Bond Types
What is a Credit-Linked Note?
What is an I Bond?
The Series I bond is an inflation adjusted savings bond issued by the U.S.
What are Treasury Bills (T-Bills)?
Treasury Bills, or more commonly known as T-Bills, are short term government debt instruments, issued at a discount to par and mature within 1 year. The largest purchase volumes come from primary dealers and other large banking or financial institutions.
A Repo, short for repurchase agreement, is issued for the purposes of short term borrowing and is used typically by institutions who trade government securities, such as discount notes or treasury bonds. Repo's are essentially short te
A structured investment vehicle, or SIV, is an asset class similar to a hedge fund which uses high leverage on investor capital to purchase assets. It is suggested that the leverage is in the area of 13 times. The basic premise of a SIV is to leverage investor capital as collater
Fixed Income ETFs are traded on the major stock exchanges and allow investors to expose themselves to the bond markets. Similar to the way that the S&P 500 is mirrored by the SPY ETF, these fixed income ETFs track the performance of the bond index that it is tracking. You will be able to find a variety of bond market indices out there that track bond performance in
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