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Frasers Centrepoint’s 7 year 3.65% bonds: Who should buy?
By A Singaporean Stockmarket Investor (ASSI)  •  May 13, 2015
Some readers alerted me to a bond that is being issued by Frasers Centrepoint and asked me what I thought of it. After all, investing for income, bonds are relevant instruments. The bonds in question are 7 year bonds and have a fixed interest rate of 3.65% per annum. So, unlike the perpetual bonds issued earlier in the year by the same entity, there is a maturity date for these bonds. Bond holders will get back their capital (as long as the entity doesn't default) at the end of the 7 year period. So, they are safer than the perpetuals which, like bond funds, I keep saying, we should avoid. Of course, I also said that we should avoid long term bonds because as interest rates rise, bond prices will fall as Mr. Market expects higher returns for lending money. Yes, when we buy bonds, we are more lenders than investors......
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