Talk:Corporate bonds

Feel free to develop this page Blbarnitz 23:51, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I have been unable to find a credible reference regarding the mitigation of call risk from a corporate bond portfolio. The following may be true:
 * Short term corporate bonds are much less likely to have call provisions than longer maturities, so a short term corporate bond fund may avoid, or at least greatly reduce, this risk.
 * Vanguard claims in their prospectus on the new index bond funds that the indexes hold very few callable bonds and that call risk is very low for all three corporate bond indexes. --Blbarnitz 18:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

The above link is broken. Is this still needed? How do you find callable bonds in fund holdings? I checked the annual report for Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND), but didn't see anything with "callable" in the holdings.

Can the Expand template be removed? If not, what else is needed? --LadyGeek 21:50, 25 November 2012 (CST)


 * Q: How do you find callable bonds in fund holdings?
 * At the end of the annual report schedule of investments, one will find footnotes:


 * 4 The average or expected maturity is shorter than the final maturity shown because of the possibility of interim principal payments and prepayments or the possibility of the issue being called.
 * Thus, every bond footnoted (4) is a callable bond.--Blbarnitz 01:28, 26 November 2012 (CST)