Insider's Guide to Fixed Income Securities and Markets is designed to provide readers with a comprehensive, yet reasonably concise, resource that investigates all major types of fixed income securities and the markets in which they are traded. Though written with the intention that the entirety of the text should be accessible to students or professionals from other industries with no previous financial background, the subject matter is approached from the perspective of professionals working in a fixed income trading or asset management environment. Which is not to imply the book is a “How to” manual for any particular fixed income-related professional activity. Rather, it is a compendium of a large amount of information, the command over some portion of which should likely be part of the core competency of most professionals employed in the fixed income or related businesses.
However, the book is hopefully much more than just a repository of information. As much as possible, the information is related as a story, how the bond business works today as described by someone surveying the business from the inside. At the level of the book as a whole, the story progresses from an overview of markets and instruments to an introduction to the common features shared by most fixed income instruments before finally investigating all major fixed income market segments individually in detail.
--From the Author's Preface
However, the book is hopefully much more than just a repository of information. As much as possible, the information is related as a story, how the bond business works today as described by someone surveying the business from the inside. At the level of the book as a whole, the story progresses from an overview of markets and instruments to an introduction to the common features shared by most fixed income instruments before finally investigating all major fixed income market segments individually in detail.
--From the Author's Preface