Fight Finance

(a) a ten-year bond with a $4000 face value whose yield to maturity is 6.0% and coupon rate is 6.5% paid semi-annually.

(b) a 6-year bond with a principal of $40,000 and a price of $45,000.

(c) a 15-year bond with a $10,000 face value whose yield to maturity is 8.0% and coupon rate is 10.0% paid semi-annually.

(d) a two-year bond with a $50,000 face value whose yield to maturity is 5.2% and coupon rate is 5.2% paid semi-annually.

(e) None of the above bonds are discount bonds.

After one year, would you be able to buy , exactly the as or than today with the money in this account?

(a) Point A.

(b) Point B.

(c) Point C.

(d) Any of the points.

(e) None of the points.

(a) Selling government bonds.

(b) Buying a call option on the company's assets.

(c) Buying a put option on the company's assets.

(d) Selling a call option on the company's assets.

(e) Selling a put option on the company's assets.

(a) $21.01

(b) 21.01

(c) $18.75

(d) 18.75

(e) 18.75%

(a) ##\pi_{LP}=-max⁡(S_T-X_T,0) - f_{LP,0}##

(b) ##\pi_{LP}=-max⁡(X_T-S_T,0) + f_{LP,0}##

(c) ##\pi_{LP}=max⁡(S_T-X_T,0) - f_{LP,0}##

(d) ##\pi_{LP}=max⁡(X_T-S_T,0) + f_{LP,0}##

(e) ##\pi_{LP}=max(X_T-S_T,0) - f_{LP,0}##

(a) Prices, ##P_1##.

(b) Gross discrete returns per annum, ##r_{\text{gdr 0 }\rightarrow \text{ 1}} = \dfrac{P_1}{P_0} ##.

(c) Effective annual returns per annum also known as net discrete returns, ##r_{\text{eff 0 }\rightarrow \text{ 1}} = \dfrac{P_1 - P_0}{P_0} = \dfrac{P_1}{P_0}-1##.

(d) Continuously compounded returns per annum, ##r_{\text{cc 0 }\rightarrow \text{ 1}} = \ln \left( \dfrac{P_1}{P_0} \right)##.

(e) Annualised percentage rates compounding per month, ##r_{\text{apr comp monthly 0 }\rightarrow \text{ 1 mth}} = \left( \dfrac{P_1 - P_0}{P_0} \right) \times 12##.

(a) Area A contains ideal portfolios but unfortunately these portfolios are unattainable.

(b) Area B portfolios are only attainable if investors can borrow at the risk free rate, meaning that they can risklessly short sell government bonds and only pay the risk free rate to do so.

(c) Area C contains all individual risky assets and portfolios of those risky assets.

(d) Area D portfolios are only attainable if investors can borrow at the risk free rate, meaning that they can risklessly short sell government bonds and only pay the risk free rate to do so, similarly to Area B.

(e) Area E contains unattainable portfolios.

(a) The futures are over-priced.

(b) One future should be sold.

(c) One stock should be sold.

(d) A 2 year zero coupon bond with a face value at maturity of $24 should be sold.

(e) The gain now will be $1.7161 per futures contract with zero cash flows in the future.

(a) Coupon rate is equal to the benchmark rate plus a premium.

(b) Premium is also commonly called a spread or margin.

(c) Premium rate is fixed. The number is written in the bond contract and does not change.

(d) Benchmark rate is fixed. The number is written in the bond contract and does not change.

(e) Paying quarterly US dollar coupons often use the 90-day USD LIBOR rate as the benchmark.