You are managing a portfolio of $1.0 million. Your target duration is 18 years, and you can choose from two bonds: a zero-coupon bond with maturity five years and a perpetuity, each currently yielding 4%. Required: a. How much of (i) the zero-coupon bond and (ii) the perpetuity will you hold in your portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) zero-coupon     __% perpetuity bond __% b. How will these fractions change next year if target duration is now seventeen years? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) zero-coupon     __% perpetuity bond __%

Assume that you are considering the purchase of a 11-year, noncallable bond with an annual coupon rate of 8.90%. The bond has a face value of $1000, and it makes semiannual interest payments. If you require an 13.90% yield to maturity on this investment, what is the maximum price you should be willing to pay for the bond? Round your answer to two decimal places. For example, if your answer is $345.6671 round as 345.67 and if your answer is .05718 or 5.7182% round as 5.72.

As an investor with a two-year desired holding period, you have the option of buying a one-year fixed coupon bond now yielding 12% or a two-year fixed coupon bond yielding 11%. If the current forward rate of interest on future one-year bonds to be delivered one year hence were 9%, which investment would you select?

Jeremy Kohn is planning to invest in a 6-year bond that pays a 12 percent coupon. The current market rate for similar bonds is 8 percent. Assume semiannual coupon payments. What is the maximum price that should be paid for this bond? (Do not round intermediate computations. Round your final answer to the nearest dollar.) O $951 O $1,000 O $1,188 O $1,056

A 5.75 percent coupon bond with 10 years left to maturity is priced to offer a 6.5 percent yield to maturity. You believe that in one year, the yield to maturity will be 5.8 percent. Assuming semiannual interest payments, what is the change in price the bond will experience in dollars? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.

An investor has two bonds in his portfolio that have a face value of $1,000 and pay a 12% annual coupon. Bond L matures in 15 years, while Bond S matures in 1 year. a. What will the value of the Bond L be if the going interest rate is 6%, 8%, and 13% ? Assume that only one more interest payment is to be made on Bond S at its maturity and that 15 more payments are to be made on Bond L. Round your answers to the nearest cent. 6% Bond L $ Bond S $ $ $ -Select- 8% $ $ 13% b. Why does the longer-term bond's price vary more than the price of the shorter-term bond when interest rates change? I. Long-term bonds have lower reinvestment rate risk than do short-term bonds. II. The change in price due to a change in the required rate of return increases as a bond's maturity decreases. III. Long-term bonds have greater interest rate risk than do short-term bonds. IV. The change in price due to a change in the required rate of return decreases as a bond's maturity increases. V. Long-term bonds have…

An insurance company is thinking about purchasing bonds A and B with zero coupons to cover some of its future liabilities. The redemption periods for these zero-coupon bonds are seven and twenty years, respectively.£11 million is due in 11 years, and £14 million is due in 16 years, according to the list of its liabilities.Determine bond B's value at an effective 5% annual interest rate so that Redington's theory of immunization's first two requirements are met. (correct answer=6.419) (using formulas, no tables)

A 6.25 percent coupon bond with 15 years left to maturity is priced to offer a yield to maturity of 7.5 percent. You believe that in one year, the yield to maturity will be 7.0 percent. Assuming semiannual interest payments, what is the change in price the bond will experience in dollars? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)

You are considering the purchase of a coupon bond with a face value of $1,000, which matures in 14 years, and pays 4.15% (annual) coupons. If you require a return of 3.50% on this instrument, how much would you offer to pay for it today? [Present the answer rounded to two decimal places, e.g. 1035.16]

Suppose you purchase a zero coupon bond with a face value of $1000, maturing in 20 years, for $213.20. zero coupon bond pay the investor the face value on the maturity date. What is the implicit interest in the first year of the bond's life ?