Leveraged Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Loans, Bonds, and Other High-Yield Instruments (McGraw-Hill Financial Education Series)

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Public companies acquire most of their outside capital from debt fi nancing and, more specifi cally, leveraged finance–an asset class that falls somewhere between traditional fixed income and stocks. While this type ofdebt fi nancing carries significant risk to both investorsand companies, the potential returns make leveraged finance a cornerstone of the modern financial markets.

Leveraged Financial Markets is a gathering of the most astute and informed minds in the business.The powerhouse editorial team of William F. Maxwell and Mark R. Shenkman have handselected contributions from the top practitioners and thinkers working in leveraged finance today.

The result is an authoritative guidebook that providesyou with what you need to navigate the highyield market in the integrated global economy. Packed with a wealth of analytical models illustrating the realities of distress probabilities and losses in default, Leveraged Financial Markets gives you all the insight and strategies you need to:

Use the Sharpe ratio to measure the return versus risk for high-yield debtDevelop and oversee a portfolio of high-yield bondsValue individual high-yield issuances

It also updates you on changes in the high-yield bond market and features in-depth coverage of numerous debt vehicles leveraged in the market today, including collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), credit derivative swaps (CDSs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), andleveraged loans.

Leveraged Financial Markets is your blueprint tobecoming a virtuoso of this resilient and popular asset class.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (June 22, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071746684
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071746687
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.17 x 9 inches