1. CORPORATE BONDS BOND INDENTURE—LEGAL AGREEMENT SETTING OUT TERMS TO PROTECT THE BONDHOLDERS – DOCUMENTS DEFAULT PROVISIONS – BOND TRUSTEE OVERSEES THE COMPLIANCE WITH TERMS PAR OR FACE VALUE—AMOUNT TO BE REPAID AT MATURITY COUPON INTEREST RATE—ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE OF INTEREST – GENERALLY A FIXED RATE, BUT SOME BONDS HAVE FLOATING RATES MATURITY AND REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL—LENGTH OF TIME UNTIL ISSUER REPAYS PAR VALUE CALL PROVISION (OPTIONAL FEATURE)—TIMING AND TERMS OF RIGHT OF ISSUER TO PAY OFF BEFORE MATURITY CONVERSION FEATURE (OPTIONAL FEATURE)—ALLOWS BONDHOLDER TO CONVERT BOND TO ISSUER’S COMMON STOCK

2. BOND RATINGS RATING AGENCIES—EVALUATE PROBABILITY OF ISSUER MAKING PROMISED PAYMENTS LOWER RATINGS HAVE TO PAY HIGHER INTEREST RATES AAA—HIGHEST QUALITY, EXTREMELY STRONG CAPACITY TO PAY AA—VERY STRONG CAPACITY TO PAY A—UPPER MEDIUM QUALITY, STRONG CAPACITY TO PAY BBB—CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES COULD IMPACT THE FIRMS ABILITY TO PAY BB—SPECULATIVE ELEMENTS, FACES UNCERTAINTIES B, CCC, CC—EXTREMELY SPECULATIVE AND HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO NONPAYMENT D—DEFAULT, DOESN’T PAY INTEREST

3. BOND VALUATION RELATIONSHIPS THE VALUE OF A BOND IS INVERSELY RELATED TO CHANGES IN THE MARKET’S REQUIRED YIELD TO MATURITY THE MARKET VALUE OF A BOND WILL BE LESS THAN THE PAR VALUE IF THE MARKET’S REQUIRED YIELD TO MATURITY IS ABOVE THE COUPON INTEREST RATE AND WILL BE VALUED ABOVE PAR VALUE IF THE MARKET’S REQUIRED YIELD TO MATURITY IS BELOW THE COUPON INTEREST RATE AS THE MATURITY DATE APPROACHES, THE MARKET VALUE OF A BOND APROACHES IT PAR VALUE LONG-TERM BONDS HAVE GREATER INTEREST RATE RISK THAN SHORT-TERM BONDS

4. BOND TERMINOLOGY SECURED BOND DEBENTURES – SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES – UNSUBORDINATED DEBENTURES MORTGAGE BONDS EUROBONDS ZERO COUPON BONDS JUNK BONDS FLOATING RATE BONDS CONVERTIBLE BONDS AMORTIZING BONDS NON-AMORTIZING BOND LIBOR (LONDON INTERBANK OFFERED RATE) BASIS POINT MUNICIPAL BONDS U.S. GOVERNMENT BONDS