Learn how to select the correct bond, the correct quality, and the correct maturity at a competitive yield and reasonable cost and how to create, manage, modify, and maintain, and process structurally sound and competitive bond portfolios.

Before retiring — as first a stockbroker and then an investment advisor — I created (1983) and used my constantly modified and upgraded Bond Selection and Management Disciplines, Rules, and Procedures (now eBook) to help my clients understand what I was doing and why with regard to selecting bonds and managing bond portfolios.

Through all the years, in good bond markets and in bad, not once did my clients get into trouble and we almost always maximized bond management performance; protecting and building capital, maintaing competitive yields.

The origins of the development of my bond selection and management skills started with my learning and applying the bond basics and the bond selection and management principles as mentioned in the Preface and as detailed in the 1473 pages of the "Handbook of Fixed Income Securities," by Peter L. Bernstein.

If you would like to understand bonds — from bond basics to bond selection and management — what, when, why, how, and what if — while 'keeping it simple' and effective, this eBook (about 75 pages in length; tweaked and updated on occasion) will lead the way.

Bond Investment Selection & Management

The Goal

Bonds: The Ideal Investment

Bonds: Where & What To Look For

Bonds: A Contract

Yield To Maturity

The Key To Understanding Bond Pricing And Bond Price Changes

Bond Price Volatility And Principal Fluctuations

The Bond Investment Dilemma

Bond Price Volatility As Interest Rates Change

Bond Price Volatility

Duration

Bond Price Volatility Par, Discount, Premium

Basic Pricing Situations

Bonds: The Complete Interest Rate Cycle

Bonds: Maturity

Bonds: The Yield Curve & Managing The Yield Curve

Basic Yield Curve Configurations

What To Do And Why

Interest Rates

Bond Types

Bonds: Accrued Interest

Bonds: Taxable Or Non-Taxable

Bond Quality

Bonds: Summarized

Bond Selection & Portfolio Management

Bonds: Historical Performance

Bonds: A Story

Bonds: Making Portfolio Changes

Bonds: The Mission Statement

The Acid Test

Bonds: The Minimum Goal

Bonds: The Start

Bonds: Market Imbalances

Bonds: Market Knowledge

Enhancements

The Master Strategy

Optimum Solutions

Strategic Changes

The Correct Bonds

Bond Quality

Moody's and Standard & Poor's

Building a Bond Portfolio

The Correct Bond

The Correct Bond Maturity

Building Your Bond World

Your (initial) Bond World

Laddering

The Yield Curve

The Cost of Living

Price Fluctuation

Your Bond World

2011 Bond Ladder Qualifier

Competitive Yield

Reasonable Cost

The Moment Of Truth

The Rules Of The Game

'Buy Hold, & Forget'

'Managing The Yield Curve'

Bond Mutual Fund Evaluation

Bond Fund Faults

Bond Mutual Fund Analysis.