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    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments: Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults
    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments: Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults
    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments: Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults
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    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments: Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults

    By Ronald E. Hudkins

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    If you're looking to get sound guidance and trusted investment strategies, this book will set you up to understand and take control of your bond investment options.
    Because there are many unusual aspects relative to bond investment, you need to have a basic understanding of the market, the bond issuer, how to measure rates of return and how to maximize those rates.

    You will understand how bonds operate on a very basic level, to include the various kinds of bonds and how bond funds can actually be a highly lucrative option. You will learn the fundamental differences between corporate, government and municipal bonds and how much of a return you can anticipate from each.
    You will be taught the face value, sale price and coupon rate, of a bond, as well as their callability, ratings, insurance, taxes, and maturity that might be and are associated with them.

    Savings Bonds (as one example) have been gaining a renewed significance since the U.S. Treasury introduced the inflation-protected Series I Bond and their online accounts at Treasury Direct. After reading Basic Understanding of Savings Bond Investments, Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults you will understand how Savings Bonds work and why the Series I Savings Bond protects you from the risk of default. You will know how to open an account at Treasury Direct. You will also know bond inflation risks, capital loss risks understand inflation impacts, supply and demand and the tax advantages of your savings and investment holdings.

    Everyone should ensure a portion of their investment portfolio in readily-available in the event of an emergency. I bonds are an easy choice for this low-risk portion of your investment portfolio. If you already have an investment in various Bonds, you will learn estate planning strategies that will save your family money. You will be taught the investment strategies that increase the value of your holdings and tax strategies that will help you avoid the Double-Taxation Trap, the Stinker Bond Penalty, the hidden interest-rate penalties and the Deferred-Tax Time Bomb.

    This book includes advice tested by time and its strategies reflect our modern day market conditions. This book provides anyone who has never invested in bonds before an ideal opportunity to confidently invest in and earn noteworthy returns from their bond investments.

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    PublisherRonald E. Hudkins
    Release dateJul 21, 2015
    ISBN9781310649479
    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments: Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults
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    Ronald E. Hudkins

    Ronald E. Hudkins (1951-Present) was born in Canton, Ohio and grew up in Massillon, Ohio. He was drafted into military service in 1970 where he remained up until 1993 when he retired honorably from the U.S. Army, Military Police Corps. During his service and after, he attended many universities that include Kent State University, Maryland University, Central Texas College (European Branch), Blair Junior College, Hagerstown Junior College and Phoenix University. He mostly completed general studies but declared two majors in the areas of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Although he was an intelligent student he was never on the Dean's List, or voted a most likely to succeed candidate. He did not graduate with any specific degree however if you were to consider all his credits and self-study he could reasonably be considered a Rogue Scholar.

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    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments - Ronald E. Hudkins

    Basic Understanding of Bond Investments

    - Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults -

    By Ronald E. Hudkins

    And the US Department of the Treasury – Bureau of the Fiscal Service

    ~~~

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    Description

    If you're looking to get sound guidance and trusted investment strategies, this book will set you up to understand and take control of your bond investment options.

    Because there are many unusual aspects relative to bond investment, you need to have a basic understanding of the market, the bond issuer, how to measure rates of return and how to maximize those rates.

    You will understand how bonds operate on a very basic level, to include the various kinds of bonds and how bond funds can actually be a highly lucrative option. You will learn the fundamental differences between corporate, government and municipal bonds and how much of a return you can anticipate from each.

    You will be taught the face value, sale price and coupon rate, of a bond, as well as their callability, ratings, insurance, taxes, and maturity that might be and are associated with them.

    Savings Bonds (as one example) have been gaining a renewed significance since the U.S. Treasury introduced the inflation-protected Series I Bond and their online accounts at Treasury Direct. After reading Basic Understanding of Savings Bond Investments, Book 5 for Teens and Young Adults you will understand how Savings Bonds work and why the Series I Savings Bond protects you from the risk of default. You will know how to open an account at Treasury Direct. You will also know bond inflation risks, capital loss risks understand inflation impacts, supply and demand and the tax advantages of your savings and investment holdings.

    Everyone should ensure a portion of their investment portfolio in readily-available in the event of an emergency. I bonds are an easy choice for this low-risk portion of your investment portfolio. If you already have an investment in various Bonds, you will learn estate planning strategies that will save your family money. You will be taught the investment strategies that increase the value of your holdings and tax strategies that will help you avoid the Double-Taxation Trap, the Stinker Bond Penalty, the hidden interest-rate penalties and the Deferred-Tax Time Bomb.

    This book includes advice tested by time and its strategies reflect our modern day market conditions. This book provides anyone who has never invested in bonds before an ideal opportunity to confidently invest in and earn noteworthy returns from their bond investments.

    Financial Disclaimer

    The Content is intended only as a base reference to help you make financial decisions. It is broad in scope and does not consider your personal financial situation. Your personal financial situation is unique and the information and advice may not be appropriate for your situation. Accordingly, before making any final decisions or implementing any financial strategy, I recommend that you obtain additional information and advice of your accountant and other financial advisors who are fully aware of your individual circumstances.

    You are advised to undertake your Due diligence by investigating any business or person prior to signing a contract.

    You should consider this your legal obligation and as such apply it to your voluntary investigations. A common example of due diligence in various industries is the process through which a potential acquirer evaluates a target company or its assets before an acquisition. The theory behind due diligence thus holds that performing this type of investigation contributes significantly to informed decision making by enhancing the amount and quality of information available to you the decision maker. You should ensure that the information gathered is systematically used to deliberate in a reflexive manner on the decision(s) at hand and all information factors in the costs, benefits, and risks you anticipate to undertake.

    DEDICATION

    I dedicate this book to teens and young adults looking for sound advice on how to make smart financial choices needed to establish a firm footing as you work your way through school and the post-graduation years.

    Just remember as your speeding down that new found road of freedom that how you spend your 20’s financially will ultimately define you.

    After all is said and done you should also know; after you get married, someone should know how to write a check correctly, save and invest. Because, even if you have tons of love, there’s still going to be a lot of bills!

    Table of Contents

    Description

    Financial Disclaimer

    Dedication

    Chapter One Introduction to Bonds

    Chapter Two TreasuryDirect

    Chapter Three Legacy Treasury Direct

    Chapter Four Understanding Corporate Bond Funds

    Chapter Five What are Municipal Bonds

    Chapter Six Qualified Zone Academy Bonds

    Chapter Seven U.S. savings bonds

    Chapter Eight Convertible Bonds

    Chapter Nine Junk Bonds

    Chapter Ten Insurance bond

    Chapter Eleven Zero-coupon bond

    Chapter Twelve Treasury Securities

    Chapter Thirteen Stock, Mutual Fund or Bond Investment Clubs

    Chapter Fourteen Commercial Paper

    Chapter Fifteen Importance of Credit Rating Agencies

    Chapter Sixteen Earnings and Inventory

    Book Review

    About the Author

    Investing for Profit

    Appendix One - Glossary of Terms

    Appendix Two

    Appendix Three

    Chapter One

    Introduction to Bonds

    General Overview

    The bond market (also debt market or credit market) is a financial market where participants can issue new debt, known as the primary market, or buy and sell debt securities, known as the secondary market. This is usually in the form of bonds, but it may include notes, bills, and so on.

    Its primary goal is to provide long-term funding for public and private expenditures. The bond market has largely been dominated by the United States, which accounts for about 44% of the market. As of 2009, the size of the worldwide bond market (total debt outstanding) is an estimated at $82.2 trillion, of which the size of the outstanding U.S. bond market debt was $31.2 trillion according to Bank for International Settlements (BIS), or alternatively $35.2 trillion as of Q2 2011 according to Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

    Nearly all of the average daily trading in the U.S. bond market takes place between broker-dealers and large institutions in a decentralized over-the-counter (OTC) market. However, a small number of bonds, primarily corporate ones, are listed on exchanges.

    An important part of the bond market is the government bond market, because of its size and liquidity. Government bonds are often used to compare other bonds to measure credit risk. Because of the inverse relationship between bond valuation and interest rates, the bond market is often used to indicate changes in interest rates or the shape of the yield curve, the measure of cost of funding.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, February 25, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_market

    Know Some Bond Basics before Investing

    The US Bond Market is the biggest securities market in the world, offering investors a variety of virtual investment options. Most of the veteran investors are well aware of the prime aspects of this market, but due to the growing number of products everyday it becomes really very difficult for experts to keep pace. At first, bonds were only considered as a medium to earn interest and to preserve capital, but today they have emerged into a $90 trillion global market that has the potential to offer a wide variety of benefits to the investment portfolios, including some striking returns. But, before you move ahead to tackle the complexities of this diverse and huge market, it is crucial for you to understand the Bond Basics first.

    What actually makes a bond a bond?

    A Bond is basically a type of loan that a bondholder, or a bond buyer, makes to the issuer of the bond. Municipalities, corporations and government bodies issue such bonds when there is a need for them to generate funds. The investor who purchases such bonds actually lends money to the issuer. Unlike other loans, in the bond market the investors get interest periodically and after a standard time (which is called the maturity period of the bond) they get back the principle amount.

    People need money to fulfill their needs and so do the governments and companies. So, the ultimate solution they have discovered to raise funds is by issuing bonds to the public market. The investors purchase these bonds and lend a portion of capital to the required companies or governments. Bonds are like a loan where the investors are the lender. The company that sells these bonds is called the issuer.

    There are different types of bonds available for investors including, international bonds, asset-backed, mortgage-backed, government bonds, corporate bonds, municipal bonds and more.

    Bond investments

    Bonds typically trade in $1,000 increments and are priced as a percentage of par value (100%). Many bonds have minimums imposed by the bond or the dealer. Typical sizes offered are increments of $10,000. For broker/dealers, however, anything smaller than a $100,000 trade is viewed as an odd lot.

    Bonds typically pay interest at set intervals. Bonds with fixed coupons divide the stated coupon into parts defined by their payment schedule, for example, semi-annual pay. Bonds with floating rate coupons have set calculation schedules where the floating rate is calculated shortly before the next payment. Zero-coupon bonds do not pay interest. They are issued at a deep discount to account for the implied interest.

    Because most bonds have predictable income, they are typically purchased as part of a more conservative investment scheme. Nevertheless, investors have the ability to actively trade bonds, especially corporate bonds and municipal bonds with the market and can make or lose money depending on economic, interest rate, and issuer factors.

    Bond interest is taxed as ordinary income, in contrast to dividend income, which receives favorable taxation rates. However many government and municipal bonds are exempt from one or more types of taxation.

    Investment companies allow individual investors the ability to participate in the bond markets through bond funds, closed-end funds and unit-investment trusts. In 2006 total bond fund net inflows increased 97% from $30.8 billion in 2005 to $60.8 billion in 2006. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are another alternative to trading or investing directly in a bond issue. These securities allow individual investors the ability to overcome large initial and incremental trading sizes. One firm that leverages on the debt market is Ted Virtue's (http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/profiles/1994/ted-virtue ) MidOcean Partners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidOcean_Partners).

    Extracted from www February 22, 2015 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_market

    Bonds Vs Stock

    Stocks are actually equity, while bonds are debt. And this differentiates both these securities. Buying stocks enable the buyers to become the owner of the company. But, by purchasing bonds the investors become a creditor to the company or government. The primary benefit of becoming a creditor is that the creditor can claim higher return on the assets compared to a shareholder. Moreover, bond buyers get paid before the shareholder when a bankruptcy is filed by the corporation. But, the only drawback is that the bond holder will never get any share of profit when the organization performs well as he/she is only entitled for the principle plus interest at the time of maturity. So, it is clear that investing in bonds is a safer and less risky venture than investing in stocks.

    Some Characteristics of Bonds

    A bond provides some financial security because it gives a fixed rate of return and is free from all local and state taxes. It’s one of the most popular financial securities with many benefits and types. In order to understand bond basics, you should know their characteristics or features. The essential factors which play a role in fixing the price of a bond are as follows;

    1. Face value of a bond- The principle value of a loan which is returned by the issuer on the date of maturity is known as the face value. It is the base price of the bond and remains the same all the time. Proper knowledge of face value helps a lot during redemption and interest payments.

    2. Date of maturity- The maturity date is that date on which a bond agreement comes to an end. Generally, most bonds mature within 30 years but some corporations can change this period too. Short term bonds are known as notes. These are much more suitable for a small investor.

    3. Coupon value- Another feature of a bond agreement is the coupon. Bonds used to come with attached coupons which had to be clipped by investors for easy redemption upon maturity. The size of the payment received is known as a coupon. Therefore, a bond with a 20% coupon will pay 20% of the face value in a year. The value of this coupon is decided by the issuing company.

    4. Sinking funds- It is a technique by which a company sets aside money to pay off debts. This fund is accumulated in a separate account and is used for instant redemption of debt securities. This fund reduces the credit risk but along with this, it gives a rise to increment risk too.

    5. Other essential features- After basic characteristics, a person should know about other features too. Yield and market price are two important features. Yield is the rate of return from investing in a bond and market price is the price at which it is traded in the market. Proper understanding of these features plays a big role in achieving higher returns.

    Proper efforts and dedication are essential elements of bond investment. If you want to realize the benefits of a high return on your investment then undertake due diligence and remember the basic bond features. While investing in this instrument, proper knowledge of bond basics will very much help a lot in enhance your future investments.

    Chapter Two

    TreasuryDirect

    What is TreasuryDirect?

    TreasuryDirect is a secure web-based system that allows investors to establish accounts to purchase, hold, and manage Treasury securities online. Through TreasuryDirect, investors can purchase Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, Floating Rate Notes, and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) as well as Series EE savings bonds and Series I savings bonds.

    http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/faq/faq_ltdphaseout.htm, February 22, 2015

    In your TreasuryDirect account, you can purchase and hold Treasury bills, notes, bonds, Floating Rate Notes, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), and savings bonds, and it's available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

    Your TreasuryDirect account is protected by a password of your choosing. The system allows you to conduct most of your transactions online -- you can purchase, and reinvest securities and perform account maintenance from your home or work computer. You can also view all your account information, including pending transactions. TreasuryDirect offers you all of these features with no maintenance fees, no matter how much you

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