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Handbook of Inflation Indexed Bonds provides complete coverage of inflation protection bonds beginning with their first U.S. issuance in 1997. Five, in-depth sections detail: strategic asset allocation; mechanics, valuation, and risk monitoring; global environment; issuers; and investors.
List of contents
Contributing Authors.
Foreword (W. Gross).
1. Introduction (J. Brynjolfsson and F. Fabozzi).
SECTION I: STRATEGIC ASSET ALLOCATION.
2. Musings About Real Asset Allocation (J. Brynjolfsson).
3. Shifting the Efficient Frontier with Inflation-Indexed Bonds (R. Dalio and D. Bernstein).
4. Using Inflation-Indexed Securities for Retirement Savings and Income: The TIAA-CREF Experience (P. Hammond).
5. Recognizing and Achieving Strategic Investment Goals (B. Moore).
6. Inflation Hedging in a Low-Inflation World: The Plan Sponsor's Rationale (L. Siegel).
7. Asset Allocation with TIPS (J. Brynjolfsson and E. Rennie).
SECTION II: MECHANICS, VALUATION, AND RISK MONITORING.
8. Quantitative Approaches to Inflation-Indexed Bonds (W. Phoa).
9. Valuing and Trading TIPS (G. Lucas and T. Quek).
10. Understanding the CPI (W. Kan).
11. Understanding the Inflation Risk Premium (P. Hammond, et al.)
SECTION III: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: PAST AND PRESENT.
12. The U.K. Experience (M. Deacon).
13. The Australian Experience (M. Chadwick).
14. The Canadian Experience (K. Basta and M. Klaponski).
15. The U.S. Experience (R. Anderson).
16. The French Experience (C. O'Hagan).
SECTION IV: ISSUERS.
17. Arguments for Issuing Linkers (W. Lloyd).
18. Corporate and Agency Inflation-Linked Securities (A. Rosen, et al.).
SECTION V: INVESTORS.
19. The Individual Investor and Inflation-Indexed Bonds: Tax Issues and Retirement Planning (C. Kinney).
20. Inflation Indexed Products for Stable Value Funds (D. LeRoux and V. Gallo).
21. Inflation Protection Bonds and Endowment or Foundation Investment Policy (W. Schneider).
22. Foundation Applications (A. Heuberger).
Index.
About the author
Frank J. Fabozzi is a financial consultant, the editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management, and Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University's School of Management.
John Brynjolfsson is the Vice President and Fixed Income Portfolio Manager of PIMCO.
