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We hope this guide will be useful to other green bond issuers in the Nordic region as well as in other geographies, and to the investor community.

In 2015, HCR set a record for financing the creation or preservation of more than 11,000 affordable homes and apartments and was the # 1 bond issuer in the nation with $ 2.5 billion issued.

In 2016, HCR set a record for the third year in a row, financing the creation or preservation of more than 17,000 affordable homes and apartments, creating nearly 2,000 homeownership opportunities for first - time homebuyers, and was once again the # 1 affordable housing bond issuer in the nation with $ 2.8 billion issued.

In 2015, HCR was the # 1 bond issuer in the nation with $ 2.5 billion issued and is taking the lead on the Governor's new $ 10 billion commitment to finance the creation or preservation of 100,000 affordable apartments and homes over the next five years.

Not exact matches

When you own a bond mutual fund, you don't actually own a bond — which will continue to pay a coupon so long as the issuer isn't in default — you just own a share of the fund, which is comprised of lots of bonds and sometimes other things.

Amazon has been an infrequent issuer in the investment - grade bond market, with only $ 7.8 billion of debt outstanding as of June 30.

Early on, Swart predicted that smart issuers will use a reverse convertible debt note, that is, stock that becomes a bond, an idea that so baffled the audience in Boulder that he had to repeat it twice.

Moreover, Moody's said the ranks of the lowest level of junk bond issuers are growing, with an 8 percent quarterly increase and 27 percent growth annually, thanks in large part to weakness in oil and gas companies.

The secondary market is composed of bonds that were issued in the past and may be traded until redeemed by the issuer.

a government, corporation, municipality, or agency that has issued a security (e.g., a bond) in order to raise capital or to repay other debt; the issuer goes to an underwriter to get their securities sold in the new issue market; for certificates of deposit (CDs), this is the bank that has issued the CD; in the case of fixed income securities, the issuer of the security is the primary determinant of the security's characteristics (e.g., coupon interest rate, maturity, call features, etc..)

New issues have a significant presence in the bond market as issuers are constantly entering the market to «roll» their existing debt as well as create new debt.

Like most US bond funds, SHYL does nt consider issuer domicileit simply screens for bonds that are issued and traded in US dollars.

FLIA will invest in fixed - and floating - rate bonds from the full range of governmental and corporate issuers representing developed markets other than the U.S..

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

Private independent rating services such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings Inc. provide these evaluations of a bond issuer's financial strength, or its ability to pay a bond's principal and interest in a timely fashion.

As a result, we could see very heavy issuance through year - end as issuers try to squeeze in advance refundings or private activity bonds.

Generally, among asset classes, stocks are more volatile than bonds or short - term instruments and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments.

In short, bonds are loans that investors make to governments, companies, pools of mortgage owners or many other types of issuers.

If the company's underlying stock decreases in value, an investor can still hold onto the convertible bond and receive the bond's par value at maturity, as long as the issuer does not default.

Changes in the financial strength of a bond issuer or in a bond's credit rating may affect its value.

Issuers may be located in any geography, but holdings must be either denominated in one of the G10 currencies, or issued outside of the home market of the issue currency — effectively excluding local - currency emerging - market bonds.

One red flag for lenders is that the volume of energy debt rated CCC or below — the weakest ratings among junk bond issuers — has more than doubled to $ 62 billion from a year ago, Fitch said in a June 12 report.

Greylock, a $ 990 million hedge fund run by Willem J. «Hans» Humes, says in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that international junk bonds are «generally considered to be predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer's capacity to pay,» and that defaulters sometimes end up shielded by «principles of sovereign immunity.»

Typically an issuer will call a bond when interest rates fall, potentially leaving investors with a capital loss or loss in income and less favorable reinvestment options.

If a bond issuer fails to make either a coupon or principal payment when they are due, or fails to meet some other provision of the bond indenture, it is said to be in default.

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

«One of the reasons why we are seeing a growing interest in social bonds is because people want diversity in their SRI (sustainable and responsible investing) portfolios — they want different kinds of issuers,» says Andrew Salvoni, head of Morgan Stanley's green and sustainable bond syndicate desk.

Last month, the U.S. - based coffee company debuted in the international markets with the first ever yen sustainability bond by a non-Japanese issuer.

There is currently no clear difference in pricing between green and non-green bonds from the same issuer with the same maturity.

«One of the reasons why we are seeing a growing interest in social bonds is because people want diversity in their SRI portfolios — they want different kinds of issuers,» says Salvoni.

Given that the risk profile of green bonds is in line with that of traditional offerings from the issuer, they will typically trade at identical or very similar valuations.

Issuers from the Corporate sector represent for example 32 % of the green bond universe vs 18 % in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.

Their opinions of that creditworthiness — in other words, the issuer's financial ability to make interest payments and repay the loan in full at maturity — is what determines the bond's rating and also affects the yield the issuer must pay to entice investors.

Typically an issuer will call a bond when interest rates fall, potentially leaving investors with capital losses or losses in income and less favorable reinvestment options.

That's the same setup that enabled bond issuers and mortgage obligation repackagers to receive jacked - up credit ratings in the run - up to the Great Recession.

Last week, iShares, the world's largest ETF issuer, introduced four new bond ETFs, including a pair rooted in smart beta methodologies.

In a recent blog, WisdomTree, the issuer behind these funds, argued that negative - duration bond ETFs are handy for investors wanting to profit from rising rates.

«Starting in late 2014, overseas buyers began a US corporate bond shopping spree, adding $ 11.5 billion a month, on average, over 13 consecutive months, taking down roughly 35 % of net supply of US issuer paper,» Melentyev writes.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised a total of $ 2.6 billion in investment banking fees in the US last year, when it benefited from a boom in junk bond underwriting as corporate issuers rushed to take advantage of low rates ahead of the Federal Reserve's plans to withdraw stimulus measures.

Bond funds are subject to interest rate risk, which is the chance bond prices overall will decline because of rising interest rates, and credit risk, which is the chance a bond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner or that negative perceptions of the issuer's ability to make such payments will cause the price of that bond to declBond funds are subject to interest rate risk, which is the chance bond prices overall will decline because of rising interest rates, and credit risk, which is the chance a bond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner or that negative perceptions of the issuer's ability to make such payments will cause the price of that bond to declbond prices overall will decline because of rising interest rates, and credit risk, which is the chance a bond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner or that negative perceptions of the issuer's ability to make such payments will cause the price of that bond to declbond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner or that negative perceptions of the issuer's ability to make such payments will cause the price of that bond to declbond to decline.

It is the first financial institution in Finland to offer green finance for environmentally friendly projects and it still the first Finnish issuer of green bonds.

Bonds face credit risk if a decline in an issuer's credit rating, or creditworthiness, causes a bond's price to decline.

In simple terms, a bond holder is a lender who has loaned funds to the issuer of the bond.

While all bonds are denominated in U.S. dollars, the fund's broad geographic exposure includes the U.S., developed market, and emerging market issuers.

In the days since UK Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed the date of the referendum, markets have experienced some volatility focused on UK - specific assets; spreads for some UK issuers of euro - denominated bonds have widened considerably for no apparent reason, which suggests to us that a lot of Europeans are selling their UK exposure.

Invests primarily in high - yield, high - risk bonds (up to 25 % of assets may be invested in bonds of issuers outside the U.S.).

ARS are long - term bonds or preferred stock; therefore, ARS may be owned and pay coupons or dividends until the final maturity or in perpetuity to the extent that the issuer can, in fact, pay coupons or dividends.

If the bond included a «call provision,» the issuer can redeem it early, too — in order to issue new bonds at a lower interest rate, for example — but usually pays you a little more than the face value to do so.

Holding an individual bond to maturity will result in the return of principal (assuming the bond issuer doesn't default), but those nominal dollars will be worth less with inflation and during periods of higher interest rates.

While issuers are steadily adding to the supply of green bonds, the growth of ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing is driving demand in lock step.