Concepts Flashcards
A noncallable, AA-rated, 5-year zero-coupon with a yield of 6 percent has all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Inflation risk
b. Interest risk
c. Default risk
d. Reinvestment risk
d. Reinvestment risk
The debt securities that are most often registered according to the requirements of SEC Rule 415 (shelf registration rule) which gives a borrower the maximum flexibility for issuing securities on a continuous basis are called:
Medium-Term Notes
Benchmark bonds serve as the reference interest rate for all other interest rates of similar maturity. Which of the following is not a popular benchmark bond maturity?
a. Ten-year Incorrect
b. Two-year Incorrect
c. Three-year
c. Three-year
Which of the following fixed income market players typically hedge the price risk of its book of inventories of debt securities?
a. Asset Management firms
b. Dealers/Market makers
c. Brokers
d. Commercial Banks
b. Dealers/Market makers
Compared to negotiable CD’s bankers acceptances:
a. less liquid & shorter maturity
b. Are less likely to default Incorrect
c. Are more likely to pay periodic interest
a. less liquid & shorter maturity
Which of the following two sources of bond risk have offsetting effects?
a. Reinvestment risk and default risk
b. Exchange rate risk and volatility risk
c. Interest rate risk and reinvestment risk
c. Interest rate risk and reinvestment risk
Which of the following 5-year bonds has the highest interest rate risk?
a. A floating-rate bond. Incorrect
b. An option-free 5% fixed-coupon bond.
c. zero coupon bonds
c. zero coupon bonds
A 2-year, zero-coupon U.S. Treasury note does NOT have
a. Volatility risk
b. Currency risk
c. Interest rate risk
d. Inflation risk
a. Volatility risk
Which of the following is NOT an example of a US government-sponsored enterprise?
a. Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae)
b. Ginnie Mae
c. Freddie Mac
d. Fannie Mae
b. Ginnie Mae
A mortgage is typically NOT:
a. Subject to early retirement
b. collateralized something
c. amortizing security
d. Characterized by highly predictable cash flows
d. Characterized by highly predictable cash flows
Which of the following municipal bonds typically has the greater risk and is issued with higher yields?
a. Limited tax general obligation bonds
b. Revenue bond
b. Revenue bond
The volatility of a floating-rate security may be reduced by:
a. Eliminating any put features
b. Resetting a longer time coupon rate
c. Resetting coupon rates more frequently
d. Prolonged coupon rate
d. Prolonged coupon rate
Which of the following bonds has the greatest interest rate risk?
a. A 5% 10-year callable bond yielding 4%
b. A 5% 10-year option free bond yielding 4%
c. A 5% 10-year callable bond yielding 6%
d. A 5% 10-year option free yielding 6%
(to look for the greatest risk: lower coupon rate, higher maturity, trades at lower yield)
b. A 5% 10-year option free bond yielding 4%
Which of the following best describes the maximum price for a currently callable bond?
a. Its par value plus accrued interest
b. Its par value
c. Call price
d. Its present par value
c. Call price
An investor is concerned about interest rate risk. Which of the following four bonds (similar except for yield and maturity) has the LEAST interest rate risk? The bond with:
a. 6% yield and 10-year maturity
b. 5% yield and 10-year maturity
a. 6% yield and 10-year maturity
In a repurchase agreement, the seller:
a. Agrees to buy back the collateral security at a lower price at a later date
b. higher price instead of lower
b. higher price instead of lower (something along the line)
Which bond will fluctuate more in price when interest rates change assuming similar yield levels and without any embedded option?
a. 6% 10-year bond
b. 5% 30-year bond
c. 6% 30-year bond
d. 5% 10 year bond
b. 5% 30-year bond
The most common embedded options that are granted to BONDHOLDERS are the following EXCEPT:
a. Floor on a floater
b. cap on a floater
c. conversion privilege
d. right to put
b. cap on a floater
A Yankee bond and a Samurai bond are bonds that are issued and traded in the United States and Japan by issuers that are domiciled in a country other than the U.S. or Japan, respectively. These bonds are referred as:
Foreign bonds