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Bond Crowd
Definition: Members of the stock exchange who transact bond orders on the floor of the exchange.
Bond Discount
Definition: The difference by which a bond's market price is lower than its face value. The antithesis of a bond premium, which prevails when the market price of a bond is higher than its face value. See: Original issue discount.
Bond Equivalent Yield
Definition: Bond yield calculated on an annual percentage rate method. Differs from annual effective yield.
Bond Fund
Definition: A mutual fund that emphasizes income—consistent with risk, rather than growth—by investing in corporate, municipal, or US government debt obligations, or some combination of them.
Bond Indenture
Definition: Contract that sets forth the promises of a bond issuer and the rights of investors.
Bond Indexing
Definition: Designing a bond portfolio so that its performance will match the performance of some bond index.
Bond Market Association
Definition: An international trade association of broker/dealers and banks in US government and federal agency securities, municipal securities, mortgage-backed securities, and money market securities.
Bond Mutual Fund
Definition: A mutual fund which primarily or exclusively holds bonds.
Bond Of Indemnity
Definition: An insurance policy that indemnifies the corporation, the shareholder and the Transfer Agent against any and all claims arising from the replacement by the Transfer Agent of certificates lost or stolen.
Bond Points
Definition: A conventional unit of measure for bond prices set at $1 and equivalent to 1% of the $100 face value of the bond. A price of 80 means that the bond is selling at 80% of its face or par value.
Bond Power
Definition: A form used in the transfer of registered bonds from one owner to a different owner.
Bond Rating
Definition: A rating based on the possibility of default by a bond issuer. The ratings range from AAA (highly unlikely to default) to D (in default). See: Rating, investment grade.
Bond Ratio
Definition: The percentage of a company's capitalization represented by bonds. The ratio is calculated by dividing the total bonds due after one year by that same figure plus all other equity. See: Debt-to-equity-ratio.
Bond Swap
Definition: The sale of one bond issue and purchase of another bond issue simultaneously. See: Swap; swap order.
Bond Value
Definition: With respect to convertible bonds, the value the security would have if it were not convertible. That is, the market value of the bond minus the value of the conversion option.
Bond-equivalent Basis
Definition: The method used for computing the bond-equivalent yield.
Bondholder
Definition: A firm often has stockholders and bondholders. In a liquidation, the bondholders have first priority.
BONDPAR
Definition: A system that monitors and evaluates the performance of a fixed income portfolio, as well as the individual securities held in the portfolio. BONDPAR decomposes the return into the elements beyond the manager's control--such as the interest rate environment and client-imposed duration policy constraints--and those that the management process contributes to, such as interest rate management, sector/quality allocations, and individual bond selection.
Bonds Enabling Annual Retirement Savings (BEARS)
Definition: Holders of BEARS receive the face value of the bonds underlying call option, which is exercised by CUBS (an acronym for Calls Underwritten by Swanbrook). If the calls are exercised by CUBS, BEARS holders receive the total of the exercise price.
Boning
Definition: Charging a lot more for an asset than its worth.
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