But a bigger question looms: Will the much - publicized settlement change the rules of engagement between raters and
corporate issuers of bonds, as well as the investors who buy them?
Not exact matches
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.
Convertible Debt - the term convertible debt basically, means securities that can be converted to other specified amounts
of another security at the option
of the holder and
issuer, either single or both... Debentures or
corporate bonds are traded for commodities stock within a specific period.
Callable and puttable The
issuer of a callable
corporate bond maintains the right to redeem the security on a set date prior to maturity and pay back the
bond's owner either par (full) value or a percentage
of par value.
A 2014 Standard & Poor's report found that «
corporate issuers see green
bonds as an alternative financing avenue, offering access to a diversified investor base, plus a means
of implementing and maintaining efficiency measures considered environmentally sustainable.»
Issuers from the
Corporate sector represent for example 32 %
of the green
bond universe vs 18 % in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.
One example: a
corporate bond relative value strategy that examines the capital structure
of a particular
issuer and discovers that short - term credit spreads are too high relative to long - term credit spreads.
«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.
Using monthly data for a broad (but filtered) sample
of U.S.
corporate bonds /
issuers (10,825
bonds and 5,300
issuers) and monthly return data for 213 actively managed credit hedge funds and 218 actively managed credit mutual funds during January 1997 through December 2013, they find that: Keep Reading
Like equity, the value
of a high yield
bond is tied to the fate
of its
corporate issuer.
The S&P 500 High Yield
Corporate Bond Index tracks the junk
bonds of issuers of the S&P 500 and as the yields indicate, on average, they tend to be better quality than the
bonds in the broader index.
The manager aims to produce high income returns by investing predominantly in investment grade or high - quality
issuers, including the subordinated
corporate bond issues
of investment grade business.
Corporate bonds of the
issuers in the S&P 500 are tracked in the S&P 500
Bond Index.
The S&P International
Corporate Bond Index is comprised of non-U.S. investment grade corporate issuers and is calculated in US
Corporate Bond Index is comprised
of non-U.S. investment grade
corporate issuers and is calculated in US
corporate issuers and is calculated in US dollars.
The index will rank U.S. Treasuries, U.S. investment grade
corporate bonds, U.S. investment grade mortgage backed securities, U.S. high yield debt and U.S. dollar denominated debt
of emerging market
issuer according to their momentum / trend scores.
Diversifying with international
corporate bonds can potentially reduce exposure to market variations
of a single currency,
issuer, and asset class.
One example: a
corporate bond relative value strategy that examines the capital structure
of a particular
issuer and discovers that short - term credit spreads are too high relative to long - term credit spreads.
A diversified portfolio
of nearly 200 dollar - denominated investment grade
corporate bonds from both U.S. and foreign
issuers.
Duration: Investment grade
corporate bonds of the issuers of the S&P 500 Index are tracked in the S&P 500 / MarketAxess Investment Grade Corporate Bo
corporate bonds of the
issuers of the S&P 500 Index are tracked in the S&P 500 / MarketAxess Investment Grade
Corporate Bo
Corporate Bond Index.
Diversity & number
of bond issues: The nearly 100,000 bond issues tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond mar
bond issues: The nearly 100,000
bond issues tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond mar
bond issues tracked in the S&P Municipal
Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond mar
Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent
issuers than the
corporate bond mar
bond market.
The U.S.
corporate bond markets have long been an important source
of capital for
issuers.
While the two main categories
of funds are those that provide taxable or tax - exempt income to investors,
bond funds also vary based on maturity (short - term, long - term), type
of issuer (municipal,
corporate, etc.), strategy, investment objective and credit quality.
refers to the area
of the economy from which a
corporate bond issuer primarily derives its revenues, such as financial or industrial.
These are
bonds paying a high rate
of interest because the
issuers are
of lesser credit quality than government and investment - grade
corporate bonds.
Read the prospectus for your fund and it will have the average duration as well as information about the
issuers of the
bonds it does invest in (govt, agency, mortgage backed, foreign, high quality
corporate, etc) and whether there are constraints on the target average maturity.
Fixed income investments (also known as
bonds) seem straightforward on the surface: The investor earns a fixed rate
of return from the
bond issuer (a public or
corporate entity) for a specified term.
As credit conditions change,
corporate issuers experience different price responses, some more extreme than others, allowing for rebalancing into the temporarily cheap
bonds of ultimately sound companies.
With a portfolio composed
of investment - grade debt from
corporate, sovereign and supranational
issuers with three - year maximum maturities, the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit
Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: CSJ) aims to offer a higher distribution yield than comparable all - Treasury funds, but it does have a marginally higher credit risk.
1) One
of the unwritten rules
of the
corporate bond market is avoid the sector that has been the biggest
issuer lately.
Exhibit 4 shows the annual returns in different time frames, where we can see in more detail how similarly the
corporate bond markets have behaved for issuers from the U.S. and Mexico — as measured by the S&P 500 Bond Index (MXN) and S&P / BMV Corporate Eurobonos Bond Index, respectively — with three - year returns of 16.00 % and 16.56 %, respectively, and five - year returns of 15.68 % and 15.62 %, resp
corporate bond markets have behaved for issuers from the U.S. and Mexico — as measured by the S&P 500 Bond Index (MXN) and S&P / BMV Corporate Eurobonos Bond Index, respectively — with three - year returns of 16.00 % and 16.56 %, respectively, and five - year returns of 15.68 % and 15.62 %, respectiv
bond markets have behaved for
issuers from the U.S. and Mexico — as measured by the S&P 500
Bond Index (MXN) and S&P / BMV Corporate Eurobonos Bond Index, respectively — with three - year returns of 16.00 % and 16.56 %, respectively, and five - year returns of 15.68 % and 15.62 %, respectiv
Bond Index (MXN) and S&P / BMV
Corporate Eurobonos Bond Index, respectively — with three - year returns of 16.00 % and 16.56 %, respectively, and five - year returns of 15.68 % and 15.62 %, resp
Corporate Eurobonos
Bond Index, respectively — with three - year returns of 16.00 % and 16.56 %, respectively, and five - year returns of 15.68 % and 15.62 %, respectiv
Bond Index, respectively — with three - year returns
of 16.00 % and 16.56 %, respectively, and five - year returns
of 15.68 % and 15.62 %, respectively.
Apple has also become one
of the larger U.S.
corporate bond issuers.
A review
of high - yield debt investments should cover: (1) analysis
of the industry, including growth rates, special risks and leading companies; (2) analysis
of the
bond issuer, including the company's position in its industry; new products; management stability; the outlook for growth in revenues and cash flow as captured in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, also called EBITDA; value
of corporate assets and the debt maturity schedule; and (3) analysis
of the issue, including special provisions in the «
bond indenture,» covenants protecting the bondholder, use
of the money raised in
bond offerings, debt seniority, secondary market liquidity and call provisions.
To maintain maximum flexibility, the securities in which the Income Fund may invest include
corporate debt securities
of issuers in the U.S. and foreign countries, bank debt (including bank loans and participations), government and agency debt securities
of the U.S. and foreign countries, convertible
bonds and other convertible securities and equity securities, including preferred and common stock and interests in REITs.
The S&P 500 ® Energy
Corporate Bond Index, a sub-index
of the S&P 500
Bond Index that includes both investment - grade and high - yield
issuers of the equity index, has returned -0.11 % MTD and -0.72 % YTD.
Issuer name recognition and entity size as a factor can be illustrated by comparing the trade volume data
of two indices: the S&P 500 Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index and the broader S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index.
Domestic
corporate bonds carry the credit risk
of their
issuers and thus usually offer additional yield.
These funds invest primarily in Canadian
bonds issued by a variety
of government and / or
corporate issuers.
Most
of the
corporate bonds are from high - quality
issuers such as Toronto - Dominion Bank, Hydro One, Intact Financial and Canadian Pacific Railway.
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of these entities.
The
issuer can buy back these
corporate bonds early (that is, before the maturity date) and may do so if any
of these events occurs.
On this date, the
issuer must buy back (or redeem) all
of the
corporate bonds issued to you.
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corporate bonds, Investing Editorial Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airlines or hotel chain, or other advertiser and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these enti
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of any bank, credit card
issuer, airlines or hotel chain, or other advertiser and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any
of these entities.
A callable municipal,
corporate, federal agency or government security gives the
issuer of the
bond the right to redeem it at predetermined prices at specified times prior to maturity.
The leading rating agencies assess most
issuers of corporate bonds as to their ability and willingness to pay interest and repay principal as scheduled.
Frequently advises
corporate issuers on a range
of bond, sukuk and share capital offerings.