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About the editors JESS LEDERMAN is a private investor and the editor of twenty books on global financial markets. He has been a chairman of The Asset Backed Capital Group, an executive vice president with Bear Stearns Mortgage Capital Corporation, and an associate director for Bear Stearns & Company. Mr. Lederman designed and managed the first blind pool raised to invest in subordinate mortgage-backed securities and was a co-founder of two of North America's largest private sector counterparts to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Previous books which he has edited or coauthored include The handbook of Derivatives and Synthetics, Small Cap Stocks, The Global Equity Markets, The Global Bond Markets, and The Secondary Mortgage Market. ROBERT A. KLEIN is a leading management consultant and coeditor of six other books on the financial markets. He assists Fortune 100 clients and smaller firms in the areas of financial analysis and control, systems and organizational design, and systems development and training. He was formerly assistant portfolio manager of both the Weingarten Equity Fund and the Constellation Growth Fund. Prior to joining Wiengarten, Mr. Klein was a financial analyst for Citibank.