Souktani In partial fulfillment of INT 4300 - Internship School of Business Administration Bond Portfolio Management: Measures of profitability & risks Hicham Reghay Dr. Ahmed Baijou Fall Term 2011 * Executive summary: The scope of my internship was to be familiarized with the bond market and their measure of risk and performance and to know what are the tools used in the company to manage bond portfolios risks (Duration‚ convexity‚ sensitivity). However‚ these tools assume a parallel
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Chapter 8 Valuing Bonds 8-1. A 30-year bond with a face value of $1000 has a coupon rate of 5.5%‚ with semiannual payments. a. What is the coupon payment for this bond? b. Draw the cash flows for the bond on a timeline. a. The coupon payment is: [pic] b. The timeline for the cash flows for this bond is (the unit of time on this timeline is six-month periods): [pic] 8-2. Assume that a bond will make payments every six months as
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of a zero coupon bond which pays $1 in half-year n. In the next two columns there are the cash flows of two bonds‚ A and B. Essentially‚ bond A pays a 20% semi-annual coupon and bond B pays a 10% semi-annual coupon. Both bonds mature in 2.5 years‚ when each also pays its principal of 100. Assume semi-annual compounding. Half Year 1 2 3 4 5 n Bond A Bond B .95 .91 .87 .80 .70 10 10 10 10 110 5 5 5 5 105 A. Calculate the price of each bond assuming there are
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The roles the villains/ nemesis play within the Bond novels isn’t unique per say‚ but without them‚ there would definitely be no Bond novels. Each villain Bond faces shapes who Bond is as a character. They test Bond’s limits and they provide him with the tools to make himself look good within the novel and films. Every good guy has a bad guy to fight type situation is what we see in the Bond novels. Though Bond is tortured and put to the test by these villains‚ he always comes out on top. The villain
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5 Bond Yields for Johnson & Johnson Objective: The case enables the student to gain insight into the financing activities of large corporations and to practice calculating bond prices and yields. Computations are carried out for annual and semiannual interest periods‚ and for fractional periods. Case Discussion: Johnson & Johnson is one of the leading pharmaceutical firms in the world. It is large and financially sophisticated. When it needs to borrow money‚ it sells bonds where
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in Emerging Corporate Bond: Chapter Bangladesh Md. Shahriar Parvez* Abstract: Purpose: A corporate bond is a bond issued by a corporation. It is a bond that a corporation issues to raise money in order to expand its business. The term is usually applied to longerterm debt instruments‚ generally with a maturity date falling at least a year after their issue date. The study focuses on Bond market development in Bangladesh‚ an emerging market. The policy environment for bond market development in
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WHY I WANT TO EXCUTE A TRAINING BOND Knowledge is power and knowledge‚ once imparted‚ cannot be retrieved. Organizations make very important investments in its people’s knowledge by way of trainings‚ and as expected from any investment‚ returns in form of improved work quality‚ increased productivity‚ lower turnaround times‚ and higher profits and/ or a larger market share are expected. Signing a training bond is predominantly conceived to be a form of legalized and consented employee slavery; however
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Stocks versus Bonds: Explaining the Equity Risk Premium Clifford S. Asness From the 19th century through the mid-20th century‚ the dividend yield (dividends/price) and earnings yield (earnings/price) on stocks generally exceeded the yield on long-term U.S. government bonds‚ usually by a substantial margin. Since the mid-20th century‚ however‚ the situation has radically changed. In addressing this situation‚ I argue that the difference between stock yields and bond yields is driven by the long-run
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The Harvard Management Company and Inflation Protected Bonds The Harvard Management Company is an entity wholly owned by Harvard University and it is responsible for managing Harvard’s endowment and pension assets. At the end of the second quarter of 2000‚ Harvard Management Co. oversaw the management of $19 billion‚ the majority of it managed internally by Harvard’s investment professionals. The endowment’s goal is to provide a real return of 6%-7%‚ of which 4%-5% would be distributed annually
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qualities that I felt James Bond most possessed throughout the story were determination‚ bravery‚ and intelligence. In the next several paragraphs I will explain how incidents in the story revealed each quality portrayed by James Bond. Determination In the beginning of the story a drug lord named‚ Frans Sanchez‚ severely injures James Bond’s partner‚ Felix Leiter‚ and kills his wife Della Leiter after escaping an attempted arrest by Felix. After this incident Bond becomes determined
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