Benchmark Bond Offering Case Belgacom The Inaugural Institutional Benchmark Bond Offering Alizée Hardy Orea Lika Rossella Miccolis Yasmine Nouri Margaux Vandenbossche For Lecturer Yassine Boudghene Assistant Quentin Bodart Case context § In 2006 Belgacom acquisition of the remaining 25% stake in Proximus that Vodafone owned. § Consideration was EUR 2bn § Financed by cash and EUR 1.8bn “1y bridge loan facility” § The debt is taken out by issuing bond § First bond offering
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stability. At the same time‚ Bear concentrated its business on CDOs‚ which means it had high exposure to this item. Thus when credit crisis happened‚ it is significantly impacted. And in early 2008‚ Moody’s downgraded 163 tranches of mortgage backed bonds issued by Bear. Almost everyone realized that Bear will face liquidity problem. But meanwhile‚ Bear highly relied on repo to finance itself. When lender lost confidence in Bear‚ it failed in finding another effective way to find cash. In sum‚ the
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Briefly explain why many corporations prefer to issue callable long-term corporate bonds rather than non-callable long-term bonds. There are three main reasons why a corporation may be interested in calling a bond. * Interest rates have fallen‚ so they can refinance at a lower rate. * Credit quality has improved‚ so they can refinance at a lower rate. * Assets have been sold‚ so money is available to pay off debt. If a bond issuer pays investors the going rate of 7% annually in interest‚ and then the
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transaction costs and at prices that reflect supply and demand. Securities include stocks and bonds‚ and commodities include precious metals or agricultural goods. The project “Investment in Financial Markets” gives a brief idea regarding the various investment options that are prevailing in the financial markets in India. With lots of investment options like banks‚ Fixed Deposits‚ Government bonds‚ stock market‚ real estate‚ gold and mutual funds the common investor ends up more confused
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_______________ 1. The invoice price of a bond is the ______. A. stated or flat price in a quote sheet plus accrued interest B. stated or flat price in a quote sheet minus accrued interest C. bid price D. average of the bid and ask price 2. A mortgage bond is _______. A. secured by other securities held by the firm B. secured by equipment owned by the firm C. secured by property owned by the firm D. unsecured 3. You buy a TIPS at issue at par for $1‚000. The bond has a 3% coupon. Inflation turns
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Minimize capital gain tax on stock sale: new BHV based in BriOsh Virgin Islands will issue bonds and sell them at the book value ‐ AQract foreign investors ‐ Receive financing for company’s acOviOes 09/11/2011 8 Advantages for the shareholders: ‐ Minimizing bankruptcy costs ‐ in case of financial distress exchanging bonds to exchange property may stave off bankruptcy (this is the special feature of exchangeable bonds‚ converOble bonds do not bear this advantage) Dispose of the shares without paying 30% capital gain tax
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Bond & Free Analysis “Bond and Free” by Robert Frost personifies two entities “Love” and “Thought” as if they exist and exhibit qualities of human beings‚ rather than being effects of the human heart and mind. Frost uses capitalization to begin each entity as if each were formal given names of each entity. Frost begins by referring to Love. Love is described as being grounded and clinging to the earth. It has “circling arms about”. With these descriptions‚ Frost conveys that Love is needy and
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on the face of the bond. It is used to compute the amount of cash interest paid to the bondholder. The market rate is the rate of return expected by investors who purchase the bonds. The market rate determines the market price of the bond. It incorporates the current risk-free rate‚ expectations about the relative riskiness of the borrower‚ and the rate of inflation. In general‚ there is an inverse relation between the bond’s market rate and the bond’s market price. Q7-4. Bonds are reported at historical
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Problems (5-5) A Treasury bond that matures in 10 years has a yield of 6%. A 10-year corporate bond has a yield of 9%. Assume that the liquidity premium on the corporate bond is 0.5%. What is the default risk premium on the corporate bond? Maturity = 10 years rtbond = 6% rcbond = 9% liquidity premium = 0.5% rd= r* + IP + DRP + LP + MRP Default Risk Premium (DRP) = 9% - 6% + 0.5% = 2.5% (5-7) Renfro Rentals has issued bonds that have a 10% coupon rate‚ payable semiannually. The bonds mature in 8 years‚ have
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factors to desistance such as Social Control Theory‚ also known as Social Bond theory. According to the Social Bond Theory‚ the bond between individual and the people around them are important in the support of preventing and controlling the individual from reoffending (Hirschi‚ 1969). There are 4 factors in the social bond theory which are; attachment‚ commitment‚ belief and involvement (Vold et al.‚ 2002). Attachment is the bond between the individual and the people around such as family and friends
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