First Steps in Bonds: Successful Strategies Without Rocket Science

by Peter Temple

Bonds are IOUs issued by governments and companies and traded in a market like shares. They can offer a good regular return with less risk than shares. You get a predictable flow of interest payments once or twice a year and your investment back in full when the bond matures.

207 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2001

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Peter Temple has been involved in the City and its Financial Markets for nearly thirty-five years as a Fund Manager, an Investment Analyst and, for the last 17 years, as a Freelance Financial Journalist. He is a regular contributor to a number of publications including the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle, and Interactive Investor, and has written more than a dozen investment books. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute. He and his wife, who works as his researcher, live and work in a converted water mill in the English Lake District.

Reviews

[John Bullock · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good for students, beginners in the financial capital markets and people looking to invest on a personal level.