The purchase was made at an average discount of 62.6 percent to the face amount of the notes and
a yield to maturity of more than 40.0 percent.
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.
A bond premium reduces
the yield to maturity of the bond, while a bond discount enhances its yield.
The investor's average annual compounded return over a holding period (e.g. 5 years) should correspond to
yield to maturity of a corresponding SGS (e.g. 5 year SGS).
For example, the iShares DEX Universe Bond Index Fund (XBB - TSX) has a weighted average coupon of 4.01 per cent but a weighted average
yield to maturity of just 2.22 per cent.
PIMCO lists an estimated
yield to maturity of 3.78 %.
Now consider a discount bond that pays a coupon of 2 % and has the same
yield to maturity of 3 %: now, in addition to the interest payments, you'd net a 1 % capital gain at maturity, and your total pre-tax return would again be 3 %.
This in turn does not appropriately reflect
the Yield to Maturity of the underlying asset as it approaches par value at maturity.
ZAG has an Average Duration of 7.36 years with an effective
yield to maturity of 2.59 %.
He found VBG has an average Duration of 7.8 years, with an effective
yield to maturity of 0.96 % while VBU has an Average Duration of 6.1 years with an effective
yield to maturity of 2.94 %.
On the contrary, all three GIC ladders offer rates significantly higher than
the yield to maturity of CLF.
The Vanguard Short - Term Bond ETF (TSX: VSB) has
a yield to maturity of 1.3 %.
If you're willing to take on more credit risk, you can opt for the Vanguard Short - Term Corporate Bond ETF (TSX: VSC), which has
a yield to maturity of 2.0 %.
A yield to maturity of at least 500 basis points more than performing credits of comparable quality.
The floating rate senior loans tracked in this index have a weighted average
yield to maturity of 4.76 %.
Average yield to Maturity - Average Yield to Maturity represents the weighted average
yield to maturity of a Fund's investments in money market securities and short - term fixed income securities as of a specified date.
You'll also see that
he yield to maturity of CBO is almost identical at 2.29 %.
The problem is, the iShares DEX Short Term Bond (XSB) has
a yield to maturity of just 1.38 % these days — once you deduct fees, that's less than a savings account at an online bank.
Today, a traditional bond index exchange - traded fund (ETF) with an average term of about 10 years has
a yield to maturity of about 1.7 %.
Again,
the yield to maturity of XCB is virtually the same as the comparable RBC fund: in this case, 3.25 % versus 3.21 %.
As recently as this April, the DEX Universe Bond Index had
a yield to maturity of about 2.1 %, while today it's over 2.9 %.
Reinvestment risk is more likely when interest rates are declining and affects
the yield to maturity of a bond, which is calculated on the premise that all future coupon payments will be reinvested at the interest rate in effect when the bond was first purchased.
If both bonds are held for the full four years, their total return will be the same: in other words, both now have
a yield to maturity of 3 %:
LTPZ has
a yield to maturity of 2.9 % and an average coupon rate of 1.5 %.
When it matures on 8/1/2026, you get $ 100 for each share you buy, which comes out to
a yield to maturity of 3.2 %.
A 10 - year government bond today sports
a yield to maturity of around 1 %.
Aug 7 (Reuters)- Ddr Corp: DDR prices $ 350 million offering of 3.900 percent senior unsecured notes.DDR Corp - notes are being offered to investors at a price of 99.703 percent with
a yield to maturity of 3.949 percent.
Not exact matches
Government bonds could help reduce default risk, but because
of the length
of maturity required
to earn any meaningful
yield, they do little
to reduce duration risk - i.e. the overall sensitivity
of a portfolio
to interest rate rises.
The
yield curve - the plot
of all
of the
yields on Treasury securities
of maturities from four weeks
to 30 years - is used as a signal
of economic health
of the economy.
Second, the average time
to maturity on U.S. debt is six years, meaning that most
of the low -
yielding bonds now on the books will be exchanged for more expensive debt over the next decade.
Anticipation
of these fund outflows is contributing
to rising
yields on shorter
maturities.
The
yield on a Treasury bill represents the return an investor will receive by holding the bond
to maturity, and should be monitored closely as an indicator
of the government debt situation.
debt obligations
of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various
maturities; revenue from these bonds is used
to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit
of the U.S. government, they are generally considered
to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower
yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject
to federal taxes and may be subject
to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions
the percentage
of return an investor receives based on the amount invested or on the current market value
of holdings; it is expressed as an annual percentage rate;
yield stated is the
yield to worst — the
yield if the worst possible bond repayment takes place, reflecting the lower
of the
yield to maturity or the
yield to call based on the previous close
Yields on U.S. 30 - year bonds, which are more sensitive than shorter
maturities to the outlook for inflation, have jumped almost 40 basis points since last Friday and a $ 15 billion auction
of the tenor on Thursday showed waning appetite for the securities.
If you plan
to hold
to maturity you have
to be willing
to forego the possibility
of higher
yields assuming rates rise, but then again you don't get dinged on the lower price
of the security.
Yield Curve: Graph showing the comparative
yields of securities in a particular class according
to maturity.
«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.
SHYL tracks an index
of USD - denominated high -
yield corporate bonds with 0
to 5 years remaining
to maturity.
The fund typically favors longer
maturities than our benchmark and tends
to lean toward riskier paper, both
of which increase
yield.
So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer
maturity bonds perform fairly well from these
yield levels, over the long - term they're likely
to be a poor investment in terms
of earning a decent return over the rate
of inflation.
Backtests
of an indicator using the
yield curve (which is anything but random, owing
to Federal Reserve control
of the short end) show that some value can be added using this indicator
to adjust
maturities.
The Fund currently holds primarily Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (which currently price in expectations
of zero inflation for the next decade or more, while reflecting reasonably high inflation - adjusted
yields to maturity).
I pour the morning cup
of mud, schlep out
to the stoop
to get my paper, and open my WSJ
to learn that the
yield curve is awfully flat (i.e., the difference between the interest rates
of bonds
of different
maturities is low).
At that time, the 10 - year Treasury bond had a duration
of just 6 years (due
to the very high coupon payments and
yield -
to -
maturity available), while the S&P 500 had an extraordinarily low duration
of just 16 years.
TLH offers intentionally truncated exposure
to the long end
of the
yield curve due
to its 10 - 20 year
maturity bracket.
Removal
of stocks from the index due
to maturity, redemption, call features or conversion may cause a decrease in the
yield of the index and the Fund.
High -
yield bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year to matu
yield bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High
Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year to matu
Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating
of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year
to maturity.
Bond Statistic Average
Yield to Maturity: A weighted average of all the fund's bond holding's yield to maturi
Yield to Maturity: A weighted average
of all the fund's bond holding's
yield to maturi
yield to maturities.
The shape
of the
yield curve continues
to imply a further «parallel shift» upward, with
yields rising at all
maturities.