Asian bond funds allow people to invest in government and corporate debt of Asian countries. These funds usually focus on emerging countries, so they exclude Japan. Depending on which financial group you ask, there are 21 to 23 countries classified as "developing" or "emerging" in the region.
The funds also divide up by currency type. There are those based in local currency (meaning the currency of the particular emerging country), or those that are hard-money based (based in the presumably more stable home currency of the investor...like the U.S. dollar).
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Finance: What are Bonds?393 Views
Finance a la shmoop what is a bond? well a bond is your word your promise your [Women shake hands]
handshake your John Hancock on a contracted piece of paper your mortgage
your credit card debt yeah their bonds to your "I swear I'm not a deadbeat"
declaration... that's your bond right well bonds come [Man lying on a sofa]
in many complex flavors and compositions simply put bonds are loans aka debt you
borrow money or you promise or you you bond that
you'll pay it back when you borrow money the amount you borrow is called the
principal you pay rent on that amount borrowed and that rent is called [rent appears at bank]
interest to the entity loaning you the money that interest is called yield
thank you very much for the yield like if the lender rents you a grand for a
year and you pay them a thousand 80 bucks at year-end paying back the
principal and then the rent on the money while the lender will have had a yield [Yield of lender appears]
of 8% on the grand that they loaned you so that's a bond you borrow money you
pay it back and if you don't the person who loaned you the dough well they [Person stamped with property of shmoop bank]
generally own your tuchus and yeah you know what Shakespeare said about bonds
yeah that's what he said so if you don't really know what you're doing don't do
it...
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