Pre-payment and reinvestment risk

Posted by admin on November 28th, 2009 — Posted in Reinvestment risk

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Reinvestment risk arises when a bank has fixed rate interest-earning assets, such as housing loans, where the borrower has the right to repay those loans early. If interest rates fall and borrowers repay their loans the bank will have to reinvest the proceeds received at the then prevailing lower rates.

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