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A Primer on Bonds Valuation
If you follow the bond market, you can observe that prices of bonds are generally decreasing when the economic news are good and increasing when negative. An understanding of this typical valuation of bonds can explain the phenomena.
After reading this docu...
Author: Schoeffel Oliver, 15-05-08
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Performance Surety Bonds
Surety bonds are a contractual agreement between three parties. The issuer of the bond (the surety) joins with the second party (the principal) in guaranteeing to a third party (the obligee) the fulfillment of an obligation on the part of the principal. A typi...
Author: stickystebee, 14-05-08
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Help with Surety Bonds
What is a surety bond? People ask this every time when they are mentioned and understandably so as it’s not a very common term. There are many different types of surety bonds from corporate surety bonds, mortgage bonds and insurance bonds to court bonds, con...
Author: stickystebee, 14-05-08
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What are Surety Bonds?
In this article I am attempting to describe and explain what exactly a surety bond is and when people use them, because I for one was completely lost first time I heard of them. Surety bonds originated in the U.S hundreds of years ago as a mechanism through wh...
Author: stickystebee, 14-05-08
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Bonds - A Beginners Guide To Making Money From Investing In Bonds
Bond is a debt instrument, where the issuer acknowledges debt owed to the holder and is responsible to repay the principal as well as the interest upon the maturity. Bonds are generally issued by the corporations and differ from the equity shares and stocks....
Author: Matthew Tutt, 06-05-08
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Fatal Seduction Of The Municipal Bond Insurers
With the crunching of credit and meltdown of the mortgage market in 2007, the "golden age" of municipal bond insurance is likely over. Municipal bond insurance got its start as a way to protect investors if their bond issuer defaulted. But as the industry matu...
Author: Rich White, 17-04-08
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Why banks can’t afford to save the bond insurers
Arty types often like to sneer at those involved in the financial sector, dismissing them as dull grey ‘suits’.
But recent events have shown that, when they put their minds to it, the ‘suits’ can be far more creative than the media studies students of...
Author: John Stepek, 09-04-08
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Equity market's loss is bond market's gain
The equity market’s loss is the bond market’s gain. Sharp falls on global equity markets have encouraged investors to re-appraise the outlook for volatility and look again at potentially defensive bolt-holes. Short-term investors may have been reducing equ...
Author: Jeremy Batstone, 09-04-08
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Why bond managers are seeking alpha in Mongolia
Beating the market – the search for "alpha" – takes sharp thinking and a fast trigger finger. Just ask Nicole Montoya, a fund manager with AXA in Paris.
Back in October, she spotted that the cost of insuring bonds issued by Altadis, the cigar and cigarett...
Author: Adrian Ash, 09-04-08
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Higher rates leave bonds looking pricey
UK bonds look unattractive. Even bond fund managers admit that – they “will be a poor investment in the medium term”, says Dennis Gould, head of fixed income at Axa, quoted in The Observer, who isn’t putting any in his personal portfolio. The problem i...
Author: Graham Buck, 09-04-08
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