Interest-rate risk

Interest Rate Risk


Interest-rate risk.


You face interest-rate risk when you own long-term bonds or bond mutual funds because their market value will drop if interest rates increase.

That loss of value occurs because investors will be able to buy bonds with a new, higher interest rate, so they won't pay full price for an older bond paying a lower interest rate.

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Wihlborgs Fastigheter AB (Wihlborgs)(STO:WIHL), a property company that focuses on commercial properties in the Oresund region, announced on Thursday the restructuring of its portfolio of interest-rate derivatives following a review of the company's management of interest-rate risk.
The negative impact of rising interest rates for Omani banks is at odds with the Basel interest-rate risk disclosures in their financial statements, which imply that a 200bp parallel upwards shift in the yield curve would benefit margins.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is weighing updating its standards for capturing interest-rate risk on assets banks plan to hold to maturity, Stefan Ingves, the regulator's chairman, said in an interview.
Loans held in portfolio need to be backed by capital to address three risks: normal credit risk, interest-rate risk, and catastrophic risk.
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But one pension consulting firm warns that in the current environment, plan sponsors should be wary of implementing a popular approach to limiting a plan's interest-rate risk, called liability-driven investing (LDI).
The primary subject matter of this case involves the use of GAP analysis to measure the interest-rate risk exposure of a credit union.
A mortgage originator could either commit to selling a mortgage to Freddie Mac at a specific price and pay a small application fee, or obtain pre-approval for a later purchase of a mortgage at a variable price (along with a degree of interest-rate risk protection) and pay a larger "commitment fee."
"We're telling investors not to invest in long-term corporate and Treasury bonds because that's where the interest-rate risk is the greatest."
"We have not taken a great deal of interest-rate risk because rates have been so low and I think we're very well-positioned to grow our bottom line in the future, and that bodes well for our stock."
We find that bank analysts' risk and value judgments distinguish banks' exposure to interest-rate risk only under full-fair-value-income measurement.