Ok if someone has bonds, how do they turn them into cash?
I ask after reading abt a poor man who stole a briefcase, filled with £2million of Bonds. He was illiterate and discarded them, only to be told by the police later what he discarded. He obviously cried.
But the Q is (a) what is a Bond and (b) how does one turn bonds into money in an account.
Re: How to Bond’s work?
A bond is a debt security, similar to an I.O.U. When you purchase a bond, you are lending money to a government, municipality, corporation, federal agency or other entity known as the issuer. In return for the loan, the issuer promises to pay you a specified rate of interest during the life of the bond and to repay the face value of the bond (the principal) when it “matures,” or comes due.
Among the types of bonds you can choose from are: U.S. government securities, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage and asset—backed securities, federal agency securities and foreign government bonds.
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Re: How to Bond's work?
And how are they turned into cash by people who stumble upon them?