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Stripped Yield
Stripped Yield
Image 1 The implied sovereign yield of a bond or the theoretical yield of the non-collateralized portion of the bond.

Because many Brady Bonds have built-in features of interest and principal guarantees to attract secondary market investors, stripping out these enhancements allows investors to better understand the underlying sovereign risk of the bond.

Image 2 In other words, the yield on all of the cashflow from the part of the bond that is not guaranteed by US zero-coupon bonds.


Brady Bond

Coupon

Yield

Zero-Coupon Bond