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ECOM074 Bond Market Strategies

Tutorial Class 1

Question topics

1.   Calculating bond prices for annual coupon bonds using given yields.

2.   Calculating bond prices for semi-annual coupon bonds using given yields.

3.   Calculating bond prices for zero coupon bonds using given yields.

4.   Calculating implied interest rates using given bond prices for zero coupon bonds.

5.   Financial engineering and arbitrage using zero coupon bonds.

Reference material

1.   Lecture 2 Bond prices and interest rates: part 5.

2.   Lecture 2 Bond prices and interest rates: part 6.

Question 1

Consider a 10-year German government bond (Bund) with a 5.00% coupon rate and a par      value of €100. This bond makes annual coupon payments. What is the price for this bond if its yield is 0.50%? Explain your answer and comment on the result.

Question 2

Consider another 10-year German government bond (Bund) with an 0.50% coupon rate and a par value of €100. This bond also makes annual coupon payments. What is the price for this     bond if its yield is 2.20%? Explain your answer and comment on the result.

Question 3

Consider a 10-year Italian government bond (BTP) with a 1.00% coupon rate, an annual             coupon payment frequency and a par value of €100. What is the price for this bond if its yield is 4.00%? Explain your answer and comment on the result.

Question 4

Consider a 10-year UK government bond (Gilt) with an 0.50% coupon rate, a semi-annual          coupon payment frequency and a par value of £100. What is the price for this bond if its yield is 3.00%? Explain your answer and comment on the result.

Question 5

Consider a 10-year US Treasury bond with a 1.00% coupon rate and a par value of $100. This  bond makes semi-annual coupon payments. What is the price of this bond if its yield is 3.50%? Explain your answer and comment on the result .

Question 6

Consider a 5-year Euro area zero-coupon bond that has a par value of €100 and is priced at €87.1033.

a)   Calculate the implied yield for this bond.

b)   What is the relationship between the implied yield and the implied interest rate for this bond?

Question 7

Consider a 5-year Euro area government bond with an 0.50% coupon rate and a par value of €100. This bond makes annual coupon payments. The yield is 2.80%. The price information is provided in the following table:

 

Time

period

 

Cash

flow

 

Discount factor

 

 

Present value

 

1

2

3

4

5

 

€ 0.50

€ 0.50

€ 0.50

€ 0.50

€ 100.50

 

0.9728

0.9463

0.9205

0.8954

0.8710

 

€ 0.4864

€ 0.4731

€ 0.4602

€ 0.4477

€ 87.5388

Sum

 89.4063

Look at the following portfolio of zero-coupon bonds that produces matching future cash flows for this coupon bond. Is there an arbitrage opportunity?

Zero-

Coupon

Bonds

 

Time

period

 

Cash

flow

 

Discount factor

 

 

Present value

 

 

1             € 0.50                                 € 0.4864

2             € 0.50                                 € 0.4731

3             € 0.50                                 € 0.4602

4             € 0.50                                 € 0.4477

5           € 100.50                              € 87.5388

1

2

3

4

5

 

Sum

 89.4063

Question 8

Consider the same coupon bond in question 7 and look at the following new portfolio of zero- coupon bonds that produces matching future cash flows for this bond. Is there an arbitrage     opportunity? Explain how you would exploit this opportunity.

Zero-

Coupon

Bonds

 

Time                             Discount

period     Cash flow      factor       Present value

 

 

1             € 0.50                                € 0.4888

2             € 0.50                                € 0.4778

3             € 0.50                                € 0.4670

4             € 0.50                                € 0.4565

5           € 100.50                             € 89.6991

1

2

3

4

5

 

Sum

 91.5891

Question 9

Consider the same coupon bond in question 7 and look at the following new portfolio of zero- coupon bonds that produces matching future cash flows for this bond. Is there an arbitrage     opportunity? Explain how you would exploit this opportunity.

Zero-

Coupon

Bonds

 

Time                             Discount

period     Cash flow       factor        Present value

 

 

1              € 0.50                                  € 0.4840

2              € 0.50                                  € 0.4686

3              € 0.50                                  € 0.4536

4              € 0.50                                  € 0.4391

5           € 100.50                               € 85.4406

1

2

3

4

5

 

Sum

 87.2859