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(More customer reviews)Once the individual investor begins to grasp the complexity of convertible bonds, it beats me as to why he or she would not be inclined to give up the entire enterprise altogether. And this book is so chock full of a convertible maven's essential vitamins and minerals that, after the first reading at least, this investment arena will seem utterly Pyrrhic to a neophyte. Sadly, the book is dense enough that a newcomer is likely to miss its nimble, understated handling of a maddeningly complex topic. It is only after perusing the other available literature on convertibles that Kevin Connolly's competent, intelligent handling dawns on you. Then you see this text as a high-end stereo system amongst crude boom boxes!
Although Connolly writes under the pretext the reader knows next to nothing about the convertible, or even senior debt and common equity instruments, the book may not be the optimal starting point to understand convertibles. For the American reader, there is also the matter that the examples are in pounds sterling, and not in dollars.
But the text provides a terrific point-of-entry for the investor who is left wanting by crude convertible pricing models which fail to adequately account for subtler, but critical, details such as embedded long-put options, refix clauses, and what one ought to do with probability issues. The implicit theme of the book is "every convertible is a different animal...accept it and get nimble enough to competently deal with the instrument's intricacies." The reader is well served --with the theme, the non-condescending explanation, and the tools Connolly offers to deal competently and confidently with convertible complexities.
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The Convertible Bonds (CB) market is growing all the time. To date, over one trillion dollars worth of CBs are in circulation. Corporations are finding this source of fund-raising more and more attractive. And for different reasons, the buyers are finding CBs increasingly attractive investment vehicles.There are few works on the subject of pricing convertible bonds. Most books discussing derivative products cover all details of pricing futures and options in minute detail. Convertible bonds and warrants are usually mentioned as an after thought in the latter chapters. This is the first book to address the very complex issue of pricing convertible bonds.Kevin Connolly, Researcher of complex volatility trading for Refco Overseas Ltd. and Lecturer at City University Business School and London Guildhall University, has put together an excellent treatment of pricing convertible bonds, delving into topics such as: * Returns distributions and associated descriptive statistics* Modeling the share price process* The basic convertible bond model* Introducing the complications* Convertible bond sensitivities* Using equity warrant models to price CBs* Refix clausesFund managers, hedge players/traders, undergraduates and postgraduates will find this book invaluable. Easy to understand software on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is also supplied.
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