlines as the fastest growing and most controversial financial instruments of the 1980s. Branded with an unflattering nickname, these high yield securities were tarnished in the public eye by waves of negative publicity. Critics cast the financiers and entrepreneurs who pioneered their use as symbols of a decade of greed and financial excess. By the end of the 1980s, the heyday of junk bonds had seemingly come to a close with the conviction of junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and the bankruptcy of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the brokrage that dominated the high yield market. But the controversy surrounding junk bonds continues.
Now, in Junk Bonds, business professor Glenn Yago turns the tables on conventional wisdom about this new financial technology. He offers the first systematic examination of the facts about high yield securities. His analysis provides hard evidence that demystifies junk bonds and explodes many of the popular myths that surround them.
Junk Bonds sheds light on the role of high yield financing in what Yago calls the democratization of capital. Before the advent of junk bonds, only companies with an "investment grade" rating--five percent of the 23,000 American companies with sales over $35 million--had access to long term capital. In effect, the author argues, 95 percent of American companies were denied the means to finance growth and business development. Yago shows how junk bonds changed all that, breathing life into thousands of American companies that had been shunned by the capital markets. His research demonstrates that these "junk" companies outperformed many Fortune 500 firms in job creation, product development, sales, and business innovation.
The real contribution of junk bonds, according to Yago, was to improve the productivity and competitiveness of American business by restructuring companies in the wake of the corporate conglomerations of the 1960s and 1970s. His findings show that divestitures by companies financed with high yield bonds were not necessarily destructive. Many sold-off units flourished as independent enterprises at a time when numerous "investment grade" companies stagnated or closed plants or fired workers. This restructuring of corporate America has enabled businesses to compete in a changing international environment, benefiting managers, workers, stockholders, and investors alike.
Junk Bonds provides readers with a scholarly analysis that shears away the hype and hysteria that often accompany rapid change. And at a time when Wall Street is under greater scrutiny than at any time since the Depression, this provocative study provides a timely and thoughtful contribution to the debate surrounding junk bonds.
About this product: * Uniquely comprehensive and analytical Macaulay's work still represents an unrivalled collection of raw data and correlations of bond yields, interest rates and stock prices in the period 1856 - 1936.
* Compelling commentary on issues such as leads and lags and empirical forecasting -
* Macaulay's book was published in 1938 as part of this project to examine the behaviour of US bond yields, interest rates, stock prices, commodity prices, bank clearings and production and how they are inter-related.
About this product: This new perspective recalling the ten years after the explosion of financial myths in the 1980's offers a unique opportunity to update and continue the arguments that were presented in Glen Yago's 1991 book, Junk Bonds: How High Yield Securities Restructured Corporate America. Beyond Junk Bonds provides a comprehensive presentation of the firms and securities represented in the high yield market. In addition, there are examples of the firms and institutions who are benefitting from the "new cycle", both in the US and abroad.
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