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The Gilt-edged Market by Moorad Choudhry,Graham  "Harry" Cross,Jim Harrison
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    • Product code: 16260
    • ISBN: 0750651636, ISBN13: 9780750651639, 288 pages, hardback
      Published by Butterworth-Heinemann on 2003 , 1st
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    Description of The Gilt-edged Market

    "The Gilt-Edged Market" is specifically aimed at finance professionals and investors who need to understand the inner working of the United Kingdom gilt market. There is detailed coverage of the different gilt instruments, as well as a look at the structures, institutions and practices of the market itself. Topics include: Bond basics; Conventional gilts; Index-linked gilts; Gilt strips; The gilt repo market; The gilt bond future basis; and Yield spread trading using gilts. There are also personal reminiscenes that illustrate the great changes that have occurred in this market since Big Bang, as well as an exposition on the art of trading. "The Gilt-Edged Market" is ideal reading for traders, salespersons, fund managers, private investors and other professionals involved to any extent in the UK gilt market. The latest research on index-linked gilts, gilt markets and sterling debt markets presented in an enthusiastic, readable style. It is written by gilt-edged market makers and dealers to ensure realistic, practical coverage as well as a clear explanation of the theory, so readers gain from years' experience. It includes Foreword by Mike Williams, CEO of the Debt Management Office.

    Contents of The Gilt-edged Market

    The gilt-edged market: an introduction
    A primer on bond basics

    The gilt-edged market I: structure and institutions
    The gilt-edged market II: index-linked gilts
    The Gilt-edged market III: the gilt strips market

    The gilt repo market

    The gilt bond basis
    The gilt bond basis II

    Information content of the gilt yield curve

    The art of government bond trading

    Approaches to yield spread trading using gilts

    Being some reminiscences of the gilt market...

    Glossary

    About Moorad Choudhry, Graham "Harry" Cross and Jim Harrison

    Moorad Choudhry is Head of Treasury at KBC Financial Products (UK) Limited in London. Previously he worked in structured finance at JPMorgan Chase Bank, and as a sterling bond trader at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Limited and Hambros Bank Limited. Dr Choudhry is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Trading and Finance, CASS Business School. He is also a Fellow of the Securities Institute.

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