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Riding the Yield Curve

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When the yield curve is upward sloping, investors can hold longer term maturity bond than their investment horizon to earn excess return

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The Swap Rate Curve

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Benchmark measure of interest rates. Represents fixed-rate leg in an interest rate swap

Swap Spread = Swap Rate - Treasury Bond Yield

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Z- Spread

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Spread when added to each spot rate on yield curvemakes the PV of a bond’s CF = the bond’s market price

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TED Spread

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Amount LIBOR exceeds overnight indexed swap rate (OIS)

Measure of credit risk and indication of health of banking system

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Unbiased Expectations Theory

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Forward rates are an unbiased predictor of future spot rates

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Local Expectations Theory

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Preserves the risk-neutrality assumption only for short holding periods

Over short time periods, every bond should earn the risk-free rate

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Liquidity Preference Theory

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Investors demand liquidity premium that is positively related to a bond’s maturity

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Segmented Markets Theory

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The shape of the yield curve is the result of supply and demand of funds in different market segments

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Preferred Habitat Theory

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Market participants will deviate from their preferred maturity habitat if compensated adequately

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2 types of modern term structure models

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Equilibrium Term Structure Models (CIR and Vasicek)

Arbitrage-free models (Ho-Lee) - Begins w/ observed market prices and the assumption that securities are correctly priced

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Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Model

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Assumes the economy has a natural long-run interest rate (b) that the short-term rate (r) converges to

dr = a(b-r)dt + σ √(rdz)

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Vasicek Model

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Assumes interest rate volatility level is independant of the level of shor-term interest rates

dr = a(b-r)dt + σdz

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Ho-Lee Model

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drt = Φdt + σdzt

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Effective Duration

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Measures the sensitivity of a bond’s price ot parallel shifts in the benchmark yield curve

ED = [(BV-Δy) - (BV+Δy)] / [2 * BV0 * Δy]

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Key Rate Duration

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Measures bond price sensitivity to a change in a specific spot rate, keeping everything else constant

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OAS spreads

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The constant spread added to each forward rate in a benchmark binomial interest rate tree such that the sum of the PVs of a credit risky bond’s CF = its market price

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Effective Duration Totalogies

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ED (Callable/Puttable)

18
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One sided durations (when rates rise vs. when they fall) ________ interest rate sensitivity than regular EDs for bonds w/ embedded options

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better capture

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When option is at/near the money callable (puttable) bonds will have _____ (____) one-sided ____ duration than one-sided ___ duration.

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lower (higher) ; down ; up

20
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Straight and putable bonds exhibit ____ convexity throughout

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positive

21
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Callable bonds exhibit ____ convexity when rates are _____, and ____ convexity when rates are ____

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positive ; high ; negative ; lower

22
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Conversion Value

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Market price of stock * conversion ratio

23
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Market Conversion Price

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Market price of convertible bond / conversion ratio

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Market Conversion Premium per Share

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Market conversion price - market price

25
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Present Value of expected loss

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Difference btw value of credit-risk bond and identical risk-free bond

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Structural Model

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Corporate credit risk is base don the stricture of the company’s balance sheet

Value of Stock = Max [Assets - Face Vale of Debt, 0]

Value of Debt = Min [Face Value of Debt, Assets]

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Reduced Form Model

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Allows for flexibility and incorporation of real world conditions

Assumes >= 1 ZCB outstanding

rf rate, PD, and recovery rate vary w/ the state of the economy

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Credit Spread is the difference btwn the yield on a zero-coupon ______ and a zero-coupon ____

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Credit risk bond; risk-free bond

29
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Unlike corporate debt, ABS….

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… do not default; rather losses in ABS’s collateral pool are borne by different tranches of the ABS structure base on the distribution waterfall

30
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The pure expectations theory assumes risk ______, that is, investors are _____ by uncertainty and risk ______ do not exist.

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Neutrality; Unaffected; Premiums

31
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In a structural model the holding the company’s equity is economically equivalent to owning _____ option on the company’s _______

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European Call Option ; Assets

CFA :Level 2 - 2016 (8 decks)

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