FINE 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Floating Rate Note, Ordinary Income, Interest Rate Risk

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Catastrophe bond a bond that allows the issuer to transfer catastrophe risk from the firm to the capital markets. Investors in these bonds receive a compensation for taking on the risk in the form of higher coupon rates. In the event of a catastrophe, the bondholders will give up all or part of their investments. Investors receive par value at the maturity date but receive no interest payments until then. Also known as high-yield bonds: convertible bond a bond that gives the bondholders an option to exchange the bond for a specified number of shares of common stock of the firm, serial bonds bonds issued with staggered maturity dates. As bonds mature sequentially, the principal repayment burden for the firm is spread over time: equipment obligation bond a collateralized bond in which the collateral is equipment owned by the firm.

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Ms. Alumm is the portfolio manager for a large insurance company. She is considering investing $1 million to purchase the bonds of Patriot Enterprises, Inc.
[A] All of Patriot's bonds have market prices that imply a yield to maturity of 8% "bond equivalent yield" (that is, 4% every 6-month period).1 Each Patriot bond is described here, based on a
$1,000 face value (par value), which is the promised payment at maturity.

. Bond A has five years until maturity and pays a 9% coupon yield ($45 every 6 months on a $1,000 face value bond).
. Bond B has ten years until maturity, pays an 8% coupon yield ($40 semiannual payments), and is being offered in a private placement at par.
. Bond C is a zero-coupon bond that pays no explicit interest, but will pay the face amount of $1,000 per bond at maturity in ten years.
1. At what price should each bond sell currently?

[B] Ms. Alumm realizes that in addition to determining the current prices of these bonds, she would also like to know how these prices might respond to changing interest rates once her company has purchased them.
2. After purchasing the bonds at an 8% bond-equivalent yield, what would happen to the price of each bond, and how much money would the company make if market yields on Patriot bonds fall to 6%?. . . rise to 10%?

[C] As an alternative, Ms. Alumm has been invited to invest $1 million in a private placement of a 10-year Eurobond2 of a second firm, Nationaliste, S.A. Nationaliste bonds are similar in risk to "Bond B" above: they promise an 8% coupon yield for 10 years, but coupons are paid annually, not semiannually. The Nationaliste bonds are priced at a 1% discount from par, or $990 per $1,000 face value.
3. What yield to maturity is implied by the Nationaliste Eurobond? Compare this yield to the 8% "bondequivalent yield" of the Patriot semiannual coupon bond (Bond B) above. What should Ms. Alumm do?

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QUESTION 1 The largest investors in corporate bonds are life insurance companies and pension funds. True False 5 points QUESTION 2 Most secondary market transactions for corporate bonds take place through dealers in the over-the-counter (OTC) market. True False 5 points QUESTION 3 The value (or price) of a bond is the present value of its expected future cash flows. True False 5 points QUESTION 4 Bond prices decline when the interest rate decreases. True False 5 points QUESTION 5 The face or par value for bonds is the amount paid to bondholders at maturity and is usually equal to $1,000. True False 5 points QUESTION 6 The yield to maturity of a bond is the discount rate that makes the present value of the coupon and principal payments equal to the price of the bond. True False 5 points QUESTION 7 Zero coupon bonds have no coupon payments so they sell for more than their par value. True False 5 points QUESTION 8 Interest rate risk is the risk that bond prices will fluctuate when the interest rate changes. True False 5 points QUESTION 9 US Treasury securities are considered risky investments because the coupon payments are unpredictable. True False 5 points QUESTION 10 Bonds are very difficult to value because their future cash flows are very difficult to predict. True False 5 points QUESTION 11 If the bond's coupon rate is equal to the market rate then the bond will sell at a price equal to its face value greater than its face value less than its face value equal to its foreign currency value, e.g., its price in British pounds 5 points QUESTION 12 When calculating the price of a bond that pays a semiannual coupon one needs to use double the number of years until maturity for the number of payments use half the annual coupon payment use half the annual rate of return as the discount rate all of the above 5 points QUESTION 13 The yield to maturity of a bond is the discount rate that makes the present value of the coupon and principal payments more than the price of the bond equal to zero equal to the price of the bond less than the price of the bond 5 points QUESTION 14 Which one of the following statements is true? All else equal long-term bonds have lower price volatility than short-term bonds. There is an inverse relation between bond prices and market interest rates. All else equal short-term bonds are more risky than long-term bonds. All else equal US government bonds are more risky than corporate bonds. 5 points QUESTION 15 An investor owns a 10-year US government bond with a 9 percent coupon rate. If the yield-to-maturity on the bond is 8 percent then this bond is selling for its par value. a discount. a premium. its face value. 5 points QUESTION 16 BA Corp is issuing a 10-year bond with a coupon rate of 8 percent and a par value of $1,000. The market interest rate on similar bonds is currently 6 percent. If the coupon payments are made annually, what is the value of this bond? 5 points QUESTION 17 Knight, Inc. has issued a 3-year bond with a $1,000 par value and an annual coupon rate of 6 percent. The current market rate of interest is 5 percent. What is the value of this bond if the coupon payments are made semiannually? 5 points QUESTION 18 Diane Carter is interested in buying a 5-year zero coupon bond with a face value of $5,000. If the market interest rate on these types of bonds is currently 9 percent, what is the current price of this bond? 5 points QUESTION 19 Rudy Sandberg wants to invest in 4-year bonds that are currently priced at $933.76. The bonds have a coupon rate of 6 percent and annual coupon payments. If the par value of the bonds is $1,000, what is the bond's yield-to-maturity? 5 points QUESTION 20 You own a 5-year bond with a face value of $1,000 and a coupon rate of 5 percent with annual payments. The bond is currently worth $810.46. If market interest rates remain unchanged, what will be the value of the bond next year when there are 4 years left until maturity?

The (-Select- A. discount B. premium C. par) value of a bond is its stated face value or maturity value, and its coupon interest rate is the stated annual interest rate on the bond. The maturity date is the date on which the par value must be repaid. A (-Select- A. call B. redemption C. sinking) provision gives the issuer the right to redeem the bonds under specified terms prior to their normal maturity date, although not all bonds have this provision. Some bonds have (-Select- A. redemption fund B. sinking fund C. call fund) provisions which require the issuer to systematically retire a portion of the bond issue each year. Because sinking fund provisions facilitate their orderly retirement, bonds with these provisions are regarded as being (-Select-A. riskier B. safer C. equivalent) so they will have (-Select- A. lower B. equivalent C. higher) coupon rates than similar bonds without these provisions.

Bonds can be (-Select- A. floating B. zero C. fixed) -rate bonds with a constant coupon rate over the life of the bond, or they can be (-Select- A. floating B. zero C. fixed) -rate bonds with a coupon rate that varies over time depending on the level of interest rates. (-Select- A. Annual coupon B. Zero coupon C. Fixed coupon) bonds pay no annual interest but are sold at a (-Select- A. premium above B. price at C. discount below) par, thus compensating investors in the form of capital appreciation. An original issue discount (OID) bond is any bond originally offered at a price (-Select- A. above its B. below its C. equal to) par value.

(-Select- A. Convertible B. Perpetual C. Putable) bonds are exchangeable at the option of the holder for the issuing firm's common stock. Bonds can be issued with warrants giving the holder the option to purchase the firm's stock for a stated price, thereby providing a capital gain if the stock's price rises. (-Select- A. Income B. Convertible C. Putable) bonds contain a provision that allows holders to sell them back to the company prior to maturity at a prearranged price. (-Select- A. Income B. Default C. Preferred) bonds pay interest only if the firm has earnings, while an indexed (purchasing power) bond bases interest payments on an inflation index to protect the holder from inflation.

Mortgage bonds are backed by (-Select- A. current assets B. fixed assets C. marketable securities) . First mortgage bonds are senior in priority to claims of second mortgage bonds. Debentures are long-term bonds that are not secured by a mortgage. Subordinated debentures are bonds having claims on assets only after senior debt has been paid in full in the event of liquidation. (-Select- A. Secured-debenture B. Investment-grade) bonds are rated triple B or higher, and many banks and other institutional investors are legally limited to only holding these bonds. In contrast, junk bonds are high-risk, high-yield bonds.

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