In other words, if the buyer's bid was accepted, he would pay less than the current
bond holder did when the bond was first issued, because prevailing interest rates are now higher than 5 % on similar tax - exempt bonds.
And
bond holder do have a fiduciary prerogative.
Not exact matches
One unintended consequence of eternal QE may be that
holders of balanced, passive portfolios don't see the same defensive performance from
bonds as they have historically.
Non-asset
holders were punished — their bank deposits now generate little or no income, and they were forced to move into riskier assets, such as stocks,
bonds, real estate, or «anything that offers some yield and is not bolted down to the floor» (please see my answer to What kind of market distortions
does the Fed loaning out money at 0 % cause?).
It's not only that Beijing is telling them to
do so, HNA seems to be severely strapped for cash to meet it's huge debt obligations, mostly to local Chinese banks, but also
bond holders.
Public debt charges represent legal obligations to
bond holders, so don't expect any major changes there.
The debt goes to whoever buys the
bonds, and the US government either pays up when
bond holders redeem their
bonds or it doesn't.
Like
bonds, however, ETNs have a maturity date (although they don't pay interest), at which time the
holder will be paid the current principal amount.
Short - term
bond fund
holders have to
do the same thing.
If the OID
did not increase the
holder's tax basis during the period the
bond is outstanding, a sale of the
bond for an amount in excess of $ 4,628 would produce taxable capital gain to the bondholder, even if the increase in value arose solely as a result of the accretion of OID.
Because this calculation is only necessary to determine the bondholder's basis, it need not be
done by the bondholder until sale or other disposition of the
bond and, if the
holder holds the
bond until maturity, it need never be
done.
This rule
does not apply in the case of a tax - exempt
bond in order to ensure that the full amount of OID is treated as tax - exempt interest to the
holder and that the
holder does not have an «artificial» gain on the sale of the
bond.
The optimal outcome is that you get paid principal & interest to the stated maturity from this
bond that is deep in junk territory, CCC + / Caa1 - rated, where the proceeds of the deal don't increase the value of the firm, but are paid as a dividend to the equity
holders.
These
bonds don't make periodic interest payments and will only make one payment (the face value) to the
holder at maturity.
If there is any chance a
holder of individual
bonds may need to sell their
bonds and «cash out», interest rate risk could become a real problem (conversely,
bonds» market prices would increase if the prevailing interest rate were to drop, as it
did from 2001 through 2003.
In a normal bankruptcy (who knows what the government might
do) the
bond holders are some of the first to get paid, so they usually come out pretty well.
Junk
bond holders have been beaten up by the one risk they
did not want to see: credit spreads widening.
A security (stock or
bond) which
does not have the owner's name recorded in the books of the issuing company nor on the security itself and which is payable to the
holder, i.e., the
holder is the deemed owner of the security.
In effect, zero coupon
bond holders are required to pay taxes on money to which they don't yet have access.
Account
holders do not have to purchase
bonds as interest is earned with deposits.
The
holder doesn't receive the interest until the
bonds are cashed in.
Do you know what Larry MacDonald was comparing when he said that
holders of equity mutual funds would have been better off investing in
bonds?
After reviewing product design, which allowed
holders a one time option to increase their rate over the term of the annuity, and
doing a little bit of game theory work, I said, «Here's the good news: given what we know about policyholder behavior and what we know about
bonds, this is a cinch to hedge.»
Insurers
do this by taking insurance premiums from policy
holders, pooling them in the general account of the insurance company, and then investing them in a conservative portfolio of stocks,
bonds, cash equivalents and treasuries.