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Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors

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Recently, reorganizations, restructurings, and bankruptcies have replaced IPOs as the common financial vehicle of the times. However, these distressed companies can still provide an avenue for profitable investing. This eagerly anticipated new reference helps guide you through this treacherous landscape in order to master the multi-move chess-like strategies required to achieve financially advantageous results for your portfolio. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on the market to deal with the myriad of issues surrounding a distressed company.

Providing theoretical and practical insight, Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors presents a conceptual, but not overly technical, outline of the financial and bankruptcy law context in which restructurings take place. The book covers the broader financial environment of the reorganization and the basic process of investment analysis and investment strategies. The author uses numerous real-world examples and case studies to emphasize important concepts and critical issues.

The developments that have created these extraordinary investment opportunities have also created tremendous demand for professionals with experience and knowledge in the restructuring process. Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors addresses the complete knowledge needs of investors and professionals in the burgeoning world of financially distressed companies. It is perfect for bankruptcy departments of law firms, restructuring advisory groups, turnaround consulting firms, and reorganization and distressed securities departments of investment banks.

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Product Details

Author:	Stephen G. Moyer
Hardcover:	448 pages
Publisher:	J. Ross Publishing
Publication Date:	2004-11
Language:	English
ISBN:	1932159185
Product Length:	9.26 inches
Product Width:	6.44 inches
Product Height:	1.15 inches
Product Weight:	1.61 pounds
Package Length:	9.0 inches
Package Width:	6.1 inches
Package Height:	1.2 inches
Package Weight:	1.65 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 18 reviews

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22 of 23 found the following review helpful:

Valuable insights, useful commentary, and professionally written. Oct 21, 2005 By Atherton Reader
Like many of us, perhaps you've owned some bonds that have fallen into junk status or worse, distress/bankruptcy. In most cases, did you throw up your arms either selling at a loss or confused by smallprint mail solicitations? Stephen Moyer is an absolute pro and de-mystifies what some may think of as a blackbox only understood by investment specialists, asset pirates, and/or bankruptcy lawyers.

Conversely, if you are a professional and seeking to augment your understanding, Moyer provides insightful commentary on areas like negotiation leverage points, key area to control, legal bounds of control, pre & post-bankruptcy valuation approaches, and comparisons to real deals done recently in the marketplace. Most of his examples are from 1998-2003, and he tries to use contemporary issues to highlight arguments. Unfortunately, you will not find the most recent Bankruptcy Code reforms which commenced Oct 17, 2005. For instance, he states on page 77 that management can "...extend the [bankruptcy] exclusivity period virtually indefinitely...", which today is essentially limited to 18 months. Although a shortcoming to the book, any professional investor would have access to materials to become up-to-date on the recent reforms.

Moyer's CV reads long: Stanford Law, Chicago MBA, CFA, CPA, and Drexel Lambert heritage. Obviously, he knows what he is talking about. His writing interests do seem to be lawyer-ly; for instance, he spends an inordinate amount of time explaining issues around confidentiality agreements and duties. But, I appreciated his clear and concise style and sentences. No arrogance in his style nor is he trying to sell his current firm.

Excellent book. Strongly recommend despite the price.

18 of 19 found the following review helpful:

A Complete Introduction Nov 01, 2005 By John Matlock "Gunny"
The premise of this book is really quite simple.

Identify securities (bonds, stocks or whatever) from companies that are in trouble. Buy these securities when other investors are ignoring or even selling them. Then when the company gets turned around, you can make a fortune. What you don't want to do is buy these securities only to see the companies go out of business so that your securities are now completely worthless.

As you might guess from the title, this book is about how to analyze distressed companies that offer this potential investment path. It covers virtually every aspect of finding such companies, determining if the proposed investment is feasible, explains the differences in the company going through one of the various bankruptcy procedures, the legal and financial due diligence issues, and more. The final result is a set of basic investment strategies and analytical techniques, complete with case studies and referrences to numerous real-world examples to emphasize important concepts and critical issues.

Along with the book is a companion web site that offers additional information, checklists, sample letters, and more.

This book is a complete introduction to this new and emerging field.

12 of 13 found the following review helpful:

A reference in the art from a thought leader in the practice Dec 11, 2004 By Marc Sherman
Steve offers a comprehensive yet pragmatic treatment of a multifaceted subject. Illustrative case examples that emphasize the complex interplay of market forces, financial analysis, economics, and judicial process that dictate success or failure in distressed investing.
Written as an integrated text book by a single author, Distressed Debt Analysis follows a single thought-thread on the subject, avoiding the disjointed "patchwork quilt" products typically produced by editors collecting essays from individual subject matter experts (aka Fabozzi and Altman).

8 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Excellent practical review Aug 18, 2005 By Desi Dude
Read this instead of other high yield/distressed books - this focuses on practical, ready to use things rather than wading through a statistical quagmire of default rates, transition tables etc. Maybe a bit light on fundamental valuation, but other than that, deservedly the best book on distressed investing.

11 of 12 found the following review helpful:

Best in class Jul 17, 2005 By MPK
This is the best book on distressed investments that I have read. As a distressed debt analyst at a hedge fund, I found Mr. Moyer's book to be relatively comprehensive yet extremely readable. An excellent primer on the topic. I recommend it highly to anyone starting out in the field.

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