TY - BOOK AU - Grandville , Olivier de La . TI - Bond Pricing and Portfolio Analysis: Protecting Investors in the Long Run SN - 8120328884 U1 - 332.66 GRA PY - 2001/// CY - New Delhi PB - Prentice Hall KW - Financial Economics KW - Investment Bank KW - Investment KW - Bond Pricing KW - Derivatives KW - Immunization N1 - A First Visit to Interest Rates and Bonds.; An Arbitrage- Enforced Valuation of Bonds; The Various Concepts of Rates of Return on Bonds: Yield to Maturity and Horizon Rate of Return; Duration: Definition, Main Properties, and Uses; Duration at Work: The Relative Bias in the T-Bond Futures Conversion Factor; Immunization: A First Approach; Convexity: A First Approach.; The Importance of Convexity in Bond Management.; The Yield Curve and The Term Structure of Interest Rates.; Immunizing Bond Portfolios Against Parallel Moves of the Spot Rate Structure.; Continuous Spot and Forward Rates of Return, with Two Important Applications.; Estimating the Long-Term Expected Rate of Return Its Variance, and Its Probability Distribution; A General Immunization Theorem, and Applications ER -