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- Canada Premium Bonds
- This article explains that whether you're saving for a family vacation, a down payment on a house, a child's education or for your retirement, it's important to include secure investments as part of your financial plan, and this can be done by New Canada Savings Bonds. Canada Premium Bonds CPBs...
- White papers 2003-09-09
- Canada Savings Bonds
- This article explains that whether you're saving for a family vacation, a down payment on a house, a child's education or for your retirement, it's important to include secure investments as part of your financial plan, and this can be done by New Canada Savings Bonds. Canada Savings Bonds offer...
- White papers 2003-09-09
- Upgrading Your Deposit Pricing Process II – Using Effective Pricing Tools
- This article asserts the short-term rates. It does not take a crystal ball or a doctorate in economics to predict that rates will rise -- sooner or later. The economy rebounds, accompanied by a recovery in the stock market. Some of the MMDA and savings account balances -- that accumulated...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- What Risk Premium Is "Normal"?
- In the current circumstance, in which stocks appear to have a near-zero or negative risk premium relative to government bonds, is abnormal in the extreme. Even if one percent is added to the risk premium, to allow for the impact of stock buybacks, today's risk premium relative to the more...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- The Investment Implications Of Lower Stock Return Prospects
- In the past two years, several noted scholars have concluded that long-run real U.S. stock returns will likely be below historical levels. This article summarizes these predictions, and discusses their implications for individual investors. The average prediction was about 4% real returns. Today's yields on Treasury Inflation Protection Securities indicate...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- The Choice Of Neutral Net Duration For A Bond Portfolio
- This article describes the Investigation of the Optimal Duration of a Bond Portfolio for a Risk Averse Investor. In setting the neutral benchmark for a fixed income portfolio, few decisions are as open to debate as the issue of the neutral duration. For the currency decision, there are established guidelines,...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Common Determinants of Bond and Stock Market Liquidity : The Impact of Financial Crises, Monetary Policy, and Mutual Fund Flows
- Article discusses a study related to common determinants of daily bid-ask spreads and trading volume for the bond and stock markets over the 1991-98 period. It was found that spread changes in one market are affected by lagged spread and volume changes in both markets. Further, spread and volume changes...
- White papers 2001-12-11
- The Equilibrium Distributions Of Value For Risky Stocks And Bonds
- Within a unified theory for stocks and corporate bonds, based on dynamic optimization by the investors, this article derives analytical expressions for the momentary distributions of the expected price, respectively known as approximate lognormal with systematic deviations and double exponential. Market equibilirum is regarded as a dynamic equilibrium characterized by...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- When Accrued Dividends Become Capital Gains
- From the executive summary: ‘When a bond is purchased and sold between interest payment dates, the portion of the purchase price attributable to interest that has accrued to the date of purchase is treated as interest income to the seller of the bond. As a result, the buyer treats the...
- White papers 2002-08-21
- Default and Information
- The recent string of accounting scandals highlights the need for bond investors to reconsider the informational assumptions underlying traditional models of default. In the models presented in this paper, it is implicitly assumed that the information used to calibrate and run the model is publicly available. In reality, model inputs...
- White papers 2003-06-11
- To Convert or Not to Convert
- Sometimes referred to as CVs, convertible bonds can, as the name implies, convert from one form to another. When first issued, they act just like regular corporate bonds, albeit with a slightly lower interest rate. At this point, they represent debt on the company's balance sheet. The difference is that...
- White papers
- Why European Firms Issue Convertible Debt
- Why convertible bonds are such a popular financing vehicle has been a puzzling phenomenon for financial researchers. This paper examines the characteristics of convertible bonds listed on the European exchanges as well as survey managers of the issuer firms to gain some insights into this issue. The preliminary analysis shows...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Breaking the Bond Barrier: How Fixed-Income Investors Can Build a Better Future
- The stock market has been the focus of almost all the hype the past few years. But in the 1990's, soaring valuations, made stocks just too rich for the appetites of many investors. The following article shows how conservative investors can increase their expected performance, along with their risk levels,...
- White papers
- Breaking the Bond Barrier: How Fixed-Income Investors Can Build a Better Future
- The stock market has been the focus of almost all the hype the past few years. But in the 1990's, soaring valuations, made stocks just too rich for the appetites of many investors. In the following article, we show how conservative investors can increase their expected performance, along with their...
- White papers
- A Model for Pricing Stocks and Bonds
- This paper develops a traceable, dynamic, arbitrage-free model capable of jointly pricing a cross section of bonds and stocks. The bond-pricing portion of the model produces the standard affine term-structure equations. The paper then shows that a particular choice of dividend process, characterized by affine dividend yields, leads to stock...
- White papers 2002-04-23
- International Banking and Financial Market Developments
- This document provides an overview on international banking and financial market developments during the year 2000. The most volatile markets as the stock markets particularly those trading technology stocks. This volatility seems to have taken its toll on investors' willingness to bear risk. Credit spreads widened by more than could...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Entrepreneurial Finance With Heterogeneous Investors
- This paper presents a model of cash constrained entrepreneurs, who raise money from uninformed investors such as shareholders or bond holders, or from informed investors like venture capitalists or banks. There is a moral hazard problem, which can be partially overcome through monitoring by informed investors. However, monitoring is only...
- White papers 2004-07-07
- Why Conduct an Asset/Liability Study?
- For many defined benefit pension plans, the 2000-2002 negative asset returns and low bond yields have caused undesirable financial results and consequently, in most cases, a reduced level of funded status. Being forewarned can be critical to meeting regulatory requirements, producing acceptable financial results, and remaining within budget. This article...
- White papers 2003-11-10
- Stocks, Bonds, Money Markets and Exchange Rates: Measuring International Financial Transmission
- The paper presents a framework for analyzing the degree of financial transmission between money, bond and equity markets and exchange rates within and between the United States and the euro area. It finds that asset prices react strongest to other domestic asset price shocks, and that there are also substantial...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- The Evolution of Global Fixed Income Markets
- This paper describes how changes in the issuance of debt around the globe have created more opportunities for higher returns at lower levels of risk for investors. Increases in the issuance and liquidity of global corporate bonds and other spread sectors have led many investors to make a strategic move...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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