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The global convertible bond market is relatively small, with about 400 billion USD (as of Jan 2013, excluding synthetics). As a comparison, the straight corporate bond market would be about 14,000 billion USD. Among those 400 billion, about 320 billion USD are "Vanilla" convertible bonds, the largest sub-segment of the asset class.
A corporate bond is a bond issued by a corporation in order to raise financing for a variety of reasons such as to ongoing operations, mergers & acquisitions, or to expand business. [1] The term sometimes also encompasses bonds issued by supranational organizations (such as European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ).
Disadvantages of corporate bonds. Fixed payment. A bond’s interest rate is set when the bond is issued, and that’s all you’re going to get. If it’s a fixed-rate bond, you’ll know all the ...
Moody's Aaa Corporate Bond, also known as "Moody's Aaa" for short is an investment bond that acts as an index of the performance of all bonds given an Aaa rating by Moody's Investors Service. This corporate bond is often used in macroeconomics as an alternative to the federal ten-year Treasury Bill as an indicator of the interest rate.
Municipal bonds, and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are excluded, due to tax treatment issues. The index includes Treasury securities, Government agency bonds, Mortgage-backed bonds, Corporate bonds, and a number of foreign bonds traded in U.S. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index is an intermediate term index.
The J.P.Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global ("EMBI Global") tracks total returns for traded external debt instruments in the emerging markets, and is an expanded version of the JPMorgan EMBI+. As with the EMBI+, the EMBI Global includes U.S.dollar-denominated Brady bonds , loans, and Eurobonds with an outstanding face value of at least ...
Bonds are more frequently traded than loans, although not as often as equity. Nearly all of the average daily trading in the U.S. bond market takes place between broker-dealers and large institutions in a decentralized over-the-counter (OTC) market. [3] However, a small number of bonds, primarily corporate ones, are listed on exchanges.