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Fixed Income Securities

Definition of Fixed Income Securities

Fixed Income Securities are issued in exchange for a loan and offer returns to investors in the form of a fixed interest rate. That’s why they are referred to as “fixed income” securities. The common types of fixed income securities are: Firm Allotment is the process of allocating shares during an IPO to investors who are not considered to be retail public investors. The firm allotment is done as per SEBI guidelines, which dictate that a portion of the IPO can be allocated to the likes of Mutual Funds, regular employees (permanent), and others.

  • Certificates of Deposit
  • Corporate Bonds
  • Municipal Bonds
  • Treasury Bonds
  • Treasury Bills

Such securities fall under the category of debt instruments, which means they do not give investors equity shares or ownership in the company but only a promise of returning the principal with interest on maturity.

Often referred to as the coupon rate, the interest on a fixed income security is determined by the creditworthiness of the issuing company or entity as well as the latest interest rate set by the government.

Fixed income securities also confer seniority of claim to investors, which means that the investors who’ve helped finance the loan will receive their money first in the event a company is liquidated.

Related Terms

Fibonacci Retracement

A Fibonacci Retracement is a predictive technical indicator that is used to determine possible direction or trend reversal of a stock or index’s price with horizontal lines for potential support as well as resistance levels.

Fibonacci retracement in action

The logic behind tuning to a Fibonacci Retracement is the assumption that prices will reverse direction towards a previous price-level, especially after a new trend is in motion.

Book Value

Book value of an asset is what you get by subtracting its accumulated depreciation from the original cost of the asset.

That’s why book value is referred to as the Net Asset Value (NAV) in the UK.

For a company, the book value is its total assets subtracted by liabilities, intangible assets and/or goodwill.

Free Float Market Capitalization

Full market capitalization is the market value of the total shares outstanding issued by a company, including public and private stock. This includes stock that’s locked-in and unexercised. That’s why full market capitalization is also referred to as total market capitalization.

Illiquid Asset

An illiquid asset is something of value that can not be exchanged for cash easily. Although an illiquid asset may have value, you will not be able to find buyers for it readily. As a result, illiquid assets are typically sold at a significant discount or worse, lose value and expire.

Forex Trading

Forex trading means buying and selling currency pairs through exchange-traded derivatives or on the OTC market. A currency can only be bought and sold in exchange for another currency, which is why forex trading is always done in pairs.

Trading forex derivatives is carried out on stock exchanges authorized by regulatory bodies (SEBI & RBI), in tandem with approved brokers who allow users to engage with the forex futures trading and options trading markets.

Gamma

Gamma is a mathematical formula used to measure the change in the delta of an options contract price.

Delta is the change in the price of an options contract in relation to the underlying asset’s price.

In simple terms, gamma can be called as the change of the change. The formula to calculate gamma of an options contract is: Γ = ∂2V/∂S2



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