You have been asked to write a training document about the US Bond Market for use in the new employee-training program. In your document‚ you must make sure to address each of the following: 1a: The key players in the market; and the types of investments available to both individual investors and institutional investors‚ Bond Characteristics A bond is a "security" which gives the holder a financial claim on the issuer. This claim protects the holder in circumstances in which the issuer is
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main advantages and disadvantages of CAT bonds compared to (re)insurance from the perspective of the party seeking protection. The first main advantage of CAT bond compared to reinsurance‚ in terms of the party seeking protection‚ the Sponsor‚Munich Re in our case‚ is that CAT bond ‚which is Queen Street II Captial Ltd in our case ‚allows the Munich Re to transfer the catastrophe risks (North Atlantic U.S.hurricane and European windstorms) to the CAT bond investors via SPRV‚ Queen Street II Capital
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Finance journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jbf The impact of bond rating changes on corporate bond prices: New evidence from the over-the-counter market Anthony D. May * Price College of Business‚ University of Oklahoma‚ 307 West Brooks‚ Norman‚ OK 73019‚ USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t I study the information content of bond ratings changes using daily corporate bond data from TRACE. Abnormal bond returns over a two-day event window that includes the downgrade (upgrade)
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of a bond? answer: if possible‚ begin this lecture by showing students an actual bond certificate. We show a real coupon bond with physical coupons. These can no longer be issued--it is too easy to evade taxes‚ especially estate taxes‚ with bearer bonds. All bonds today must be registered‚ and registered bonds don’t have physical coupons. 1. Par or face value. We generally assume a $1‚000 par value‚ but par can be anything‚ and often $5‚000 or more is used. With registered bonds‚ which
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from the banks‚ issuing stocks or issuing bonds. However‚ when the interest rate of borrowing from banks is very high due to high inflation‚ together with the stock market is quite instable; calling for capital from bond market is much more preferred by investors. In the context of this report‚ some major points regarding the bond market in Vietnam are presented. Firstly‚ a common picture about the Vietnam bond market is drawn. Next come the types of bonds and major participants in this market. Finally
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BOND MARKET IN INDIA BONDS ARE INTEREST BEARING DEBT INSTUMENTS. In India Bonds are issued by Government of India‚ State Governments‚ and Corporate Sector. The different categories of Bond market in India are as follows: (a) Government and Agency Bond Market (b) Corporate Bond Market (c) Municipal Bond Market (d) Mortgage backed and collateral Debt Market (e) Funding Bond Market (A) Government and Agency Bond Market: A government Bond is a debt instrument issued by Government in the
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The corporate bond market is “thin” compared to the market for money market securities or corporate stocks. a) true Prices in the corporate bond market tend to be less volatile than prices of securities sold in markets with greater trading volumes. a) False All other things being equal‚ a given change in the interest rates will have a greater impact on the price of a low-coupon bond than a higher-coupon bond with the same maturity. a) True If investors believe inflation will be increasing in the
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EQUITY WARRANT BONDS Equity warrant bonds are bonds issued with equity warrants attached. Warrants are similar to share options‚ and give their holder the right but not the obligation to subscribe for a fixed quantity of equity stocks in the company at a future date‚ and at a fixed subscription price (exercise price). When bonds are issued with warrants‚ the warrants are detachable and can be sold in the stock market separately from the bonds. Investors might therefore subscribe to an issue of
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annual interest income from the TIPS bond? From the Treasury note? b. How much interest will Judy receive over the five years from the Treasury note? From the TIPS? c. When each bond matures‚ what par value will Judy receive from the Treasury note? The TIPS? d. After five years‚ what is Judy’s total income (interest + par) from each bond? Should she use this total as a way of deciding which bond to purchase? P4 4. Assume a $1‚000 face value bond has a coupon rate of 8.5 percent‚ pays
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MORTGAGE BACKED BOND (MBB) WHAT IS IT MBBs are the third asset securitization vehicles. They differ from pass-thru and CMOs in 2 key dimensions: 1. Pass thru’ and CMOs remove mortgages from bank’s balance sheets as forms of offbalance sheet securitization. 1. MBBs normally remain on the balance sheet 2. Pass thru’ and CMOs have a direct link between the cash flows on the underlying mortgages and the cash flows on the bond vehicles 2. For MBBs‚ there is no direct link between the cash flow on
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