Catastrophe Bonds By Kirill Graminschi The trouble with Catastrophe Bonds The article presents the difficulties insurance companies face when they are issuing catastrophe bonds. Do they efficiently hedge against large-scale disasters? It is very difficult hedging against catastrophic losses. Japan’s March earthquake‚ tsunami and nuclear disaster threat could cost the insurance industry between $21 and $34 billion. The catastrophe bonds are not helping much the insurance companies‚ although
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Excerpt from FS Series #1: enabling sub-sovereign bond issuances B3. Case 3: Alternative Financing for Water Utilities — Lessons from a Failed Bond Issue in Indonesia B3a. Background and Environment PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE WATER SECTOR HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ABSENT IN INDONESIA. ACHIEVING INDONESIA’S MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL‚ TO HALVE THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE WITHOUT SUSTAINABLE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER AND BASIC SANITATION BY 2015‚ WOULD REQUIRE A TENFOLD ANNUAL INCREASE IN INVESTMENTS
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chapter 6 1. The security of the bond‚ that is‚ whether the bond has collateral. Effect on the coupon rate of the bond issue: Bond’s with collateral will have lower coupon rate as bondholders have claim on collateral no matter what. Advantage: It provides an asset which lower default risk. Disadvantage: Companies cannot sell this collateral as an asset and need to maintain it. 2. The seniority of the bond Effect on the coupon rate of the bond issue: The more senior the bond‚ the lower
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Chapter 8 Valuing Bonds 8-1. A 30-year bond with a face value of $1000 has a coupon rate of 5.5%‚ with semiannual payments. a. What is the coupon payment for this bond? b. Draw the cash flows for the bond on a timeline. a. The coupon payment is: [pic] b. The timeline for the cash flows for this bond is (the unit of time on this timeline is six-month periods): [pic] 8-2. Assume that a bond will make payments every six months as
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Abacus Inc. has asked you price a 5 year bullet bond issue for them‚ with Price‚ Yield to Maturity and Modified Duration. There are no comparable existing issues in the secondary market either by Abacus or a competitor and so you will need to price the issue from scratch. You have the following set of US Treasury bond data and consultations with your Bank Equity Analyst and Debt Analyst suggest that a Z-spread for Abacus of 200 bps over Treasuries and a coupon rate of 6.5% should be appropriate
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Balance of payments (BoP) accounts are an accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of the world.[1] These transactions include payments for the country’s exports and imports of goods‚ services‚ financial capital‚ and financial transfers. The BoP accounts summarize international transactions for a specific period‚ usually a year‚ and are prepared in a single currency‚ typically the domestic currency for the country concerned. Sources of funds for a nation‚ such
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US Savings Bond A US savings bond is a security issued by the US treasury and began being issued during president Roosevelt’s presidency in 1935. A month after the president sign the legislation‚ the first savings bond was issued with a purchase price of 18.75‚ but a face value of $25. These first bonds were eventually nicknamed “the baby bonds”. When bonds first became big was during the US’s involvement with WWII in 1941. These bond were called the Series E Defense bonds and they went towards
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whether equity capital or borrowed money. To economist- capital would be all productive assets used in the business excluding non-productive assets Capitalization- refers to the sum of the face or par value of all outstanding stocks and bonds issued by the corporation. In case of no par value stocks the value carried in the balance sheet will be used. This can be computed by adding to the capital stock all bonded indebtedness issued by the corporation. Un-issued capital stock – this is a portion of
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CHARACTERISTIC OF BONDS AND STOCKS 1.0 Bonds A bond is a promissory note issued by a business or a governmental unit. Treasury bonds‚ sometimes referred to as government bonds‚ are issued by the Federal government and are not exposed to default risk. Corporate bonds are issued by corporations and are exposed to default risk. Different corporate bonds have different levels of default risk‚ depending on the issuing company ’s characteristics and on the terms of the specific bond. Municipal bonds are issued
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LECTURE 7 BOND VALUATION CLASS QUESTIONS Information for 1 & 2 Consider the following $1‚000 par value zero-coupon bonds: Bond Years to Maturity Price A 1 $909.09 B 2 $811.62 C 3 $711.78 D 4 $635.52 1). The yield to maturity on bond A is . a. 10% b. 11% c. 12% d. 14%
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