Fixed Income Securities

A bond is a fixed income instrument that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower (typically corporate or governmental). A bond could be thought of as an I.O.U. between the lender and borrower that includes the details of the loan and its payments.

Regular Income: Bond issuers are bound by the terms of the bond to pay out regular coupon income to the bondholders (subject to the credit risk of the issuer).

Hedge against inflation: With the proper bond selection, you may potentially earn an investment return which keeps pace with or even exceeds the inflation rate.

Capital appreciation: Like all instruments traded in the secondary market, the price of a bond can appreciate (or depreciate) over and above (or below) the initial purchase price, and allow an investor to realize capital gains (or losses).

Your account will be debited subject to availability of your submission of the order. Please keep your account sufficiently funded to ensure your request is completed. Kindly review order status to ensure your order is placed successfully.

A suitability assessment is an evaluation of your risk appetite based on the information provided in your Investment Profile i.e. risk tolerance, investment objective, investment experience or knowledge, financial situation and financial needs. This information is used to determine whether the selected investment suits you.

You can place purchase and sales orders via the online bonds and T-bills platform. You can also check the status of your orders on the platform.

Fixed interest rate securities are those in which the interest payable is settled in advance. Floating interest rate securities are those in which the interest payable is reset from a pre-determined interval according to a pre-determined benchmark.

Credit quality is a way of calculating an individual’s or company’s creditworthiness. It is also a credit risk and a principal criterion used for judging the investment quality of a bond or mutual fund.

Long-term securities typically offer more return than short-term securities because investors usually prefer to lend money for shorter terms. Hence money lent out for longer terms will have a higher yield.

Interest rates come in different types, they are the rates that banks offer to their depositors, those that they lend to their borrowers, the rate at which the Government borrows in the bond, those offered to small investors in small savings schemes at which companies issue fixed deposits, etc.

Some macroeconomic factors that govern the interest rates are:

• Government borrowings
• Supply of money
• Inflation rate

Invest in Treasury bills and local government of Ghana bonds online.

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   Client Experience,
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While you can place your orders via our online bonds and T-bills 24 hours a day, we will process all orders received before cut-off time (3:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time) on the same day, otherwise, your order shall be processed on the next business day.