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Finance: What is maturity?
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Maturity is, quite simply, the date when a debt becomes due. As for our maturity, well... we're still giggling about the word "due."

Finance: What are Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (FNMA)?
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What are Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? They sound like snack cakes to us, so, uh...maybe we should watch this video.

Finance: What are Bond Anticipation Notes, Revenue Anticipation Bonds, and Tax Anticipation Notes?
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What are Bond Anticipation Notes (BANS), Revenue Anticipation Notes (RANS), and Tax Anticipation Notes (TANS)? BANS, RANS and TANS are all short-te...

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Finance: What is a zero coupon bond? 15 Views


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What is a zero coupon bond? Zero coupon bonds are an interesting investment because they don’t pay any interest. They are only desirable because they can be bought at huge discounts, so after the investor waits it out and cashes in at maturity, they usually make a decent profit.

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Finance allah shmoop What is a zero coupon bond After

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all this time our hero remains zero Yeah dude all

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right well there was a whole song about him and

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your parentsgeneration Just ask him The coupon on a bond

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is its dividend or yield payment also known as the

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rent paid by the corporation or government or individual who's

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Borrowing that money sofa bond has zero coupon Does that

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mean the rental of that capital is free Uh no

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not at all Isiro coupon bond with par value of

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a thousand might sell initially for say seven hundred twenty

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dollars iy a big discount to that grand the bonds

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interest is on ly paid cumulatively at the very end

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when the person who loaned the seven hundred twenty dollars

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gets his grand back that's it it's a one time

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payment of a thousand bucks so many years later like

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a decade of that bond yielding a bit over three

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point three percent if you did the math of compounding

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well this is what it would look like Note that

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the amount owed at the end of the year is

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mohr than what was owed the previous year and that

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the interest is charged than on that amount Well in

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real life these calculations are done twice a year with

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bonds that is every six months the interest rates are

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charged Zero coupon bonds yield notably more than normal bonds

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which pay interests every six months Why Why With zero

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coupon bonds yield mohr risk in paying some interest at

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least some each six month period Well the bondholders getting

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something back along the way and over time the interest

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payments can be More than the principal loaned itself So

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with zero coupon bonds Well there's Just a one time

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payment at the very end So you'd better hope the

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person showing you that money doesn't You know just decide

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to skip town a week before the principal and interest

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combined Or do speaking of which i've got a flight 00:02:00.288 --> [endTime] to catch No

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