Income investing today : safety and high income through diversification /
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=194135 |
Table of Contents:
- The why and how of fixed income
- Why consider fixed income
- Growth versus income (stocks versus bonds)
- What kind of investor are you?
- Investment strategies
- Asset allocation
- The right allocation for you
- Diversification
- Retirement planning
- What's exciting about 6 percent returns?
- What you need to know about risk and uncertainty
- Subjective risks
- Objective risks
- Uncertainty
- Understanding interest rates : general features
- Compound interest
- When interest rates rise
- Comparative yields explained
- What to pay : fair value pricing
- When to sell
- Using leverage and margin
- Credit ratings
- Below-investment -grade ratings
- How to read the ratings
- Credit ratings drift : an ongoing problem
- The Federal Reserve Bank
- Security dealers and brokers
- Information sources and how to use them
- Investment advice via the media
- Prospectuses
- Misuse of the English language
- Getting railroaded by China
- When to worry about the accounting
- Financial statements
- Balance sheet
- Income statement
- Statement of cash flow
- Shareholders' equity statement
- Defining earnings
- More important than the numbers
- Summary
- Bonds
- Basic features
- U.S. treasuries
- Corporate bonds
- Equipment trust certificates
- Direct access notes
- Junk bonds
- Step-up and pay-in-kind bonds
- Zero-coupon bonds
- Put bonds
- Insured municipal bonds
- Lower rated muni bonds
- Conduit bonds
- Taxable munis
- Unrated munis
- Buying municipal bonds
- Municipal bond defaults
- Miscellaneous topics
- The bond indenture and trustee
- Call provisions
- Put provisions
- Money market accounts and funds
- Certificates of deposit
- Duration
- Questions to ask when buying a corporate bond
- Questions to ask when buying a muni
- Preferreds and hybrids
- General features
- Hybrids : bonds/indirect bonds
- Preferred equity traded (PET) bonds
- Trust preferreds
- Third-party trust preferreds
- Foreign preferreds
- Partnerships
- Perpetual preferred stock
- Buying preferreds
- Convertibles and adjustable-rate debt
- Convertible bonds
- Convertible preferreds
- Adjustable-rate debt
- Income stocks
- Overview
- Canadian energy and royalty trusts
- Other Canadian trusts
- Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Other common stocks
- Mutual funds
- Overview
- Bond funds
- Junk bond funds
- Municipal bond funds
- International bond funds
- Exchange-traded funds (ETF)
- Closed-end funds (CEFs)
- Closed-end bond funds
- Closed-end preferred funds
- Buy-write funds
- Securities and other investments to avoid
- Unit investment trusts (UIT)
- Derivatives
- SEQUINS and ELKS
- PARRS
- Hedge funds
- Commercial paper, bankers acceptances, and repos
- Collateralized debt
- Other topics of interest
- Bankruptcy
- Endgame strategies
- Tax strategies
- Dividend strategies
- Taxation and mandatory convertible preferreds
- Tax reporting
- Original issue discount
- Summing up
- A long-term strategy for income investing
- Appendix : Internet investment information sources
- Glossary.