FMI Class 4
FMI Class 4
A fixed-payment loan (also called a fully amortized loan), in which the amounts
must be repaid by making the same payment every period (month, quarter),
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consisting of part of the principal and100
interest for a set1 number 1of periods.1
A coupon bond pays the owner of the bond a fixed interest payment (coupon
payment) every year until the maturity
100 date, when10a specified
10 final amount
10 (face
100
value or par value) is repaid.
Default Risk —the risk that a security issuer will default on the security by missing
interest or
principal payment.
Liquidity Risk —the risk that a security cannot be sold at a predictable price with
low transaction
costs at short notice.
Term to Maturity —length of time until maturity. Interest rates are also related to
the term to maturity. This relationship is often called the term structure of interest
rates or the yield curve.
Special Provisions —provisions (e.g., taxability, convertibility, and callability) that
Interest Rate
To examine the effect of default risk on interest rates, let’s look at the
supply-and-demand diagrams for the default-free (Treasury) and
corporate long-term bond markets
1. An increase in default risk shifts the demand curve for corporate
bonds left and
2. shifts the demand curve for Treasury bonds to the right .
This raises the price of Treasury bonds and lowers the price of corporate bonds, and
therefore lowers the interest rate on Treasury bonds and raises the rate on
corporate bonds, thereby increasing the spread between the interest rates on
corporate versus Treasury bonds.
Interest Rate
The nominal interest rate is the interest rate in terms of currency value,
that is usually reported in the newspaper.
Inflation (IP): Increased cost of real goods and services today and buying
these more highly-priced goods and services in the future.
Real Interest Rates (RIR): the interest rate that would exist on security if
no inflation were expected over the holding period. The nominal interest
rate adjusted for inflation.
Real Interest Rate = Nominal Interest Rate – Inflation
If the nominal interest rate is at 4%, and the inflation rate is at 2.5%, the
real interest rate will be 1.5%, because real interest rate = 4% - 2.5% =
1.5%.