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Annette Thau

Books: “The Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More,” “Poetry and Anti-Poetry: A Study of Max Jacob's Poetic Style”

E-Mail: athau1@earthlink.net

Biography:
Annette Thau is a former municipal bond analyst for the Chase Manhattan Bank and a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She has written more than 20 articles about the bond market for the AAIIJournal and has lectured to groups nationwide. In November 2009, she was a featured speaker at AAII's Investor Conference.

Annette earned a Ph.D. in French literature from Columbia University and taught courses in French language and literature at the college level. Her first book was a study of the poetry of Max Jacob, a friend and collaborator of Picasso and Apollinaire. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and she has received numerous awards including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and University Fellowships from Columbia University.

Annette wrote “The Bond Book” to fill a need for a book that would explain bonds and the bond market in clear language that could be understood by any individual investor. The book has been a perennial best seller since its first edition, published in 1990. Its third edition, fully revised and updated, was released in November 2010.

author Image Annette Thau is the author of “The Bond Book, Third Edition: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More” (McGraw-Hill, 2010). Annette has also written more than 20 articles for the AAII Journal.