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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Chapter 1 P 23 Case study 1 1. For case scenario 1 What are the duties owed by Ming? Ming answers to Bing Ho‚ to the company‚ the stakeholders and the board of directors The duties that Ming takes as an employee are * Accountability * Objectivity * Integrity * Honesty/duty of care Is there any conflict of interest faced by Ming as an assistant accountant in Wholesalers Ltd? Ming V Bing Decide to go with Bing’s guide as instructed or record Bing’s fraudulent discrepancy
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for X and Y. Year X Y 1 8% 16% 2 21 38 3 17 14 4 -16 -21 5 9 26 2) You bought one of the Great White Shark Repellant Co’s 8 per cent coupon bonds one year ago for $1030. These bonds make annual payments and mature six years from now. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today ‚when the required return on the bonds is 7 per cent .If the inflation rate was 4.2 per cent over the past year ‚what was your total real return on investment ? 3) A stock has had returns of 3 per cent
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A Comparison between Two War Bonds Ads During the Second World War‚ the United States‚ like many other nations at the time‚ made heavy use of propaganda and advertisements to support the war effort‚ inspiring citizens to ration supplies‚ donate money‚ or even enlist as a soldier. These advertisements would invoke feelings of patriotism‚ unity‚ and affiliation for its readers‚ urging the necessity of the reader’s support despite not always being financially beneficial for the donator. Out of all the
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1. A WELL-WRITTEN ARTICLE. The article chosen is entitled “GANGSTERISM AND YOUTH” and The article is written by Ustaz Maulana Abdullah Akbarshah. The article presents the factors of gangstersim in worldwide. The article is well-written article because the writer use facts in its article‚ the arguments are supported by strong and systematic evidences and the references used are relevant and current. First‚ it is a well-written article because the article provides factual information. Paragraph
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Vibration- Rotation Spectroscopy of HCl and DCl Purpose: To determine the fundamental vibration frequency and bond length for H35Cl‚ H37Cl‚ D35Cl‚ and D37Cl and to compare the isotope effects to theoretically predicted values. Introduction Vibration spectroscopy is one of the most important tools for the accurate determination of molecular structure. Vibration spectroscopy also plays an important role in environmental chemistry. For example‚ the albedo of the earth’s atmosphere is controlled by the
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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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With liquidly rationing‚ (credit crunch) does offering covered bonds hold the answer or does it just offer banks the opportunity to increase their margin?. Discuss critically. Introduction In the modern day world‚ with technology and global markets expanding‚ the need for credit is a constant issue for economies to monitor. Liquidity rationing has been most relevant since the GFC‚ when the credit market essentially froze‚ sending financial markets in turmoil. Therefore finding ways to increase
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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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