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Fixed income instruments are another of the major asset classes that should be understood by investors. They are more commonly called “bonds” in the daily vernacular of the financial world and there are several types of bonds. For simplistic purposes for now let’s just say that they (unlike time deposit or money market instruments) are an asset class that usually extend over a period lasting longer than time deposits and with a maturities that may be between 2 years lasting up to (in the case of US Treasury bonds) 30 years.
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VonCannon, B. (2017). Understanding the Fixed Income Markets. In: A Guidebook for Today's Asian Investor. Palgrave, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5831-8_2
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