August 2008
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Chapter 29. Convertible Bonds
FRANK J. FABOZZI, PhD, CFA, CPA
Professor in the Practice of Finance, Yale School of Management
STEVEN V. MANN, PhD
Professor of Finance, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
FILIPPO STEFANINI
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Aletti Gestielle Alternative SGR Professor of Risk Management, Faculty of Engineering at Bergamo University in Italy
Abstract: Corporations finance themselves by selling claims to the expected future cash flows generated by their assets. The two basic claims issued are debt claims in the form of bonds and equity claims in the form of common stocks. Between these two endpoints, there exists a continuum of securities that possess features of both bonds and stocks. Among the most prominent of these hybrid securities is convertible bonds. A convertible bond is a combination of an option-free bond and the option to convert the bond into a given number of shares of the issuer's common stock. Convertible bonds may also be callable or putable or both. Depending on the performance of the underlying company, a convertible bond may behave more like a common stock or more like an option-free bond.
Keywords: conversion ratio, conversion premium, conversion price, hard put, soft put, conversion value, straight value, premium payback period, premium over straight value, fixed income equivalent, common stock equivalent, mandatory convertible, reverse convertible, convertible bond arbitrage
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