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AFM121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Commercial Paper, Interest Rate Risk, Floating Charge

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University of Waterloo
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Accounting & Financial Management
Course
AFM121
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Garvin Blair

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Fixed-income security: provides a known income stream to the holder and has a. Traditional provides interim payments of interest for dividends. Discounted: sold at a discount from their face value. Return: increase in principal value (treated as income for tax purposes) Debt instruments that are secured by real assets. Bond trust indenture: represents a legal contract between the bondholders and bond issuers. Interest based on coupon rate - may be fixed or floating. Debentures - similar to bonds, but are generally unsecured. Prices are quoted on an index with a base value of 100: 100 = par or face value. Trade above par = premium, below par = discount. Face value = amount issuer will pay at maturity. Marketable bonds: those for which there is a ready market. Floating rate bonds or debentures have (cid:522)adjustable(cid:523) coupons that are typically tied to t-bill rates or other short-term interest rate. Protection in times of volatile interest rates.

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The (-Select- A. discount B. premium C. par) value of a bond is its stated face value or maturity value, and its coupon interest rate is the stated annual interest rate on the bond. The maturity date is the date on which the par value must be repaid. A (-Select- A. call B. redemption C. sinking) provision gives the issuer the right to redeem the bonds under specified terms prior to their normal maturity date, although not all bonds have this provision. Some bonds have (-Select- A. redemption fund B. sinking fund C. call fund) provisions which require the issuer to systematically retire a portion of the bond issue each year. Because sinking fund provisions facilitate their orderly retirement, bonds with these provisions are regarded as being (-Select-A. riskier B. safer C. equivalent) so they will have (-Select- A. lower B. equivalent C. higher) coupon rates than similar bonds without these provisions.

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