Finance Ch. 7

An unsecured debt usually with a maturity under 10 years

Note

Treasury bid and ask prices on a Treasury bond are sometimes given in terms of yields, so there would be a bid yield and an ask yield. WHich do you think would be higher?

Prices and yields move in opposite directions. Since the bid PRICE must be lower, the bid YIELD must be higher

What is the major difference between public issue and privately placed bonds?

Privately placed bonds is directly placed with a lender and not offered to the public, and because this is a private transaction, the specific terms are up to the parties involved

A ___ ___ is that part of the indenture or loan agreement that limits certain actions a company might otherwise wish to take during the terms of the loan

Protective covenant

A ___ bond allows the holder to force the issuer to buy back the bond at a stated price. For example, if a change in bond rating occurs

Put bond

The ____ ___ on an investment is the percentage change in how much you can buy with your dollars---in other words, the percentage change in your purchasing power

Real rate

Interest rates or rates of return that have been adjusted for inflation

Real rates

The form of bond issue in which the registrar of the company records ownership of each bond; payment is made directly to the owner of record

Registered form

The ___ ___ bond is a relatively new type of structured note. One type generally offers a high coupon rate, but the redemption at maturity can be paid in cash at par value or paid in shares of stock.

Reverse convertible bond

A ____ ___ is an account managed by the bond trustee for the purpose of repaying the bonds. The company makes annual payments to the trustee, who then uses the funds to retire a portion of the debt. The trustee does this by either buying up some of the bonds in the market or calling in a fraction of the outstanding bonds.

Sinking fund

Why might an investor be more concerned with the nominal rate of return rather than the real rate of return?

Some investors have obligations that are denominated in dollars; that is, they are nominal. Their primary concern is that an investment provide the needed dollar amounts. Pension funds, for example, often must plan for pension payments many years in the future. If those payments are fixed in dollar terms, then it is the nominal return on an investment that is important

The portion of a nomina interest rate or bond yield that represents compensation for unfavorable tax status

Taxability premiums

The relationship between nominal interest rates on default-free, pure discount securities and time to maturity; that is, the pure time value of money

Term structure of interest rates

When interest rates rise, what happens to the PV of the bond's remaining cash flows?

The PV declines

What is the main difference between the Treasury Yield Curve and the Term Structure

The Term Structure is based on pure discount bonds, whereas the yield curve is based on coupon bond yields

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The amount of the total amount of the discount is the foregone coupon payments if the bond were issued with present market conditions

What is the benefit and cost of the issuer from including a Put Provision in the bond?

The benefit is that it lowers the coupon rate. The cost is that it may have to buy back the bond at an unattractive price

What does it mean if the current yield is lower than the YTM?

The current yield considers only the coupon portion of your return; it doesn't consider the built-in gain from the price discount; for a premium bond the reverse is true, meaning that current yield would be higher because it ignores the built-in loss

What is the equation for the Fisher Effect?

1 + R = (1+r)(1+h) R stands for the nominal rate r stands for the real rate h stands for inflation

What do we need to know about a bond to determine its value at a specific point in time? (4 things)

1. # of periods remaining until maturity 2. Face Value 3. Coupon 4. Market interest rate for bonds with similar features

What are the 2 reasons that the number of bond issues far exceeds the number of stock issues

1. A corporation would typically have only one common stock issue outstanding; however, a signle large corporation could easily have a dozen or more note and bond issues outstanding 2. The bond market is not transparent

What are the 3 basic components that determine the shape of the term structure

1. Real rate of interest (the compensation investors demand for forgoing the use of their money) 2. Rate of inflation 3. Interest rate risk

What are 3 examples of possible sinking fund arrangements

1. Some sinking funds start about 10 years after the initial issuance 2. Some sinking funds establish equal payments over the life of the bond 3. Some high-quality bond issues establish payments to the sinking fund that are not sufficient to redeem the entire issue

What are the 2 features of floating rate bonds

1. The holder has the right to redeem the note at par on the coupon payment date after some specified amount of time---called a PUT provision 2. The coupon rate has a floor and a ceiling, meaning that the coupon is subject to a minimum and maximum

What two things does the sensitivity of interest rate risk depend on?

1. The time to maturity --- the longer the time to maturity, the greater the interest rate risk 2. Coupon rate --- the lower the coupon rate, the greater the interest rate risk

What are two important things to know about US Treasury Bonds

1. There is no default risk 2. Exempt from state income taxes, but not federal income taxes

What are the 2 drawbacks of bearer bonds?

1. They are difficult to recover if lost or stolen 2. Because the company does not know who owns its bonds, it cannot notify bondholders of important events

What are 3 things to know about Munis (municipal bonds)

1. They have varying degrees of default risk and are rated like corporate bonds 2. Their coupons are exempt from federal income tax, but they are taxed at the state level 3. They are almost always callable

What are the costs for the issuer of including a call provision?

A higher coupon

The price a dealer is willing to take for a security

Ask price

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At the current time, public bonds issued in the US by industrial and financial companies are typically debentures. However, most utility and railroad bonds are secured by a pledge of assets

The form of bond issue in which the bond is issued without record of the owner's name; payment is made to whomever holds the bond (usually mails in the coupon)

Bearer form

Why is the term structure sometimes "humped"?

Because rates increase at first, but then begin to decline as we look at longer and longer-term rates.

The price a dealer is willing to pay for a security

Bid Price

The difference between the ask price and the bid price --- it represents the dealer's profit

Bid-ask spread

What is the equation in word to calculate bond value?

Bond Value = PV of the coupons + PV of the face amount

Looking back at crossover bonds,s why do you think split ratings such as these occurred/

Bond ratings have a subjective factor to them. Split ratings reflect a difference of opinion among credit agencies

The amount by which the call price exceeds the par value of a bond

Call premium

A ____ ____ allows the company to repurchase or "call" part or all of the bond issue at stated prices over a specific period. Generally this price is above the bond's stated value

Call provision

A bond that, during a certain period, cannot be redeemed by the issuer

Call-protected bond

The price of a bond net of accrued interest; this is the price that is typically quoted

Clean price

____ is a general term that frequently means securities that are pledged as security for payment of debt

Collateral

A ____ bond can be swapped for a fixed number of shares of stock anytime before maturity at the bondholder's option.

Convertible bonds

The stated interest payment made on a bond

Coupon

The annual coupon divided by the face value of a bond

Coupon rate

A bond's annual coupon divided by its price

Current yield

What is the relationship between the current yield and YTM for premium bonds? What about for bonds selling at par value?

Current yield is defined as the annual coupon payment divided by the current bond price. For premium bonds, the current yield exceeds the YTM, for discount bonds the current yield is less than the YTM, and for bonds selling at par value, the current yield is equal to the YTM. In all cases, the current yield plus the expected one-period capital gains yield of the bond must be equal to the required return.

An unsecured bond for which no specific pledge of property is made. They have a claim on property not otherwise pledged---in other words, the property that remains after mortgages and collateral trusts are taken into account

Debenture

Other than interest rate risk, real rate, and inflation premium, what are 3 things that affect the Treasury Yield Curve

Default Risk Premium Taxability Premium Liquidity Premium

The portion of a nominal interest rate or bond yield that represents compensation for the possibility of default

Default risk premium

A call provision prohibiting the company from redeeming a bond prior to a certain date

Deferred call provision

The price of a bond including accrued interest, also known as the full price or invoice price. This is the price the buyer actually pays

Dirty Price

The relationship between nominal returns, real returns, and inflation

Fisher Effect

What are the benefits for the issuer of including a call provision? There are 2

Fist, the company can take advantage of interest rate declines by calling in an issue and replacing it with a lower coupon issue. Second, a company might wish to eliminate a covenant for some reason. Calling the issue does this

With ____-___ ___, the coupon payments are adjustable. The adjustments are tied to an interest rate index such as the Treasury Bill interest rate. The value of this bond depends on exactly how the coupon payment adjustments are defined. In most cases, the coupon adjusts with a lag to some base rate

Floating-rate bonds

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For tax purposes, the issuer of a zero coupon bond deducts interest every year even though no interest is actually paid, and the bondholder must pay taxes on interest accrued every year even though none was actually received

All else equal, the longer the time to maturity the ____ the interest rate risk

Greater

All else equal, the lower the coupon rate, the ___ the interest rate risk

Greater

____ bonds are similar to conventional bonds, except that coupon payments depend on company income. Specifically, coupons are paid to bondholders only if the firm's income is sufficient.

Income bonds

The ____ is the written agreement between the corporation (borrower) and its creditors. It generally includes the following provisions: The basic terms of the bond The total amount of bonds issued A description of property used as security The repayment arrangements The call provisions Details of the protective covenants

Indenture

The portion of a nominal interest rate that represents compensation for expected future inflation Investors thinking about lending money for various lengths of time recognize that future inflation erodes the value of the dollars that will be returned, as a result they demand compensation for this loss in the form of higher nominal rates. Big factor in the shape of the term structure

Inflation premium

The risk that arises for bond owners from fluctuating interest rates

Interest rate risk

The compensation investors demand for bearing interest rate risk

Interest rate risk premium

How does Moody's and S&P determine a corporation's bond rating?

Its based on how likely the corporation is to default and the protection creditors have in the event of default

Any bond rated lower than a BBB is called what?

Junk bond

What are the implications for bond investors of the lack of transparency in the bond market?

Lack of transparency means that a buyer or seller can't see recent transactions, so it is much harder to determine what the best bid and ask prices are at any point in time

The portion of a nominal interest rate or bond yield that represents compensation for lack of liquidity

Liquidity premium

What are the two leading bond-rating firms?

Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&P)

_____ ____ are secured by a mortgage on the real property of the borrower.

Mortgage securities

Is it possible for the bid price to be higher than the ask price?

No. If the bid price were higher than the ask price, the implication would be that a dealer was willing to sell a bond and immediately buy it back at a higher price.

The ___ ___ on an investment is the percentage change in the number of dollars you have

Nominal rate

Interest rates or rates of return that have not been adjusted for inflation

Nominal rates

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The real rate of interest is the basic component underlying every interest rate, regardless of the time to maturity. When the real rate is high, all interest rates will tend to be higher, and vice versa. Thus, the real rate doesn't really determine the shape of the term strucutre; instead, it mostly influences the overall level of interest rates

What is good to know about Sukuk bonds

Their government does not allow for interest

Why do corporations try to create a debt security that is really an equity security?

To obtain the tax benefits of debt and the bankruptcy benefits equity

A plot of the yields on Treasury notes and bonds relative to maturity

Treasury Yield Curve

When long-term rates are higher than short-term rates, we say that the term structure is ____ sloping; and when short-term rates are higher than long-term rates, we say the term structure is ___ sloping

Upward (most common in modern times) Downward

A ____ gives the buyer of a bond the right to purchase shares of stock at a fixed price. Such a right would be very valuable if the stock price climbed substantially. Because of the value of this feature, bonds that have these features are often issued at a very low coupon rate

Warrants

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When bonds pay less than the going rate, investors are willing to lend only something less than $1,000 (face value) promised repayment. Because the bond sells for less than face value, it is said to be a discount bond

The interest rate required in the market on a bond

Yield to Maturity (YTM)

A bond that makes no coupon payments and is thus initially priced at a deep discount

Zero coupon bonds