This textbook on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It includes detailed discussion of each type of bond including a wide range of products. The text features discussion of not only the instruments, but their investment characteristics, the state-of-the-art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them. The third edition offers coverage of various market sectors, including mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, technologies for valuing complex bond structures, actual bond portfolio management strategies and interest rate derivatives, as well as coverage on measuring and evaluating bond performance and valuation of options and swaps. The number of problems has increased by 50 percent in each chapter.