Balloon Payment A balloon payment is a single future payment of
the entire bond principal when the borrower makes periodic interest - only payments.
Not exact matches
The muni
bond has several maturity dates in which a portion of the
principal comes due on a separate date until the
entire principal is repaid.
As I found out, until 2004, CST always held it's
entire bond portfolio through to maturity as the whole basis of the fund has been in safe, secure investments with guaranteed
principal.
The maturity date of a
bond is the date after which the
entire principal amount that you paid while purchasing the
bond, will be returned back to you.
One important point to note as repetitively mentioned in this article is that when you choose to sell your existing
bonds before the maturity date, there is no guarantee that you will get back the
entire principal amount that you spent while purchasing the
bonds and this is entirely dependent on the current value of the
bond and the interest rate.