You hold a bond portfolio that consists of (i) a 4-year bond with a face value of $100 that pays an annual coupon of 10%, and (ii) a 2-year bond with a face value of $100 that pays an annual coupon of 20%. The yield curve is flat at ? = 5%. You are worried about fluctuations in the price of your portfolio. Explain how you can hedge your risk using 3-year zero-coupon bonds with a face value of £100.

Longer maturity bonds have low Blank 1 risk but high Blank 2 risk, while higher coupon bonds have a lower level of Blank 3 risk and a higher level of Blank 4 risk. To account for the effects related to both a bond's maturity and coupon, many analysts focus on a measure called duration, which is the Blank 5 of the time it takes to receive each of the bond's cash flows.

9. Interest Rate Risk. Suppose that you are a fixed income portfolio manager at Bourbon Street Capital. You have the following bonds issued by Royal, Inc. and Chartres, LLC in your portfolio and you want to understand the risk profile of your portfolio. Given that both bonds pay semiannual coupons, answer the following questions. (Remember to convert your answer to units of full years.) Coupon Yield to maturity Maturity (years) Royal, Inc. Chartres, LLC. Bond A Bond B 9% 8% 5 $100.00 $104.055 8% 8% 2 Par $100.00 Price $100.00 (a) What is the DV01 (at current prices) for bonds A and B? (b) What are the Macaulay Durations (at current prices) for the two bonds? (c) What are the modified durations for the two bonds? (d) What is the convexity of the two bonds?

By looking at the sensivities of your portfolio to ds = -$2 and So = -1%, you decide to hedge delta, gamma and Vega risk of your portfolio with the underlying stock and two different options on the same asset with below data. Calculate the units of stock you need to trade to hedge away all delta, gamma and Vega risks of your portfolio.(Note that here you have to calculate the units of stock, Option A and Option B, but you will only submit the units of stock.) Variable Option A Option B Delta (A) -0.5 0.2 Gamma (T) 0.2 0.1 Vega (v) 8

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If you believe that the 10-1 spread will eventually get close to 0, but do not know whether the overall level of the yield curve will increase or decrease, which bond (s) do you short? Which bond (s) do you buy?

For the yield-to-maturity (YTM) to qual the actual compound return an investor realizes on an investment in a coupon bond, we must assume: O A. cash flows will be paid as promised. B. The bond will be held until maturity. C. cash flows will be reinvested at the YTM rate. D. All of the above.

1. Suppose you have n risky assets you can combine in a portfolio. Each risky asset has an expected return of 8% and a standard deviation of 30%. The risky assets are uncorrelated with each other. (a) Consider an equally weighted portfolio of 2 of these securities. What is its expected return? What will its standard deviation be? (b) Consider an equally weighted portfolio of 30 of these securities. What is its expected return? What will its standard deviation be? (c) Suppose we let the number of these securities increase without bound. That is, n→ ∞o. What happens to the standard deviation of an equally weighted portfolio of these securities as the number of assets in the portfolio becomes extremely large? What will the riskless rate be in this case, and why? -int IDE

You want to create a $72,000 portfolio comprised of two stocks plus a risk-free security. Stock A has an expected return of 13.6 percent and Stock B has an expected return of 14.7 percent. You want to own $25,000 of Stock B. The risk-free rate is 3.6 percent and the expected return on the market is 12.1 percent. If you want the portfolio to have an expected return equal to that of the market, how much should you invest in the risk-free security? Seleccione una: O a. $12,775 Qb. $13,315 O c. $13,550 O d. $12,987 O e. $12,921 4

Suppose you are considering two possible investment opportunities: a 12-year Treasury bond and a 7-year, AA-rated corporate bond. The current real risk-free rate is 3%, and inflation is expected to be 2% for the next 2 years, 3% for the following 4 years, and 4% thereafter. The maturity risk premium is estimated by this formula: MRP = 0.02(t - 1)%. The liquidity premium (LP) for the corporate bond is estimated to be 0.3%. You may determine the default risk premium (DRP), given the company's bond rating, from the following table. Remember to subtract the bond's LP from the corporate spread given in the table to arrive at the bond's DRP.       Corporate Bond Yield   Rate Spread = DRP + LP U.S. Treasury 0.73 % — AAA corporate 0.93   0.20 % AA corporate 1.33   0.60   A corporate 1.75   1.02     What yield would you predict for each of these two investments? Round your answers to three decimal places. 12-year Treasury yield: 6.553%----->correct 7-year Corporate yield: ? %…