Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Discount Rates and Returns; Estimating Returns; Geometric and Arithmetic Averages; Caveats to Return Extrapolation; Discounting Present Values of Cash Flow Streams; Internal Rate of Return and Yield to Maturity; Real and Nominal Returns; Summary; Chapter 2: Fixed Income Securities; Coupon-Bearing Bonds; Infinite Cash Flow Streams (Perpetuities); General Pricing Formulas for Finite Cash Flow Streams; Interest Rate Risk; Analysis of Duration; Interest Rate Risk Dynamics; Immunization and Duration