A hands-on enhanced ebook visual guide to understanding and investing in an important and consistently safe investment vehicle, complete with test-yourself quizzes and video tutorials.
Bloomberg Financial Series Visual Guide to Municipal Bonds Enhanced Edition offers step-by-step guidance to the nature and diversity of municipal securities credit structures. This valuable guide demonstrates the dependability of the overwhelming majority of municipal securities, and points out particular market sectors that may yield greater rewards, but also present greater risks.
As an enhanced eBook, Bloomberg Financial Series Visual Guide to Municipal Bonds features a slew of exciting additional features designed to provide a more immersive learning experience.
This enhanced ebook also directs readers to good sources of up-to-date information as well as new market tools, byproducts of recent market enhancements, so as to assist you in making informed investment decisions.
Filled with reliable and highly accessible information needed for making sound decisions when investing in municipal securities author Robert Doty is a noted expert on municipal securities.
Wiley enhanced eBook features to test yourself on key concepts, gain a deeper understanding through detailed and captioned color graphics, and learn hands-on through video tutorials
A valuable addition to the new Bloomberg Financial Series Visual Guides, engaging and informative, this reliable resource is an easy-to-use "how to" guide to municipal securities that will help you create more effective investment strategies.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix Preface xi
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Basic Information Resources 27
Chapter 3: General Obligation Securities 43
Chapter 4: General Fund and Other Municipal Securities 51
Chapter 5: Revenue Securities 71
Chapter 6: Greater Rewards and Greater Risks 79
Chapter 7: Considerations When Buying 91
Chapter 8: Municipal Securities Pricing and Trading 109
Chapter 9: Tax Exemption of Municipal Securities 121
Chapter 10: Understanding Expert Work Products 131
Chapter 11: Municipal Securities Regulation 139
Chapter 12: Investor Questions and Answers (Q&As) 147
Appendix A: Additional Resources for You 171
Appendix B: Bloomberg Functionality Cheat Sheet 179
About the Author 181
Index 183
About the Author :
Robert Doty is President of AGFS, a private consulting company in Sacramento, California. He has held various important positions throughout his extensive career, including General Counsel to the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA); member of the Board of Governors of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Federation's Disclosure Committee; Chair of the Section on Economic Development, Taxation, and Finance of the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA); Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Public Finance Advisors; and officer of committees and subcommittees of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and of the American Bar Association's Section of State and Local Government Law and Section of Business Law. Doty is a recipient of several awards, including the NFMA's Municipal Industry Contribution Award. He has participated in principal drafting roles for national and regional municipal disclosure and securities law guidance publications. Doty is the author of half a dozen books and over eighty articles on finance. His website is agfs.com.
