A bond whose owner is registered with the bond's issuer. The owner's name and contact information is recorded and kept on file with the company, allowing it to pay the bond's coupon payment to the appropriate person. If the bond is in physical form, the owner's name is printed on the certificate. Most registered bonds are now tracked electronically, using computers to record owners' information. |||Transferring the ownership of a registered bond depends on the way the bond is held. Certificate bonds must be endorsed by the owner before the transfer is complete, while electronic bonds simply need to have the change of information phoned, mailed or faxed to the company.Registered bonds are the opposite of bearer bonds, which contain no information on the owner. Bearer bonds will pay a coupon or the principal to whoever holds the physical certificate.
Retiring an outstanding bond issue at maturity by using money from the sale of a new offering. |||In other words, issuing more bonds to pay off the old bonds that just matured.
The purchase of securities with the agreement to sell them at a higher price at a specific future date. For the party selling the security (and agreeing to repurchase it in the future) it is a repo; for the party on the other end of the transaction (buying the security and agreeing to sell in the future) it is a reverse repurchase agreement. |||Repos are classified as a money-market instrument. They are usually used to raise short-term capital.
A trading strategy that is based upon the yield curve and used for interest rate futures. Investors hope to achieve capital gains by employing this strategy. |||Traders riding the yield curve buy long term bonds with the hopes of making a profit as the yields fall with the declining maturity of the bonds.
A floating-rate note in which the coupon rises when the underlying reference rate falls. The floating rate resets with each coupon payment and may have a cap and/or floor. The underlying reference rate is often the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the rate at which banks can borrow funds from other banks in the London interbank market, the most common benchmark for short-term interest rates. |||For example, the coupon on a reverse floater may be calculated as: principal*(10%-LIBOR). Floaters (bonds or other types of debt whose coupon rate changes with short-term interest rates) are also known as "floating-rate debt." Reverse floaters offer guaranteed principal and are an option for investors looking to benefit from falling interest rates.
A form of revolving credit in which a group of underwriters agrees to provide loans in the event that a borrower is unable to sell in the Eurocurrency market. These loans are generally provided through the purchase of short-term Euronotes. |||A revolving underwriting facility differs from a note issuance facility (NIF) in that the underwriters provide loans instead of purchasing the outstanding notes that failed to sell. In either case, both RUF and NIF provide short- to medium-term credit in the Eurocurrency market.
A synthetic instrument that shares characteristics with both bonds and stocks. Reverse convertible notes typically provide high coupon payments and final payoffs that depend on the performance of an underlying stock. |||RCNs have a face value that matures as shares or cash (this is up to the issuer) and a fixed coupon rate based on bonds. This allows investors to optimize the diversification of their portfolios without necessarily buying both stocks and bonds. However, RCNs typically have high commision fees and are considered by some money managers to be highly risky and even toxic assets.
A bond that can be converted to cash, debt or equity at the discretion of the issuer at a set date. The bond contains an embedded derivative that allows the issuer to put the bond to bondholders at a set date prior to the bond's maturity for existing debt or shares of an underlying company. The underlying company need not be related in any way to the issuer's business. These types of bonds usually have shorter terms to maturity and higher yields than most other bonds because of the risk involved for investors, who may be forced to redeem their bonds for securities in a company that have, or are expected to, decrease substantially in value. |||Reverse convertible bonds are popular with European-based issuers. An example of a reverse convertible bond is a bond that has a period to maturity of two years and allows the bond's issuer - say, a European bank - to redeem the bond at its discretion in shares of a given blue chip by the maturity date. These bonds have high yields of around 15-20%.
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