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Bond Financing for Investment Purposes

By: EconomyWatch Date: 23 November 2010

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Bond FInancing for investing purposes is an investment procedure that results in profits which are comparably higher than those offered in the Stock Markets due to the risks involved. For those who are interested in Bond Investing, the best way to do so is by purchasing Individual Bonds, Bond Funds, or Investment Trusts.

The potential bond investors should gain all the prior knowledge that they can lay their hands upon, as a must, before finally carrying out the Bond Investing procedures. The process of Bond Investing is basically organized and carried out in the Bond Markets. There are several well known Bond Markets, which the potential investors in bonds can turn to. The following Bond Markets may be visited if one is interested in the process of Bond Investing. The major Bond Markets are classified as according to the different types of Bonds (which are also known as debt securities) they trade in. The more better known markets for Bond Investing are as follows :

Government and Federal Agency Bond Investing market
Municipal Bond Investing market
Corporate Bond Investing market
Mortgage Backed, and Asset Backed Bond Investing market as well as markets for the Collateralized Bond Obligations (or CBOs)
Funding Bond Investing market

Each and every process included within Bond Investing is basically carried out in the Bond Markets. The Bond Markets, in fact, are the places where the trading of bonds are carried out. The trading of bonds, can be separated into two distinct methods. As a result, all the major bond markets which were mentioned, as above, can be segregated into the following, according to the difference in their methods of Bond Investing :

Primary Bond Market, where the bonds or debt securities are issued, that is, sold by the borrowers (the companies in need of capital) to the lenders (or investors).
Secondary Bond Market, the place where the lenders (those who actually invest into the companies by purchasing bonds issued by them) trade bonds issued previously or outstanding bonds, amongst themselves.

The major Bond Investing markets named above, commonly trade in bonds or debt securities which are issued for a certain period of time as determined by the company issuing the bonds. The companies which are in desperate of capital funding to repay debts incurred or to finance expansion programs. The investors who buy the bonds to gain higher rates of interests which are attached along with the bonds, are in fact the creditors to the company issuing bonds.

Short term maturity Bond Investing or Bond Investing in Bills that stretch at the most up to a year
Bond Investing in Notes or medium term maturity Bond Investing which commonly extend between one to ten years
Long term maturity Bond Investing or investing in Bonds, which usually exceeds a time period of ten years.

The Bond Investing method may appear to be a comparatively more secured manner of investing one's hard earned money. This is because, in addition to gaining more on account of the higher interests that are offered by companies issuing bonds; the companies issuing bonds, at first, pay off their creditors, that is, the people who have lent it sums of money.

However, the earnings made through the investments in the shares of the same company, for instance, are lesser, for the dividends awarded by companies on their shares are comparatively lesser. Bonds are most commonly issued by those companies which are in dire straits, and need to be pulled out of that situation, to survive bankruptcy. This is the main reason behind companies offering higher interests on the bonds issued by them in the bond markets.

It may also happen that the company that has issued bonds ultimately goes bust, then the people who have participated in the process of Bond Investing by purchasing the bonds issued by that particular company have nothing to do but consider their investment as bad debt, an debt that cannot be recovered.

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