An embedded option is a component of a financial bond or other security, which provides the bondholder or the issuer the right to take some action against the other party. There are several types of options that can be embedded into a bond; common types of bonds with embedded options include

callable bond A callable bond (also called redeemable bond) is a type of bond (debt security) that allows the issuer of the bond to retain the privilege of redeeming the bond at some point before the bond reaches its date of maturity. In other words, on the call ...

, puttable bond,

convertible bond In finance, a convertible bond or convertible note or convertible debt (or a convertible debenture if it has a maturity of greater than 10 years) is a type of bond that the holder can convert into a specified number of shares of common stock i ...

, extendible bond, exchangeable bond, and capped

floating rate note Floating rate notes (FRNs) are bonds that have a variable coupon, equal to a money market reference rate, like LIBOR or federal funds rate, plus a quoted spread (also known as quoted margin). The spread is a rate that remains constant. Almost all ...

. A bond may have several options embedded if they are not

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Securities A security is a tradable financial asset. The term commonly refers to any form of financial instrument, but its legal definition varies by jurisdiction. In some countries and languages people commonly use the term "security" to refer to any fo ...

other than bonds that may have embedded options include senior equity,

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preferred stock Preferred stock (also called preferred shares, preference shares, or simply preferreds) is a component of share capital that may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock, including properties of both an equity and a debt inst ...

and exchangeable preferred stock. See

Convertible security A convertible security is a financial instrument whose holder has the right to convert it into another security of the same issuer. Most convertible securities are convertible bonds or preferred stocks that pay regular interest and can be converted ...

. The valuation of these securities couples bond- or equity-valuation, as appropriate, with

option pricing In finance, a price (premium) is paid or received for purchasing or selling options. This article discusses the calculation of this premium in general. For further detail, see: for discussion of the mathematics; Financial engineering for the imple ...

. For bonds here, there are two main approaches, as follows.''Pricing Interest Rate-dependent Financial Claims with Option Features''
Ch11 in: Richard Rendleman (2002). Applied Derivatives: Options, Futures, and Swaps (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. . (Other securities with embedded derivatives are priced similarly.) Once the price has been calculated, the various yields can then be calculated for the security. # Depending on the type of option, the option price, as calculated using the Black–Scholes ( or other) model, is either added to or subtracted from the price of the "straight" bond (i.e. as if it had no optionality) and this total is then the value of the bond. # A bespoke "

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" (usually a lattice-based

short-rate model A short-rate model, in the context of interest rate derivatives, is a mathematical model that describes the future evolution of interest rates by describing the future evolution of the short rate, usually written r_t \,. The short rate Under a sh ...

) may be constructed where the option's effect is incorporated at each node in the tree, impacting either the bond price or the option price as specified; see

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under

bond option In finance, a bond option is an option to buy or sell a bond at a certain price on or before the option expiry date. These instruments are typically traded OTC. *A European bond option is an option to buy or sell a bond at a certain date in fut ...

. Calculating rate-sensitivities on these instruments is complicated: the embedded features make measures such as duration and

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(and DV01) less meaningful; and analysts instead use effective duration and effective convexity.

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