bond market Flashcards
bond is an instrument of
debt
debt is an instrument of
an obligation
types of assets
1,financial (non physical like stocks and bonds)
2,real (physical like stores real estet etc.)
bond sectors
1 treasury 2 agency 3 municipal 4 corporate 5 asset-backed securities 6 mortages
types of treasuries
1 bill (maturity of 1yr.) 2 note (10yrs.) 3 bond (10yrs.+)
agency
bonds for gov. agencies(cia.fbi etc.)
municipal
bonds for local gov. (like local schools,local states like ohio etc.)
corporate
1 bonds
2 medium-term notes
3 commercial paper
4 structured notes
what does default mean?
Default is the failure to repay a debt. A default can occur when a borrower is unable to make timely payments, misses,avoids or stops making payments.
investment grade
relatively low risk of default
non investment grade(junk bonds)
high risk of default
asset-backed securities
securitization of assets
securitization
Securitization involves taking an illiquid asset or group of assets and transforming them into one security. They doing it in most cases of debt
prime borrower
low risk borrower(low probability of default)
subprime borrower
high risk borrower (high probability of default)
coupon payment
annual interest payment that the bondholder receives from the bond’s issue date until it matures
liquidity
refers to how easily assets can be converted into cash
face value
the face value is the original cost of the
inverse floater
a bond or other type of debt whose coupon rate has an inverse relationship to a benchmark rate
how do investors make money with zero coupon bonds?
by buying them for less than their face value and collecting their principal and interest payments together at maturity.
reference rate
interest rate benchmark used to set other interest rates
libor
(London Inter-bank Offered Rate)benchmark interest rate at which major global banks lend to one another
what does coupon rate=6%-libor mean?
if libor is 1% coupon rate will be 5%, if libor 2% coupon rate will be 4% and so on
what is LBO?
Leverage Buy Out is is a type of acquisition whereby the cost of buying a company is financed primarily with borrowed funds
deferred coupon bond
A bond whereby the issuer is allowed to defer coupon interest for a specified period of time. usually pays with bond not with actual cash
embedded option
is a component of a security that gives either the issuer or the holder the right to take some specified action at present or in the future