In order for an investor to actually receive
the expected yield to maturity, she must reinvest the coupon payments she receives at a 10 % rate.
Not exact matches
«The extra reward you get in the form of higher
yields from stretching on
maturity will come back
to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than
expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.
Fed rates most directly affect
yields on shorter -
maturity bonds, and I don't
expect yields on longer
maturity bonds
to rise in the same way or
to the same degree.
This was called the «conundrum 2.0 ″ as it referred
to an earlier period (2004) where Fed tightening was met with huge global demand for Treasury debt that led
to smaller increases in longer
maturity yields than
expected.
However, in the case of a Defined
Maturity Fund, the SEC yield when you buy is a good estimate of the annualized return you can expect holding the fund to m
Maturity Fund, the SEC
yield when you buy is a good estimate of the annualized return you can
expect holding the fund
to maturitymaturity.
At the current term
to maturity of seven years and with a size of $ 1 billion, it's
expected that the loan could
yield investors between 5.28 - 5.47 %
to maturity.
The
yield to maturity is the average rate of return an investor can
expect if she purchases the bond and holds it until
maturity.
CLF pays out about 4.2 % in fully taxable interest, and since its
yield to maturity is just 1.4 %, you can
expect it
to suffer significant capital loss every year.
The market price of a bond is the present value of all
expected future interest and principal payments of the bond discounted at the bond's
yield to maturity, or rate of return.
With the understanding that the shorter the
maturity, the more closely we can
expect yields to reflect (and move in lock - step with) the fed funds rate, we can look
to points farther out on the
yield curve for a market consensus of future economic activity and interest rates.
A bond's «
yield to maturity» is the rate of return that you can
expect until the bond matures, or will be repaid.
As a result, the
expected annual returns for the funds (based on each fund's
yield to maturity minus its annual fee) falls
to about 1.2 %, 1.9 %, and 1.9 % for VSB, VSC, and VAB respectively.
Treasury
yields across
maturities rose leading up
to the meeting, with short - term rates rising the most as markets took into account the Fed's
expected pace of three
to four rate hikes in 2017.
Flat
Yield Curve - This curve indicates the
yields of bonds with different
maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are
expected to decline moderately but offset by positive term premium.
In our analysis, quarterly
yield differences (after MER) and
maturity differences between XSB and XBB were examined
to determine when a switch from one
to the other would have made sense (i.e. would have given us an additional 0.15 % of annual
expected yield for each additional year of term risk).
The horizontal axis represents years
to maturity and the vertical axis the
expected yield.
Therefore, when analyzing
yields for muni bonds offered on the secondary market, the
yield -
to -
maturity figure is usually sufficient
to determine an
expected return.
In other words, if interest rates stay the same, you can
expect CLF
to post capital losses because its cash
yield is higher than its
yield -
to -
maturity.
Yield to maturity is a bond's
expected internal rate of return, assuming it will be held
to maturity, that is, the discount rate which equates all remaining cash flows
to the investor (all remaining coupons and repayment of the par value at
maturity) with the current market price.
When investors
expect longer -
maturity bond
yields to become even higher in the future, many would temporarily park their funds in shorter - term securities in hopes of purchasing longer - term bonds later for higher
yields.
Conversely, if a fund purchases these securities at a discount, a prepayment rate that is faster than
expected will increase
yield to maturity, while a prepayment rate that is slower than
expected will reduce
yield to maturity.
Investors are
expected to earn an estimated 5.4 % annual return over the life of the project, well above the current 2.66
yield to maturity of the current, on - the - run 10 - year US Treasury note.