Keep in mind that municipal securities are subject to a number of risks including, but not limited to: Interest Rate Risk, the risk that the market value of fixed-income securities may fluctuate when interest rates change, and Prepayment Risk, the risk that the issuers of individual securities may prepay them at a time when interest rates have declined.
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Interest rate risk is the risk that interest rates will change significantly from what the investor expected.
Primarily based on Eurodollars, U.S. Treasuries, swaps and other dollar-related instruments that customers can utilize to manage short, medium and long term interest rate risk, interest rate contracts are the largest class of financial products traded on CME Group.
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He further pointed out that some bond investors are viewing credit risk (the chances of a company defaulting on its debt) as less of a concern than interest rate risk (the chances of interest rates rising).
One major risk (other than the obvious interest rate risk) for swap investors is that of counterparty risk.
Keener risk-aversion this week has also limited buying interest in risk assets, including the raw commodities.
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Bonds and loan prices are complicated by other factors, such as liquidity, currency risk and interest-rate risk.
Credit derivatives have made it easier to separate the credit risk (the danger of default) of bonds from the interest rate risk.
While immune from credit risk, Agency MREITs have their own financial kryptonite in the form of interest rate risk.
Interest rate risk is inherent to all fixed income and, after a decade of declining yields, rising interest rates will cut into portfolio total returns.
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There are many other potential problems associated with municipal bonds, including interest rate risk, and although they are federally tax-free, other state and local taxes may apply and interest income may be subject to the alternative minimum tax.
Osterweis Strategic Income has more credit risk but lower interest-rate risk (due to shorter average duration) than some intermediate-term bond funds.
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Interest rate risk, tax risk, business risk, purchasing power risk are all types of risk.
You could reduce your interest rate risk by going for a shorter-term bond.
Institutional investors turned up their noses on hybrid bonds, hesitant to take the interest rate risk if LIBOR remained minimal.
You could look to put some of that cash into loans, adding potential returns without taking incremental interest rate risk.
Until the Great Recession, the Fed limited its purchases of Treasury paper to short-term bills that carry no interest rate risk.
So how can individual investors hedge their portfolios against interest rate risk?
If you are willing to buy individual bonds, you can also build a ladder with bonds of differing maturities to offset future interest rate risk.
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Consider reducing your interest rate risk while increasing your credit risk.
These shares carry not only company risk, but also interest-rate risk.
The quite popular Black-Scholes calculator figures the value of warrants using current price, strike price, time until expiry, interest rate risk and share volatility as variables.
All things equal, for typical bonds the longer the maturity the higher the duration (or price volatility from interest rate movements), and the smaller the coupon the higher the interest rate risk.
Snowling ticks off other advantages for Sallie: low interest rate risk (given government guarantees), profit growth expectations in the 15% range, a rich return on equity (net income divided by average book value) of 38%, and a cheap valuation relative to history and the broader market.
The President's proposal would put limits on the size and scope of the U.S. banking sector in the interest of addressing risk management and conflict-of-interest concerns.
Adding to the complexity is the need for both Fannie and Freddie to insure their portfolios against interest-rate risk in particular, the danger that borrowers may pay back their loans early, if interest rates fall, leaving the companies with money to reinvest at a lower rate.
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