Investing in junk bonds : inside the high yield debt market
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Investing in junk bonds : inside the high yield debt market
（Wiley professional banking and finance series）
Wiley, c1987
Available at 19 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 247-250
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning, new high- yield debt or "junk bond" market. Edward Altman and Scott Nammacher, leading experts on debt financing and co-developers of the ZetaTM model for predicting business failure, offer sophisticated investors a complete analysis of the high-yield bond market, its anatomy, history, participants, risks and returns. With Altman and Nammacher's ZetaTM model, investors can gauge the safety of an issue before they commit. This book helps private investors and mutual fund, pension, bank, and insurance money managers make sure their junk bonds don't live up to the name.
Table of Contents
- Introducing the High Yield Debt Market
- The Anatomy of the High Yield Debt Market
- New Issues, Characteristics and Underwritings
- Investor Attractions: Mutual Fund and Other Investor Activities
- Default Rates on High Yield Debt
- Assessing Credit Quality and Default Risks
- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Recent Experience and Leverage Issues
- Portfolio Strategies in the High Yield Debt Market
- Testing of Investment Strategies
- Appendixes
- Data Base Characteristics and Calculations
- Contribution of Total Return From Coupon (C) and Price Changes (P)
- Duration and Zero Coupon Bond Equivalency.
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