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Inside the Yield Book: The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis [Hardcover]

Sidney Homer (Author), Martin L. Leibowitz (Author)
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May 1, 2004
First published in 1972, Inside the Yield Book revolutionized the fixed-income industry and forever altered the way investors looked at bonds. More than thirty years later, it remains a standard primer and reference among market professionals. Generations of practitioners, investors, and students have relied on its lucid explanations, and readers needing to delve more deeply have found its explication of key mathematical relationships to be unmatched in clarity and ease of application.

This edition updates the widely respected classic with new material by Martin L. Leibowitz that develops a horizon-based approach to present value and shows how these concepts can be generalized beyond bonds to become useful in the analysis of virtually any investment opportunity, including equities. Also included is a new foreword by Henry Kaufman, former vice chairman of Salomon Brothers.

Inside the Yield Book explains and makes sense of essential mathematical relationships that are basic to an understanding of bonds, annuities, loans--in fact, any securities or investments that involve compound interest and the determination of present value for future cash flows.

In an era of calculators and computers, some of these important underlying principles are not always grasped thoroughly by market participants. Investors, traders, and analysts who want to sharpen their ability to recall and apply these fundamentals will find this book the perfect concise resource. This authoritative work, now significantly expanded, is more instructive, important, and useful than ever for mastering crucial concepts of time, value, and return, and for better comprehending their role within the world of investments, in particular, and finance, in general.


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"The clarity and elegance of language and thought is startling. The new material will not disappoint." -- Jack R. Meyer, President and CEO, Harvard Management Company

"The complete classic...and completely new sections that show how relevant and essential its wisdom remains today." -- Lewis S. Ranieri, Chairman, Hyperion Partners

"The essential work for understanding what the entire investment process is all about." -- Peter L. Bernstein, Author of Against the Gods

"The investment world is indebted anew to Sidney Homer and Martin Leibowitz." -- Frank J. Fabozzi, Ph.D., CFA

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"For active fixed-income investors, this book has always been the holy writ, where it all began. . . . Inside the Yield Book is the essential work for understanding what the entire investment process is all about."
—Peter L. Bernstein
Author of Against the Gods and Capital Ideas

"It's pure pleasure to revisit this innovative and authoritative bedrock of modern bond analysis . . . the description of Wall Street's original 'rocket scientist' encountering Salomon Brothers' trading floor is worth the price of admission."
—John Lipsky
Chief Economist, JPMorgan Chase

"This book transformed the markets' understanding of bonds. The new material in this expanded edition extends those insights to equities and other investments--and the investment world is indebted anew to Sidney Homer and Martin Leibowitz."
—Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA
Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management
Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University's School of Management

"Inside the Yield Book may not be where it all began, but it certainly is where it all began to be understood. The clarity and elegance of language and thought is startling. The new material will not disappoint. This book will live forever!"
—Jack R. Meyer
President and CEO, Harvard Management Company

"Every participant in the fixed-income market needs to read and then reread this authoritative work."
—Laurence Fink
Chairman and CEO, BlackRock

"The new edition gives us the best of both worlds: the complete classic that helped launch a golden age for fixed-income investing, and completely new sections that show how relevant and essential its wisdom remains today."
—Lewis S. Ranieri
Chairman, Hyperion Partners


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 220 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomberg Press (May 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1576601595
  • ISBN-13: 978-1576601594
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful!, July 28, 2004
This review is from: Inside the Yield Book: The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis (Hardcover)
Sidney Homer and Martin L. Leibowitz, the authors of this slim volume, accomplish a tough feat. They utter a piece of rudimentary financial advice in one sentence and then launch into mind-bending explanations of the calculus that makes the rudiments true. Maybe that's why their 1972 classic has been in print for three decades. This updated version of the classic includes new forewords and some material that was cut from the original. Unless you're an experienced bond trader or a finance whiz, this primer isn't exactly easy reading. The authors waste little time on hand-holding. Still, it remains a complete look at its topic after all these years. We suggest this book to investors and traders who need a crash course - or a refresher course - in bond analysis.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth It - The Original, January 31, 2007
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This review is from: Inside the Yield Book: The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis (Hardcover)
Yes, a lot of the concepts discussed here can be found in textbooks -- because this book originated those concepts. It remains the most concentrated discussion of bond analytics and trading available. It is a must for anyone contemplating entering the bond market as a professional, or working with bond professionals, or writing about them, or anything else. It is not for beginners -- or rather, it is work for beginners -- but it's in the professional language of fixed income. A head trader once told me this is the one book to read to understand bonds. There are many other worthy books, of course, but this is the one to start with, and it equips you to understand the others.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Old book, August 23, 2005
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This book is quite old and deals with topics that can be found in lots of corporate finance books such as pv and fv. You can't see the contents of the book either. If you have or know of the Fabozzi book then get that instead. T
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The Yield Book can appropriately be called the playing field of the game of bond investment. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
realized compound yield, yield pickup swap, various reinvestment rates, scientific amortization, percentage yield change, coupon discount bonds, assumed reinvestment rate, coupon flow, future reinvestment rates, book value today, coupon stream, yield book, total future value, basis point advantage, semiannual periods, compound interest tables, workout period, purchase yield, high coupon bonds, bond price volatility, coupon income, low coupon bonds, last payment date, next coupon date, maturity lengthens
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Future Value, Present Value, Yield Book, Accrued Interest, Principal Value, Substitution Swap, Pure Yield Pickup Swap, Abbreviated Sample, The Intermarket Spread Swap, Original Investment Per Bond, Yields Decline, Bond Called, End of Year, Periods With Each, Rate Anticipation Swaps, Bonds All Priced, Bonds Priced, Future Periodically, Semiannual Book Yield, Two Coupons During Year, Value of Swap
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