The Swiss Bond Indexes (SBI®) reflect developments in the CHF-denominated bond market. By providing information on domestic interest rates, they supply valuable macroeconomic data on the Swiss capital market. Each bond issue must have a remaining term to maturity of at least 1 year and an issue volume of at least CHF 100 million. In addition, only bonds with a fixed interest rate are included in the SBI®. The rating is also a criterion: domestic bonds must have at least a rating of “AA”, while only “AAA” bonds are considered for the foreign segment.

Key Features and Coverage on RIMES

For this data source, RIMES hosts approximately 10200 bonds and 320 indices. Index coverage includes: SBI Corporates, Domestic, Foreign, Government Indices, Swiss Bond Index, etc.

Some of the data items available include:

• Company Bond Items – admission date, band weight, coupon frequency, deletion date, description, domain, earliest, redemption date, index flag, investible weight, isin, iso currency, market value in loc, maturity date, notional outstanding value in loc, repayment at maturity, symbol, ticker, yield to worst flag, etc.
• Historical Bond Items – accrued interest, coupon, duration to worst, full market value in loc, last coupon payment date, next coupon payment date, notional outstanding value in loc, price, yield to worst, etc.
• Index Items – average duration, average yield, description, market value in loc, notional outstanding value in loc, number of constituents, price index, total return in loc, etc.