TY - BOOK AU - La Grandville,Olivier de TI - Bond pricing and portfolio analysis: protecting investors in the long run SN - 8120328884 U1 - 332.6323 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Prentice-Hall of India KW - Interest rates KW - Investment analysis KW - Portfolio management N1 - This book avails the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, it presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization. A special feature of the book is a general immunization theorem that can be used by practitioners to protect investors against any change in the structure of spot interest rates. Also of note is the detailed presentation of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model and a discussion of its relationships with classical immunization schemes ER -