1. Fundamentals of Investments10
C h a p t e r
Bond Prices and Yields
Fundamentals of Investments
Valuation & Management
second edition
Charles J. Corrado Bradford D. Jordan
McGraw Hill / Irwin
Slides by Yee-Tien (Ted) Fu

2. Bond Prices and Yields
Our goal in this chapter is to understand the relationship between bond prices and yields, and to examine some of the fundamental tools of bond risk analysis used by fixed-income portfolio managers.
Goal

3. Bond Basics
A bond essentially is a security that offers the investor a series of fixed interest payments during its life, along with a fixed payment of principal when it matures.
So long as the bond issuer does not default, the schedule of payments does not change.
When originally issued, bonds normally have maturities ranging from 2 years to 30 years, but bonds with maturities of 50 or 100 years also exist.
Bonds issued with maturities of less than 10 years are usually called notes.
A very small number of bond issues have no stated maturity, and these are referred to as perpetuities or consols.

4. Bond Basics Straight bond
An IOU that obligates the issuer to pay to the bondholder a fixed sum of money (called the principal, par value, stated value or face value) at the bond’s maturity, along with constant, periodic interest payments (called coupons) during the life of the bond.
U.S. Treasury bonds are straight bonds.
Special features may be attached, creating convertible bonds, “putable” bonds, “putable” bonds have a put feature that grants bondholders the right to sell their bonds back to the issuer at a special put price.

5. Bond Basics
Two basic yield measures for a bond are its coupon rate and current yield.

6. Bond Basics
example1, suppose a $1,000 par value bond pays semiannual coupons of $40. The annual coupon is then $80, and stated as a percentage of par value the bond's coupon rate is
$80 / $1,000 = 8%.
example2, suppose a $1,000 par value bond paying an $80 annual coupon has a price of $1,
The current yield is $80 / $1, = 7.75%.

7. Straight Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity
Yield to maturity (YTM)
The discount rate that equates a bond’s price with the present value of its future cash flows.

8. Straight Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity
Bond price = present value of all the coupon payments
+ present value of the principal payment
where C = annual coupon, the sum of 2 semiannual coupons
FV = face value
M = maturity in years

9. Straight Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity
Suppose a bond has a $1,000 face value, 20 years to maturity, an 8 percent coupon rate, and a yield of 9 percent. What’s the price?

10. At simple interest:
P = A/(1 + nr)
At interest compounded annually:
P = A/(1 + r)n
At interest compounded q times a year:
P = A/(1 + r/q)nq

11. Straight Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity

12. Premium and Discount Bonds
Bonds are commonly distinguished according to the relative relationship between their selling price and their par value.
Premium bonds: price > par value
YTM < coupon rate
Discount bonds: price < par value
YTM > coupon rate
Par bonds: price = par value
YTM = coupon rate

13. Premium and Discount Bonds

14. Premium and Discount Bonds
In general, when the coupon rate and YTM are held constant …
for discount bonds: the longer the term to maturity, the greater the discount from par value, and
for premium bonds: the longer the term to maturity, the greater the premium over par value.

15. Premium and Discount Bonds
Example 10.2: Premium and Discount Bonds. Suppose a bond has a $1,000 face value, with eight years to maturity and a 7 percent coupon rate. If its yield to maturity is 9 percent, does this bond sell at a premium or discount? Verify your answer by calculating the bond’s price.
Since the coupon rate is smaller than the yield, this is a discount bond.

16. Premium and Discount Bonds
Example 10.3: Premium Bonds Consider two bonds, both with a 9 percent coupon rate and the same yield to maturity of 7 percent, but with different maturities of 5 and 10 years. Which has the higher price? Verify your answer by calculating the prices.
First, since both bonds have a 9 percent coupon and a 7 percent yield, both bonds sell at a premium. Based on what we know, the one with the longer maturity will have a higher price.
We can check these conclusions by calculating the prices as follows:

17. Premium and Discount Bonds

18. Premium and Discount Bonds
Example 10.4: Discount Bonds Now consider two bonds, both with a 9 percent coupon rate and the same yield to maturity of 11 percent, but with different maturities of 5 and 10 years. Which has the
higher price? Verify your answer by calculating prices.
These are both discount bonds. (Why?) The one with the shorter maturity will have a higher price. To check, the prices can be calculated as follows:

19. Premium and Discount Bonds

20. Relationships among Yield Measures
Since the current yield is always between the coupon rate and the yield to maturity (unless the bond is selling at par) …
for premium bonds:
coupon rate > current yield > YTM
for discount bonds:
coupon rate < current yield < YTM
for par value bonds:
coupon rate = current yield = YTM

21. A note on bond price quotes
Clean price : the price of a bond net of accrued interest , this the price that is typically quoted .
Dirty price : the price of a bond including accrued interest , also known as the full or invoice price , this is the price the buyer actually pays .

22. Calculating Yields
To calculate a bond’s yield given its price, we use the straight bond formula and then try different yields until we come across the one that produces the given price.
To speed up the calculation, financial calculators and spreadsheets may be used.

23. Yield to Call
A callable bond allows the issuer to buy back the bond at a specified call price anytime after an initial call protection period, until the bond matures.

24. Yield to Call
Yield to call (YTC) is a yield measure that assumes a bond issue will be called at its earliest possible call date.
Callable
bond price
where C = constant annual coupon
CP = call price of the bond
T = time in years to earliest possible call date
YTC = yield to call assuming semiannual coupons

25. Interest Rate Risk Interest rate risk
The possibility that changes in interest rates will result in losses in a bond’s value.
The yield actually earned or “realized” on a bond is called the realized yield, and this is almost never exactly equal to the yield to maturity, or promised yield.

26. Interest Rate Risk and Maturity

27. Reinvestment Risk Reinvestment rate risk
The uncertainty about future or target date portfolio value that results from the need to reinvest bond coupons at yields not known in advance.
A simple solution is to purchase zero coupon bonds. In practice however, U.S. Treasury STRIPS are the only zero coupon bonds issued in sufficiently large quantities, and they have lower yields than even the highest quality corporate bonds.

28. Price Risk versus Reinvestment Rate Risk
The risk that bond prices will decrease. Arises in dedicated portfolios when the target date value of a bond or bond portfolio is not known with certainty.
Interest rate increases act to decrease bond prices (price risk) but increase the future value of reinvested coupons (reinvestment rate risk), and vice versa.

29. Immunization Immunization
Constructing a portfolio to minimize the uncertainty surrounding its target date value.
It is possible to engineer a portfolio such that price risk and reinvestment rate risk offset each other more or less precisely.

30. Chapter Review Bond Basics Straight Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity
Straight Bonds
Coupon Rate and Current Yield
Straight Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity
Straight Bond Prices
Premium and Discount Bonds
Relationships among Yield Measures

31. Chapter Review More on Yields
Calculating Yields
Yield to Call
Interest Rate Risk and Malkiel’s Theorems
Promised Yield and Realized Yield
Interest Rate Risk and Maturity
Malkiel’s Theorems

32. Chapter Review Duration Dedicated Portfolios and Reinvestment Risk
Macaulay Duration
Modified Duration
Calculating Macaulay’s Duration
Properties of Duration
Dedicated Portfolios and Reinvestment Risk
Dedicated Portfolios
Reinvestment Risk

33. Chapter Review Immunization Price Risk versus Reinvestment Rate Risk
Immunization by Duration Matching
Dynamic Immunization