Bond investors are used to studying features like yield, maturity and credit quality. But many municipal and corporate bonds throw a curve: a "call" feature that ends the income flow, adding a layer ...

Callable bonds are a type of bond that the issuer can “call” or redeem before the maturity date. The specifics vary from bond to bond, but callable bonds always have one thing in common — the issuer ...

When companies and governments issue bonds, they do so with a specific maturity date attached to the bond. For example, a five-year corporate bond will pay interest for five years before it’s ...

WASHINGTON - Three years ago Linda Knight, the treasurer of Fannie Mae, began looking for a way to increase its use of callable debt in its business of buying home mortgages and packaging them into ...

If a bond is "callable," it means that the issuer has the right to buy the bond back at a predetermined date before its full maturity date. The call could happen at the bond's face value, or the ...

Q: I've been considering buying bonds, but I've learned that some bonds have a "call provision." Can you please explain what that means? A: Callable bonds are bonds where the lender can decide to pay ...

Decade-old municipal securities that have current call provisions, as well as attractively-priced hospital bonds affiliated with medical schools and teaching facilities, are helping one veteran ...

UBS Group (UBS) is looking to sell two U.S. dollar-denominated additional Tier 1 bonds, a person familiar with the matter who ...

Bond investors are used to studying features like yield, maturity and credit quality. But many municipal and corporate bonds throw a curve: a "call" feature that ends the income flow, adding a layer ...