# Fight Finance

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A stock pays annual dividends which are expected to continue forever. It just paid a dividend of $10. The growth rate in the dividend is 2% pa. You estimate that the stock's required return is 10% pa. Both the discount rate and growth rate are given as effective annual rates. Using the dividend discount model, what will be the share price? A three year bond has a fixed coupon rate of 12% pa, paid semi-annually. The bond's yield is currently 6% pa. The face value is$100. What is its price?

There are a number of ways that assets can be depreciated. Generally the government's tax office stipulates a certain method.

But if it didn't, what would be the ideal way to depreciate an asset from the perspective of a businesses owner?

Your friend overheard that you need some cash and asks if you would like to borrow some money. She can lend you $5,000 now (t=0), and in return she wants you to pay her back$1,000 in two years (t=2) and every year after that for the next 5 years, so there will be 6 payments of $1,000 from t=2 to t=7 inclusive. What is the net present value (NPV) of borrowing from your friend? Assume that banks loan funds at interest rates of 10% pa, given as an effective annual rate. An asset's total expected return over the next year is given by: $$r_\text{total} = \dfrac{c_1+p_1-p_0}{p_0}$$ Where $p_0$ is the current price, $c_1$ is the expected income in one year and $p_1$ is the expected price in one year. The total return can be split into the income return and the capital return. Which of the following is the expected capital return? Which one of the below option and futures contracts gives the possibility of potentially unlimited gains? Which of the following quantities from the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing formula gives the Delta of a European put option? Short selling is a way to make money from falling prices. In what order must the following steps be completed to short-sell an asset? Let Tom, Dick and Harry be traders in the share market. • Step P: Purchase the asset from Harry. • Step G: Give the asset to Tom. • Step W: Wait and hope that the asset price falls. • Step B: Borrow the asset from Tom. • Step S: Sell the asset to Dick. Select the statement with the correct order of steps. A 12 month European-style call option with a strike price of$11 is written on a dividend paying stock currently trading at $10. The dividend is paid annually and the next dividend is expected to be$0.40, paid in 9 months. The risk-free interest rate is 5% pa continuously compounded and the standard deviation of the stock’s continuously compounded returns is 30% pa. The stock's continuously compounded returns are normally distributed. Using the Black-Scholes-Merton option valuation model, determine which of the following statements is NOT correct.

A 90 day bank bill has a face value of \$100,000.

Investor A bought the bill when it was first issued at a simple yield to maturity of 3% pa and sold it 20 days later to Investor B who expected to earn a simple yield to maturity of 5% pa. Investor B held it until maturity.

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?