BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Maturity Date
- the date when an option expires
Additional Resources
- Extendible/Retractable Bonds
- Extendible and retractable bonds have more than one maturity date. An extendible bond gives its holder the right to extend the initial maturity to a longer maturity date. A retractable bond gives its holder the right to advance the return of principal to an earlier date than the original maturity....
- White papers
- New Asset Allocation Recommendation Raises Bond Weighting
- Bonds are subject to interest rate risk. When interest rates rise, bond prices fall; generally the longer a bond's maturity, the more sensitive it is to this risk. Bonds may also be subject to call risk, which allows the issuer to retain the right to redeem the debt, fully or...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Beyond Process Maturity to Process Competence
- If one accepts that Enterprise Business Process Management [EBPM] is essentially about improving performance, it may even be a misnomer to talk about 'Process Maturity.' After all, neither wisdom nor skill necessarily accompanies maturity. If it is performance that really counts, then one need to go beyond maturity to look...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- What Is My Yield To Maturity?
- Yield to maturity is the rate of return you earn on a bond if you hold the bond to maturity. Yield to maturity assumes that the interest coupons you receive on the bond can be reinvested at the same rate. Yields are shown on a before- and after-tax basis.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- The Development of a Supply Chain Management Process Maturity Model Using the Concepts of Business Process Orientation
- The concept of process maturity proposes that a process has a lifecycle that is assessed by the extent to which the process is explicitly defined, managed, measured, and controlled. A maturity model assumes that progress towards goal achievement comes in stages. The supply chain maturity model presented in this paper...
- White papers 2004-06-26
- Fixed Income Excess Returns and Time to Maturity
- The paper explores the relationship between fixed income excess returns and maturity differentials. In a quest to quantify this relationship, it goes beyond testing the monotonicity of excess returns, by exploring the functional form of excess returns' dependence on the maturity differential. It tests whether the monotonicity of excess returns...
- White papers 2000-10-20
- The Third Wave: Process Management Maturity Models
- Much of the work on process maturity takes inspiration from the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM.). CMM was developed for software engineering disciplines before the advent of BPM systems. Frameworks based on CMM concepts can incorrectly conflate the maturity of business processes with the maturity with which...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Measuring the Strategic Value of Project Management
- This paper describes research that managers can use to measure their Return on Investment for Project Management (PM/RoIsm). A PM Benchmarking procedure is explained that can be used to assess the PM Process Maturity of companies. It has two key components: the Berkeley Project Management Process Maturity Modelsm and the...
- White papers 2002-03-22
- Callable Or Redeemable Bonds
- Callable or redeemable bonds are bonds that can be redeemed or paid off by the issuer prior to the bonds' maturity date. When an issuer calls its bonds, it pays investors the call price usually the face value of the bonds together with accrued interest to date and, at that...
- White papers 2001-07-28
- Set A Project Start Date Or Finish Date
- When you build a new project plan, you specify whether you want to schedule your project from a start date or from a finish date and then you set that date. Nearly every project should be scheduled from a known start date. Even if you know the date by which...
- White papers
- Quality Maturity Analysis
- From the executive summary: ‘Quality Maturity Analysis may be defined as an assessment of an organization’s level of maturity in relation to the quality system it has chosen to operate within. The assessment may take on different forms depending on the type of organization, quality system employed, current level of...
- White papers 2002-11-18
- Set The Status Date
- Microsoft Office Project uses the status date to display progress with progress lines, include non-time phased progress information such as percent complete in a project, or to calculate earned value totals. The status date is the same as the current date (today's date) unless you specify a different status date....
- White papers
- The Debt-Maturity Structure of Small Firms in a Creditor-Oriented Environment
- Once a firm decides to issue debt, the characteristics of this debt instrument should be considered. One of the critical decisions involves debt maturity. Using a sample of 1091 Belgian small firms from 1996 until 2000, this paper analyses the determinants of the corporate debt-maturity structure of small firms in...
- White papers 2003-09-19
- Zero Coupon Or Strip Bonds
- The cash flows of a normal bond consist of the regular interest or coupon payments, that take place over the term of the bond, and the principal repayment that occurs at maturity of the bond. For example, the cash flows of the Government of Canada 8% bond with a maturity...
- White papers
- What Price Should I Pay?
- This calculator shows the current price market value of a bond given the market interest rate that you enter. It also calculates the price at which you would sell the bond in order to achieve your desired yield to maturity. Yield to maturity is the rate of return you expect...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Extension Of Agreement
- The lengthening of a term on a contract to extent the maturity date; or to permit more time for the performance of an obligation or condition; or the extension of the coverage of a lien to include more property. Here is a template for extension of agreement.
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- All About Bonds
- Some investors tell they would never have a portfolio that includes bonds. This always surprises, because the basics of bonds are quite easy to figure out. In half an hour, an investor can learn enough to put bonds to work as either part or all of a portfolio. Bond is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Hierarchy Of Skills: Laying A Foundation For PM Maturity
- The paper reflects the current emphasis in the project management literature on process improvement and maturity models. To be sure, project management capabilities maturity is critical to the long-term improvement of project delivery outcomes. However, it is important to ensure that while working to fine-tune project management processes we do...
- White papers 2003-07-09
- Effective Deposit Pricing-III
- The main focus of this article is upon the market segmentation tactics I.e. non-maturity deposits. It focusses upon tactics used to separate rate-sensitive non-maturity deposit customers from those that are non-rate sensitive, how tiering down can be used to experiment with pricing a non-maturity deposit service line without affecting...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Bond Issuance and Real Estate Investment Trusts: A Closer Look
- This paper conducts an analysis of public debt offerings of Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs with a focus on the maturity of the incremental debt issues. Specifically, it investigates firm characteristics leading REITs to issue short- or long-term debt. The paper finds that debt maturity is directly related to firm...
- White papers 2004-09-30
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