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Title: Convertible Securities: The Latest Instruments, Portfolio Strategies, and Valuation Analysis, Revised Edition by John P. Calamos ISBN: 1-55738-921-7 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Content free
Comment: To even to most junior quant, this book would be content free. What's more, he promises the revolutionary new Calamos valuation method (now, not even Nobel prize winners name their theories after themselves, they let other people do it for them, so already, suspicion) but again, nothing, just some snapshots from the screen of his software. The book blurb is misleading, it actually promises the method, not just an advert for it. Do not buy this book, you will learn nothing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Converted to Convertibles
Comment: Upon reading this book I realized what I was missing from my portfolio. Investing in convertible over the past 3 years has enabled me to keep my head above water since the market peaked back in 2000. My portfolio was only down 4% in 2001 and 5% in 2002 because of the addition of converts.
Rating: 2
Summary: Author's Conflicted Intentions Evident
Comment: The table of contents and size of this book suggests a real winner, perhaps even a Graham & Dodd treatment of the convertibles arena. The wonder is how such a long-winded tome can leave the convertibles student so wanting. The book's problem is probably the author's conflicted intentions: "Do I want my readers to go out and find some nice convertible bonds, or do I want them to pay me to go find them some nice convertible bonds?" Guess who gets short shrift?
The introduction to convertibles section is reasonably well written. But the analysis and strategy sections of the book are suspiciously hazy. I say " suspiciously " because the book's author delivers just enough information so one might be comfortable handing over portfolio management to the author's investment management firm, but not nearly enough to implement a portfolio for oneself. Even Calamos' simple price model is insufficiently described.
Thus, after a windy, winding road of nearly 400 pages, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES reads as a mediocre introduction to convertibles imbedded within an advertisement for the Calamos firm (for which I had to pay $65!).
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Title: Convertible Arbitrage: Insights and Techniques for Successful Hedging by Nick P. Calamos ISBN: 0471423610 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Global Convertible Investing: The Gabelli Way by Hart Woodson, III, A. Hartswell Woodson ISBN: 0471209821 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Pricing Convertible Bonds by Kevin B. Connolly ISBN: 0471978728 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $115.00 |
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Title: Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management by Frank K. Reilly, Keith C. Brown ISBN: 0324171730 Publisher: South-Western College Pub Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $127.95 |
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Title: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN: 1587990717 Publisher: Texere Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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