Question

Kevin Bacon is thinking about buying an investment. The investment option that he is thinking about buying is a written pledge by a corporation to repay a specified amount of money. It also pays interest payments every 6 months until it matures. What investment is Kevin thinking about purchasing?

Answer 1

Kevin is thinking about purchasing a corporate bond

Step-by-step explanation:

Corporate bonds are bonds issued by firms.

Firms have two major instruments to attract investments from individual investors like Kevin: stocks and bonds.

Stocks are ownership certificates, their values and payouts fluctuates.

Bonds are debt certificates. Issuing them means the firms are obliaged to pay the interests until maturity and the face value of the bond at maturity.