Yields
on callable bonds tend to be higher than yields on noncallable, «bullet maturity» bonds because the investor must be rewarded for taking the risk the issuer will call the bond if interest rates decline, forcing the investor to reinvest the proceeds at lower yields.
Prices
on callable bonds depend on the market's expectation of interest rates at the time the call feature on a bond becomes active in relation to the coupon rate on the callable bond.
(Read more
on callable bonds in «Callable Bonds: Leading a Double Life.»)
Not exact matches
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 pa
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 pa
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.
Also, many corporate
bonds are
callable, meaning that they can be called in by the issuing company and redeemed
on a fixed date.
This technique is especially useful for
callable and extendible / retractable
bonds, whose cash flows depend
on future interest rates, or are said to be «path dependent.»
A
callable bond with a call price based
on the greater of (a) par or (b) the price based
on the yield of an equivalent - term Government of Canada
bond plus a specified yield spread.
I know intuitively that
callable bonds have higher yields than a comparable bullet, but I'm having trouble seeing that
on excel.
How about diminimis gains
on discounted muni
bonds and continuous
callable bonds after a specific year despite the
bonds call date.
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.