Should Bondholders be Bailed Out?

23 Bond holders were offered three options.

In a financial restructuring, shareholders typically get wiped out, and bondholders become the new shareholders.

The amendment agreed through the exit consent impairs the bonds left in the hands of holdouts and is intended to induce high participation in the exchange.

The exit consents technique is used in an exchange offer where bond holders agree before the exchange to amend the non payment terms of the bonds from which they are exiting.

Bondholders obviously don t like it they would rather get a gift from the government.

Bondholders were saved because governments generally chose to infuse cash in exchange for common or preferred shares which are subordinate to bondholders claims or to improve balance sheets by buying or guaranteeing the value of assets.

The best policy should categorically exclude bondholders from the set of potential beneficiaries of government bailouts.

Unlike depositors, bondholders generally are not free to withdraw their capital on short notice.

It is now very clear that the taxpayer will always be there to guarantee that bondholders get paid.

Some of the benefits of a government policy that induces bondholders to insist on stricter terms when financial firms take larger risks would not be fully realized if bondholders believed that the government might protect their interests in the event of a bailout.

Shareholders were often required to suffer losses or were even wiped out, but bondholders were generally saved by the government s infusion of cash.

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In January 2005, the Argentine Government presented bond holders with a new debt restructuring deal, involving 152 bonds denominated in six different currencies amounting to roughly 82 billion and subject to eight legal jurisdictions.

Thus, if a financial firm appears to have difficulties, its bondholders cannot stage a run on its assets and how these bondholders fare cannot be expected to trigger runs by bondholders in other companies.

For example, bondholders were fully covered in the bailouts of AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Fannie Mae, while these firms shareholders had to bear large losses.

But this source of market discipline would cease to work if the government s protective umbrella were perceived to extend to bondholders.

Moreover, when providing their capital to a financial firm, bondholders can generally be expected to obtain contractual terms that reflect the risks they face.

The Battle of the Bonds

Proposals for bond exchanges at par, quasi par or discounted values were divided in two scenarios, depending on whether bond holder participation was below or above 70 per cent.

If bondholders knew that the government would protect them, they would not insist on getting stricter contractual terms when they face greater risks.

Rather, bonds should be at least partly converted into equity capital, and any infusion of new capital by the government should be in exchange for securities that are senior to those of existing bondholders.

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The bondholders will gain from an orderly restructuring, and if the value of the assets is truly greater than the market (and outside analysts) believe, they will eventually reap the gains.

Bond lending involves diversified groups of bond holders, including domestic residents, and can be issued under different jurisdictions.

The new bonds, other than those governed by Argentine law, will include Collective Action Clauses (CACs).

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In most governance systems, it is either required or considered good practice to put certain issues to shareholder approval at a general meeting.

Meanwhile, the bond markets have become more sophisticated and more room has been made for speculative grade lending through bonds.

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Bank officers may have walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars, but everyone else in our society shareholders, bondholders, taxpayers, homeowners, workers suffered.

Recently added regulations also require companies to put their remuneration report to a shareholder vote at each annual general meeting.

Italy and Greece, in particular, face serious debt issues amid financial market concerns about the possibility of default or their leaving the euro zone.

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These bonds have some future economic value.