Introduction to Bond Market A financial market place where debt instruments‚ primarily bonds‚ are bought and sold is called a bond market. The dealings in a bond market are limited to a small group of participants. Contrary to stock or commodities trading‚ the bond market (also known as the debt market) lacks a central exchange. The bond market (also known as the credit‚ or fixed income market) is a financial market where participants can issue new debt‚ known as the primary market‚ or buy and
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Excerpt from FS Series #1: enabling sub-sovereign bond issuances B3. Case 3: Alternative Financing for Water Utilities — Lessons from a Failed Bond Issue in Indonesia B3a. Background and Environment PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE WATER SECTOR HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ABSENT IN INDONESIA. ACHIEVING INDONESIA’S MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL‚ TO HALVE THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE WITHOUT SUSTAINABLE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER AND BASIC SANITATION BY 2015‚ WOULD REQUIRE A TENFOLD ANNUAL INCREASE IN INVESTMENTS
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have been altered so not as to bias any discussion in class. On March 14‚ 2007 Chiquita Brands International entered into a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Chiquita agreed to pay a $25 million fine after it admitted that it made payments to a terrorist organization for protection of its operations in Columbia. Teaching suggestions I find that this case works well when each ethical theory is used separately to analyze the situation. I begin by asking the students to summarize the
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Catastrophe Bonds By Kirill Graminschi The trouble with Catastrophe Bonds The article presents the difficulties insurance companies face when they are issuing catastrophe bonds. Do they efficiently hedge against large-scale disasters? It is very difficult hedging against catastrophic losses. Japan’s March earthquake‚ tsunami and nuclear disaster threat could cost the insurance industry between $21 and $34 billion. The catastrophe bonds are not helping much the insurance companies‚ although
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In the financial markets‚ the most common forms of marketable securities are stocks and bonds. Though they have some similarities to each other‚ they differ greatly in many aspects. Broadly speaking‚ both financial instruments enable one to invest in corporations‚ public and/or private‚ with possible profitable returns in the future. Stocks (or shares)‚ by definition‚ are shares of ownership in a company. By purchasing stocks in a company‚ the investor becomes a part owner‚ and thereby owns a percentage
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stocks and bonds which can be a sign of the company’s financial standing in a market. Since investors are risk averse and they would not like to put their money on stocks and bonds of a struggling company‚ but they would like to put their money on stocks and bonds of a stable and a progressing company. Investors benefit from company’s profit in the form of dividend when they buy a company’s stocks and investors can get higher or lower yield based on the bonds. This is the rationale behind bonds’ and stocks’
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Bond Case Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are vice presidents of Mutual of Seattle Insurance Company and co-directors of the company’s pension fund management division. An important new client‚ The North-Western Municipal Alliance‚ has requested that Mutual of Seattle present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities‚ and Strother and Tibbs‚ who will make the actual presentation‚ have asked you to help them by answering the following questions. What are the key features of a
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The characteristic of a convertible bond The convertible bond is one kind of equity-linked bonds. The term of the bond entitles bondholder to convert bonds into shares of the company or another company in the same group‚ at an agreed-upon conversion price‚ among a fixed period. The reason why it is made in this form is that the issuer can benefit from four aspects as follow‚ (1) better terms. A convertible bond have a lower interest rate‚ less restrictive covenants or the subordination of bondholders’
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Answer: A (3) The aggregate money demand depends on (a) The interest rate (b) The price level (c) Real national income (d) All of the above. (e) Only (a) and (c) Answer: D (4) The CA (current account) is equal to (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Y – ( C – I + G) Y + ( C + I + G) Y – ( C + I + G) Y – ( C + I – G) Y – (C + I + G) = –CA‚ (i.e.‚ minus the CA) Answer: C (5) The expected real interest rate (re) in terms of the nominal interest rate (R) and the expected inflation rate (πe) is given
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