guaranteed interest rate

In general, the longer the maturity and the lower the guaranteed interest rate, the larger the gain for the investor should stock prices rise.

Many insurance companies offer policies with a guaranteed interest rate plus a non-guaranteed dividend.

The account would have a guaranteed interest rate equal to the government's official inflation rate plus three percent.

The guaranteed interest rate was established in the 1980s, when rates were high, to keep lenders in the loan business.

The investor deposits a single lump sum of money into the certificate to earn a guaranteed interest rate.

The guaranteed interest rate on bonds held for six months or more was lowered to 4 percent from 6 percent on March 1.

A certificate allows the investor to make an investment and to earn a guaranteed interest rate for a predetermined amount of time.

Allowing the investor to select a term length (typically between 3 months to 3 years) and earn a guaranteed interest rate.

The industry has attracted huge investment funds based on high indicated or guaranteed interest rates and, in the case of annuities, by Federal income tax preferences.

Executives often receive the equivalent of millions of dollars from special retirement plans, company-paid insurance policies, investment accounts with guaranteed interest rates and lifetime perks.

Index UL participation in the index may have a cap, margin, or other participation modifier, as well as a minimum guaranteed interest rate.

Whole Juvenile Life is permanent whole life insurance that has a minimum guaranteed interest rate, plus a non-guaranteed dividend declared annually by the insurance company.

It allowed the investor to deposit a selected sum of money into the certificate and in turn the investor would receive a guaranteed interest rate after a predetermined amount of time.

Savings Bond Guarantee I purchased Series EE Savings Bonds before Nov. 1, 1986, when the minimum guaranteed interest rate was 7.5 percent.

In the last fiscal year alone, they billed the government for almost $900 million in subsidies at the guaranteed interest rate - more than four times what they received under it just three years before.

More recently, gold-linked bank certificates of deposit - with Federal insurance up to $100,000 but with no guaranteed interest rate - have been issued by the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco.

The bonds, known as LYON's, for liquid yield option notes, are sold at a discount to investors, who have the choice of holding them until maturity and receiving a guaranteed interest rate, or of converting them into common stock.

For example, a risk-averse investor might choose to put his or her money into a bank account with a low but guaranteed interest rate, rather than into a stock that may have high expected returns, but also involves a chance of losing value.

An audit by the inspector general's office found that through a series of financing moves, Nelnet increased the size of its portfolio of loans eligible for the guaranteed interest rate to nearly $3.7 billion in June 2004, from $551 million in March 2003.

Investors have the choice of buying bonds, with a guaranteed interest rate and certainty (barring default) of getting their principal back when the bond matures, or of buying stocks, with a less certain yield from dividends and the possibility that the stock's price could rise or fall.