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Companies can raise money to run their businesses in many ways. Sometimes a company will raise equity. When they raise equity, they sell a portion of the business to a new partner or issue shares to ...

Understand conversions in options trading as a strategy of exchanging assets like bonds or shares at set prices by specific ...

Many investors need growth in their portfolios but are wary of stocks because of their volatility – and memories of last year’s losses. With rising interest rates they may be pleased with the current ...

Convertible bonds are, customarily, fixed rate debt instruments issued by a company (the “issuer”), the terms of which allow the holders of the bonds to convert them into ordinary shares (common stock ...

Convertible bonds are a fine middle ground for investors seeking the best of both worlds. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset's free tool can match you with a financial advisor in ...

Slowdowns in US IPO, high yield and syndicated loan markets have revived US convertible bond issuance as borrowers seek out cheaper debt due to rising interest rates US borrowers have turned to ...

Convertible bonds and convertible stocks are a tool that public companies often use for large financings to avoid disturbing their equity cap tables. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been a big ...

Management has now said that the convertible bondholders have asked about exercising their options, implying up to 20% dilution is on the table. I am not as concerned about it; a lot of it should ...

As we can see, even the convertible bond index fund is only yielding 2.12%, with both global and domestic equity indices yielding less than that. As such, the Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund ...