Treasury Notes and Bonds
Treasury Notes and Bonds
Treasury Notes and Bonds
CAPITAL MARKET
- A market where long-term securities are traded.
DEBT MARKET
- A market where debt instruments/securities are traded.
- Where fixed-income instruments are traded.
- Bond Market
1. Treasury Notes and Bonds
- Long-term instrument
- Issued by the Government, particularly Bureau of Treasury.
- Coupon
- Tenor – time to mature of a financial instrument – 2 – 10 years
- High interest rate risk
2. Mortgages
- A loan secured by a real estate property.
3. Municipal bonds
- A bond issued by a local government.
4. Corporate Bonds
- Bonds issued by a corporation.
5. Finance Lease
- A loan for the purchase of an equipment.
- The lender is the owner of the purchased equipment.
EQUITY MARKET
- A market where equity instruments are traded
- Instruments of ownership
- Stock Market
6. Preferred Stocks/Preference shares
- The corporation guarantees a particular dividend payment.
- A class of ownership that has a higher claim on assets and earnings.
7. Common Stocks/Ordinary Shares
- As security that represents ownership in a corporation.
- Receives whatever assets remain after creditors, bondholders and preferred stockholders are
paid.
HYBRID MARKET
- Financial Institution that has the characteristics of a debt and equity at the same time.
8. Convertible Bonds
- Bonds with a characteristic that can be converted into a predetermined number of ordinary
shares
FINANCIAL TRENDS
1. Technology
- Webification – everything happens on the internet
2. Globalization
- Competition is global.
- More international transaction
- Interconnectedness
- Interdependence
3. Deregulation - Reregulation
- Lowering of regulations for the financial market
4. Competition
- Is a result of 3 things 1. Deregulation 2. Globalization 3. Technology
5. Complexity
- Since there is a competition in the market, adding more features to the instrument makes it
more complex.
6. Innovation
- Introducing a new product that meets the demand of the market.
7. Speed
- Fast moving market
8. Conglomerate
- Financial institution that offers a large number of services of different financial services
9. Derivatives
- Contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying
financial asset or security or set of asset or index.
10. Speculation
- It is the purchase of a security with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near
future.