Fixed-Income Analysis Lectures 8 and 9: Active Bond Portfolio Strategies Joëlle Miffre 1 Active Bond Portfolio Strategies Market Timing: Trading on Interest Rate Predictions Riding the Yield Curve Timing Bets Based on Interest-Rates Level When Rates are Expected to Decrease When Rates are Expected to Increase: Roll-Over Strategies Bets on Specific Moves of the Yield Curve Barbell‚ Bullet‚ Ladder‚ Butterfly Other Semi-Hedged Strategies: Ladder Hedged against Slope Movement
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P6–1 Interest rate fundamentals: The real rate of return Carl Foster‚ a trainee at an Investment banking firm‚ is trying to get an idea of what real rate of return investors Are expecting in today’s marketplace. He has looked up the rate paid on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills and found it to be 5.5%. He has decided to use the rate of change In the Consumer Price Index as a proxy for the inflationary expectations of Investors. That annualized rate now stands at 3%. On the basis of the information
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event of liquidation. Answer True False 1 points Question 2 Junk bonds are also called high-yield bonds. Answer True False 1 points Question 3 The expected yield on junk bonds is lower than the yield on AAA-rated bonds because of the higher default risk associated with junk bonds. Answer True False 1 points Question 4 In general‚ interest on bonds‚ like dividends on preferred stock‚ may be deferred until a later date at the discretion
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CHAPTER 4 (MANKIW) INFLATION RATES AND INTEREST RATES: THE FISHER EQUATION NOTES by: Chadia Mathurin Economists differentiate between real and nominal interest rates where: real interest: is defined as the increase or decrease in a consumer’s purchasing power experienced as a result of changes in the interest rate. nominal interest: is defined as the interest payed by the bank. Let: i denote the nominal interest rate r the real interest rate pi ‚ the inflation rate The equation for the
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STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Singapore: Loan vs. bonds in the banking books 504‚ Morya Classic‚ Off New Link Road‚ Andheri (W)‚Mumbai‚ India - 400053 Singapore: Loan vs. bonds in the banking books ______________________________________________________________ Characteristics of corporate loans1 Loan growth2 Total outstanding loans and advances issued by Domestic Banking Units (DBU) stood at SGD 393 billion as of April 2012 with a 20.5% Y-o-Y increase. Total outstanding loans and
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Bond Evaluation‚ Selection‚ and Management‚ Second Edition by R. Stafford Johnson Copyright © 2010 R. Stafford Johnson Answers and Solutions to Select End-of-Chapter Problems CHAPTER 1 1. In the private sector‚ real assets consist of both the tangible and intangible capital goods‚ as well as human capital‚ which are combined with labor to form the business. The business‚ in turn‚ transforms ideas into the production and sale of goods or services that will generate a future stream of
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Corruption of Running a Bail Bonds Business As early as 1912 – over one hundred years ago – critics were concerned that poor people remained in jail while awaiting trial solely because of their inability to pay even small bail amounts‚ that bail bondsmen had become too prominent in the administration of justice and that corruption plagued the industry. The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) feels that the bail bonding industry stands in the way of fair and effective pre-trial justice with much backed
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my household: Barry Bonds. To use those to words was worse than any other expletive in the English language. As I grew older‚ I was astonished to learn that other people did not treat that name with the same infamy that I was taught to use. Some people‚ I learned‚ even considered Bonds to be the greatest player of all time. I was astounded. How could this man‚ whom I had been conditioned to avoid even saying the name of‚ be treated with so much reverence? Barry Bonds‚ for the non-sports
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Bond Interest and Principal Payments A bond is a type of long-term debt that is issued by a corporation and is purchased by an investor for cash. A formal contract is issued by the corporation that states the legal terms of the bond. The advantages of issuing a bond from a corporation is that the ownership interest of the bondholders will not be diluted and those bonds are available at lower costs than the common stocks available. After a bond is issued by the corporation‚ the bondholder is promised
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31) QUALITY OF DRIED FOODS AND DETERIORATIVE REACTIONS DURING DRYING Consumer demand has increased for processed products that keep more of their original characteristics. In industrial terms‚ this requires the development of operations that minimize the adverse effects of processing. The effect of food processing on finished product quality ultimately determines the usefulness and commercial viability of that unit process operation. In the particular case of food drying this indicates that loss
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