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    Gilt-Edged Market
    Gilt-Edged Market
    Gilt-Edged Market
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    Gilt-Edged Market

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

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    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* Yield spread trading using giltsThere 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* 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* Foreword written by Mike Williams, CEO of the Debt Management Office
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateMay 1, 2003
    ISBN9780080472867
    Gilt-Edged Market
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    Moorad Choudhry

    Moorad Choudhry is Chief Executive Officer, Habib Bank Zurich PLC in London, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University. Previously he was Head of Treasury of the Corporate Banking Division, Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to joining RBS, he was a bond trader and structured finance repo trader at KBC Financial Products, ABN Amro Hoare Govett Limited and Hambros Bank Limited. He has a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London and an MBA from Henley Business School. Moorad lives in Surrey, England.

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