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2. What is compound interest? How compounding works to turn time ...

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   Here’s what the letters represent: A is the amount of money in your account. P is your principal balance you invested. R is the annual interest rate expressed as a decimal. N is the number of ...

3. Yield to maturity - Wikipedia

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   With 20 years remaining to maturity, the price of the bond will be 100/1.07 20, or $25.84. Even though the yield-to-maturity for the remaining life of the bond is just 7%, and the yield-to-maturity bargained for when the bond was purchased was only 10%, the annualized return earned over the first 10 years is 16.25%.

4. Effective interest rate - Wikipedia

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   For example, a nominal interest rate of 6% compounded monthly is equivalent to an effective interest rate of 6.17%. 6% compounded monthly is credited as 6%/12 = 0.005 every month. After one year, the initial capital is increased by the factor (1 + 0.005) 12 ≈ 1.0617. Note that the yield increases with the frequency of compounding.

5. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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   The coupon payment frequency. 1 = annual, 2 = semi-annual, 4 = quarterly, 12 = monthly, etc. Principal Par value of the investment. (Also known as "face value", "nominal value" or just "par"). In the case of an amortizing bond, it is the unpaid principal = outstanding principal amount (OPA) = principal balance.

6. How do bonds generate returns for investors? - AOL

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   Interest payments are the primary way bonds generate returns for investors.

7. Rate of return - Wikipedia

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   An annual rate of return is a return over a period of one year, such as January 1 through December 31, or June 3, 2006, through June 2, 2007, whereas an annualized rate of return is a rate of return per year, measured over a period either longer or shorter than one year, such as a month, or two years, annualized for comparison with a one-year ...