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Premium bonds are an investment product from the National Savings and Investment (NS&I), which is owned by the government. Each month, millions of savers are entered into a prize draw to win cash ...
Premium Bonds is a lottery bond scheme organised by the United Kingdom government since 1956. At present it is managed by the government's National Savings and Investments agency. The principle behind Premium Bonds is that rather than the stake being gambled, as in a usual lottery , it is the interest on the bonds that is distributed by a lottery.
Bonds that go above their issue price are called premium bonds, while those that fall below it are called discount bonds. Bond prices can fluctuate for a number of reasons, including:
Series EE bonds were first issued in 1980 and continue to be issued today. These bonds may pay a variable rate if issued from May 1997 to April 2005, or a fixed rate if issued in May 2005 or after ...
The intuitive notion that stocks are much riskier than bonds is not a sufficient explanation of the observation that the magnitude of the disparity between the two returns, the equity risk premium (ERP), is so great that it implies an implausibly high level of investor risk aversion that is fundamentally incompatible with other branches of ...
An income trust is an investment that may hold equities, debt instruments, royalty interests or real properties. It is especially useful for financial requirements of institutional investors such as pension funds, [1] and for investors such as retired individuals seeking yield.
High-yield bonds — sometimes called junk bonds — carry a higher default risk and tend to be issued by companies with weaker financial stability or less reliable income streams. Thus, the yield ...
BCE Inc v 1976 Debentureholders, 2008 SCC 69 (CanLII), [2008] 3 SCR 560 [2] is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the nature of the duties of corporate directors to act in the best interests of the corporation, "viewed as a good corporate citizen".