11% interest on Barclays Bank bonds

eeja

Can any of our experts please explain why the yield on these perpetual bonds is so high and what the risks are currently in buying these corporate bonds for long term investment.
Thank you

stevetodd

eeja wrote: »

Can any of our experts please explain why the yield on these perpetual bonds is so high and what the risks are currently in buying these corporate bonds for long term investment.
Thank you

Have you got a link to this 11% bond? The only ones I can find on self trade for Barclays have alreday matured (is this the same one, it is showing 11%)

sabretoothtigger

Its been mentioned before. The bond market in general is like this presently, it represents the risk of capital loss I suppose

see selftrade for listings

barclays shares have fallen two thirds in the last couple months. You can buy them for a pound but these bonds require 100k to buy I think, you would have to invest in a bond fund and Ive no idea if thats a good idea or not presently

I have read that the bond prices reflect a greater prediction of default and failure now then ever before including the 30's depression

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http://www.bondscape.net/feed.html

it represents a high risk. A bond is a loan

miserable_ol_so_n_so

Can someone clarify..........
Can the bond issuer, Barclays in this instance, default on the interest payments and still stay in business?
Has Barclays todate defaulted on any of such bonds?

sabretoothtigger

Barclays can go broke yes, most banks borrow ten times their own worth. I think this is what tier 1 capital % refers to
tier 2 'assets' includes american sub prime debt afaik

Not sure where bonds rank but they can fail to pay them, most likely they would be nationalised soon after as banks must pay their bills or no one would deal with them at all and barclays is the worlds largest ETF operator, etc



B&B bonds, not currently paid afaik - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1274443&highlight=barclays+bonds

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1350163&highlight=bonds

miserable_ol_so_n_so

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Barclays can go broke yes, most banks borrow ten times their own worth. I think this is what tier 1 capital % refers to
tier 2 'assets' includes american sub prime debt afaik

Not sure where bonds rank but they can fail to pay them, most likely they would be nationalised soon after as banks must pay their bills or no one would deal with them at all and barclays is the worlds largest ETF operator, etc



B&B bonds, not currently paid afaik - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1274443&highlight=barclays+bonds

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1350163&highlight=bonds

And if it were to default and get nationalised, would the government continue to pay the bondholders?

sabretoothtigger

They arent paying b&b bonds till the other debts are clear afaik.
ie. b&b would have to make a profit on its assets/liabilities, obviously nobody believed this would be the case

baby_boomer

Exactly.

There is a risk of the yield falling to 0%.

At that point you would also suffer severe loss of capital as the value of the bond plummeted.

It's not interest - it's a yield. There is no obligation for the bank to pay out if it is in financial difficulties.

stevetodd

kittie wrote: »

http://www.bondscape.net/feed.html

it represents a high risk. A bond is a loan

Thanks for the link, 2 things i noted:

1. It's perpetual, so no 'safe end date' to reach and perhaps save you if things look like they may turn bad.
2. What a wide spread (between the bid and ask prices), seems the ones trading in the bonds are getting the real value

eeja

stevetodd wrote: »

Thanks for the link, 2 things i noted:

1. It's perpetual, so no 'safe end date' to reach and perhaps save you if things look like they may turn bad.
2. What a wide spread (between the bid and ask prices), seems the ones trading in the bonds are getting the real value

..............
Safe end date ? 11% for life seems a good deal for me and inflation is not a problem now or in the forseeable future.
Spread....that depends on the dealers and is always negotiable.
The only way to lose out is if Barclays Bank goes belly up and were that to happen it would surely be rescued as too big to fail.
Agreed ?