To take advantage of lower rates in the future, ABC
issues callable bonds.
Some older 30 - year Treasuries may be callable five years before they mature, but the Treasury no longer
issues any callable bonds.
For example, Company A
issues callable bonds with an 8 % interest rate.
Not exact matches
A
callable or redeemable
bond is a
bond that may be redeemed by the
issuing company before the maturity date.
Primarily this would occur when there is a drop in interest rates — issuers often redeem the
callable bond and
issue another one at the new, lower interest rate.
Also, many corporate
bonds are
callable, meaning that they can be called in by the
issuing company and redeemed on a fixed date.
For instance, a
callable municipal
bond is
issued with a 6 % yield.
Call Risk Appears Limited for Preferreds Both preferreds and high yield
bonds share call risk, though preferreds tend to have more
callable issues.
If a company
issues a «
Callable Bond», it means that it can be redeemed by the Issuer (company) before the bond's matur
Bond», it means that it can be redeemed by the Issuer (company) before the
bond's matur
bond's maturity.
When rates drop to 6 %, the company calls the
bonds, pays each investor his principal and a small call premium, and then
issues new
callable bonds with a 6 % interest rate.
So if Company XYZ's
bonds are
callable, and rates fall from 10 % to 3 %, Company XYZ will probably call the 10 %
bonds and
issue new
bonds with a lower coupon.
A
callable bond is worth less to an investor than a noncallable
bond because the company
issuing the
bond has the power to redeem it and deprive the bondholder of the additional interest payments he'd be entitled to if the
bond was held to maturity.
Similar
issues arise for
callable bonds in the American municipal, corporate, and government agency sectors.
High - yield
bonds are typically
issued with maturities of 10 years or less, and are
callable after four to five years.
In the debt capital markets field, the team advised on the first
issue by a South African insurer of
callable bonds that qualified as secondary capital for the issuer.