The term structure of interest rates is flat at 5%. You want to immunize a $1,000 maturing in 5 years. To do so you may invest in a combination of following •Bond A: 10-year zero coupon bond, FV=100 Bond B: 3-year 10% coupon bond, FV=100 What are your portfolio weights on Bond A and Bond B?

Consider a bond that is currently priced at $1100.  If the face value of the bond is $1000, coupon payments are made semiannually, the bond matures in 5 years, and the YTM is 3%, what is the coupon rate? Group of answer choices 5.17% 2.58% 3.00% $25.84

Suppose that you want to construct a 2-year maturity forward loan commencing in 3 years. The face value of each bond is $1,000. Maturity (Years) 1 2 3 4 5 Price $ 996.04 895.89 833.92 772.80 675.18 Required: a. Suppose that you buy today one 3-year maturity zero-coupon bond with face value $1,000. How many 5-year maturity zeros would you have to sell to make your initial cash flow equal to zero (specifically, what must be the total face value of those 5-year zeros)? b. What are the cash flows on this strategy in each year? c. What is the effective 2-year interest rate on the effective 3-year-ahead forward loan? d. & e. Confirm that the effective 2-year forward interest rate equals (1 + f4) ×(1 + f5)-1. You therefore can interpret the 2-year loan rate as a 2-year forward rate for the last two years. Alternatively, show that the effective 2-year forward rate equals (1 + y5) 15 + (1+y3) ³. - 1

What is the price of a bond with the following information? It is 1.5 years until expiration. The coupon rate is 7 percent and coupon payments are made once per year. The market rate of return is 5.9 percent. The bond has a face value of 2000 SEK. Tips Draw a time axis so that you do not make any mistakes with the discounting. Don't look at the cash flows as an annuity, but as two separate cash flows. There is always a coupon payment when the bond matures, how long is it then until the next coupon payment? (Answers are rounded to integers) a) 265 b) 2100 c) 1971 d) 1990 e) 2216