ACCT 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Credit Risk, N60 Road (Ireland)
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It is the coupon rate makes the bonds different. Coupon rate the fixed rate of interest paid by a bond: do not confuse with market interest rate on the bond (another name, yield to maturity (ytm), that is the rate of return required by bond holders) . In the past, bonds had coupons attached (bearer bonds), today they are registered . All but zero-coupon issues pay interest, called coupon payments. Annual coupon payments= coupon rate * par value. If a bond has an 8 percent coupon and a par value of 1,000, it pays annual interest of (1,000 * 0. 08) = per year, 80/2=40 per period (if semiannually). Sum of present value of all future expected cash flows. Default risk: risk that issuer will not make interest or principal payments. For a bond, all future expected cash flows are those coupon payments, and the final face value (par value).