Managing your bank’s investment portfolio is more than just finding good investments. You have to figure in economic and interest rate forecasts, regulatory requirements, and how your investment strategy works with the bank’s overall strategy and goals.

This 2-volume manual helps you use the best ideas, techniques, and methods to make your investment portfolio really pay off. It gives you practical advice and ideas from experts who have made it work in banks like yours. The 15 chapters in this easy-to-read manual cover it all, from the role your bank's board of director's should play to detailed descriptions of specific investment instruments. There are guidelines for organizing the investment function, step-by-step procedures for automating the investment function, a summary of the regulatory and accounting requirements you need to keep in mind, including the fair value rules, and proven policies and procedures for your investment portfolio activities. You get guidance on all this:

• How to use economic and interest rate forecasts
• Strategies for a rising interest rate environment
• Legal and regulatory requirements
• An easy-to-use reference summary of the instruments you bank can use, how each is traded, what the maturity is, the trading basis, and liquidity
• Organizing the investment function
• Developing an investment policy statement
• Money market instruments
• U.S. Treasury and federal agency securities
• Mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities
• Other capital market instruments
• Using futures, options, and swaps to improve investment performance
• Using economics in interest rate forecasts
• Major market participants’ influence on investment performance
• Developing and implementing an investment strategy
• Investment pitfalls
• Securities investments: legal and regulatory requirements
• Accounting for securities
• Automating the investment function
• Bank investment portfolio trends and analysis
• Peer group data analyzing investment portfolio trends at every U.S. bank.

You might also be interested in:

• Investment Guide Series
• Managing Bank Investment Portfolios
• Pratt's Investment Products Deskbook
• Self-Paced Bank Investment Training Manual

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