Before you make an investment decision to invest in a bond, it is important to consider the quality of the bond (or the creditworthiness of the issuer). You can do that by looking at its assigned bond rating. This is a credit rating given to the bond by specialized rating agencies, afte...
A bond that matures in one year is much more predictable and thus less risky than a bond that matures in 20 years. Therefore, in general, the longer the time to maturity, the higher the interest rate. Also, all things being equal, the price of a longer term bond will be more volatile...
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Another risk associated with the bond market isreinvestment risk. A bond poses a reinvestment risk if its proceeds will need to be reinvested in a security with a lower yield. For example, imagine an investor buys a $1,000 bond with an annual coupon of 12%. Each year, the investor recei...
? Explain why there is an inverse relationship between changes in interest rates and bond prices. ? Identify the relationships among a bond’s coupon rate, yield required by the market, and price relative to par value (i.e., discount, premium, or par value). ? Explain how features of a...
Investing in Corporate Bonds and Credit Risk is a valuable tool for any corporate bond investor. All the most recent developments and strategies in investm... F Hagenstein,A Mertz,J Seifert - Palgrave Macmillan, 被引量: 3发表: 2004年 Investing in Junk Bonds: Inside the High Yield Debt Mark...
Bonds are debt securities issued by governments and companies to raise funds. Bond investors receive periodic interest payments and, when the bond matures, their initial investment.
We discuss investing in the bond market in this chapter, beginning with the basics of how to value bonds. The valuation of option-free bonds is a simple application of time value of money mathematics. What we mean by "option-free" is that the bonds do not have call, conversion, or put...
Using government bond market data for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan, I investigate several hypotheses. Market e... KL Smith - 《Journal of Financial Research》 被引量: 50发表: 2010年 In search of economic reality under the veil of financial marke...