Fight Finance

(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) A bullet loan has no interest payments but it does have a face value. Therefore it's a discount loan.

(b) A fully amortising loan has interest payments but does not have a face value. Therefore it's a premium loan.

(c) An interest only loan has interest payments and its price and face value are equal. Therefore it's a par loan.

(d) A zero coupon bond has no coupon payments but it does have a face value. Therefore it's a premium bond.

(e) A balloon loan has interest payments and its face value is more than its price. Therefore it's a discount loan.

(a) $71.2986

(b) $62.0921

(c) $61.5028

(d) $54.276

(e) $53.5612

(a) Asset A has the same systematic risk as asset B.

(b) Asset A has more total variance than asset B.

(c) Asset B has zero idiosyncratic risk. Asset B must be a portfolio of half the market portfolio and half government bonds.

(d) If risk-averse investors were forced to invest all of their wealth in a single risky asset, so they could not diversify, every investor would logically choose asset A over the other three assets.

(e) Assets M and B have the highest Sharpe ratios, which is defined as the gradient of the capital allocation line (CAL) from the government bonds through the asset on the graph of expected return versus total standard deviation.

It's possible for both parties in a futures or forward contract to be hedging, so neither are speculating. or ?

(a) Mr Blue's expected utility of wealth from gambling is 7.5 while refusing is 6.25. So the gamble makes him more happy.

(b) Miss Red's expected utility of wealth from gambling is 7.5 and refusing is also 7.5. This is why she is indifferent.

(c) Mr Blue's certainty equivalent of the risky gamble is $70.71. So he would pay to take part in the gamble.

(d) Miss Red's certainty equivalent of the risky gamble is $50.

(e) Mrs Green's certainty equivalent of the risky gamble is $70.71. She would enjoy taking part in the gamble.

If a stock's future expected continuously compounded annual returns are normally distributed, what will be bigger, the stock's or continuously compounded annual return? Or would you expect them to be ?

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(a) A one cent ($0.01) increase in the underlying stock price is expected to lead to a 0.747891 cent ($0.00747891) increase in the call option price.

(b) The (risk-neutral) probability of the call option maturing ‘in-the-money’ is 0.643514.

(c) A one cent ($0.01) increase in the underlying stock price is expected to lead to a 0.00053199 unit increase in the call option Delta.

(d) The underlying stocks’ standard deviation of returns per day is 0.015702718 assuming 365 days per year and zero auto-correlation.

(e) After one day, all other things remaining equal, the option price is expected to fall by $1.566433 assuming 365 days per year.

(a) RMB 21,443,400

(b) RMB 1,833,333

(c) RMB 592,089

(d) RMB 545,455

(e) RMB 46,634