IF YOU PLAN TO TAKE THE SIE EXAM, KNOW THE IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM BONDS
If you are going to take and pass the Securities Industry Essentials Exam, make sure that you study and know the differences between Short Term Bonds or debt and Long Term Bonds or debt. Why? Because the SIE Exam includes questions on this topic. How do I know? FINRA publishes a Content Outline for the SIE, and Section 2.1.2 lists as required knowledge the Characteristics of Short Term vs Long Term Debt.
Bob Eder in his SIE guide, Study for the Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) Exam, discusses major Short and Long Term Bond Characteristics. Here is a sample of Bob Eder's discussion:
Bond Duration
vs. Maturity (2.1.2)
A bond’s dollar price will change when interest rates
go up or down. The longer the maturity of the bond, the greater will be the
percentage price change when interest rates change. However, it is more exact
to substitute "duration" for maturity. The greater the duration, the
greater the price change when interest rates move up or down. Duration gives us
a more accurate measurement of price change than does maturity. Duration
represents the midpoint on a time line where the present value of principal
repayment and payment of interest is equal on both sides.
Here is the link to FINRA's Content Outline for the SIE Exam. See the references to Short and Long Term Bond Characteristics in FINRA's Content Outline, Section 2.1.2.
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