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1 FIN-672 Securities Analysis & Portfolio Management Professor Michel A. Robe Practice Set #3 and Solutions. What to do with this practice set? To help MBA students prepare for the assignment and the exams, practice sets with solutions will be handed out. These sets contain select worked-out end-of-chapter problems from BKM4 through BKM7. These sets will not be graded, but students are strongly encouraged to try hard to solve them and to use office hours to discuss any problems they may have doing so. One of the best self-tests for a student of his or her command of the material before a case or the exam is whether he or she can handle the questions of the relevant practice sets. The questions on the exam will cover the reading material, and will be very similar to those in the practice sets. Question 1: Rank the following bonds in order of descending duration: Bond Coupon (%) Time to Maturity (Years) Yield to Maturity (%) A B C D E Question 2: Suppose you invest in zero coupon bonds. One matures in 1 year, paying \$100, and its price is \$ The other matures in 2 years, paying \$1100, and its price is \$ (a) Compute the yield on each bond. (b) Compute the duration for each bond. (c) (NOT EXAM MATERIAL) What is the weighted-average duration of a portfolio comprising one each of these two bonds. (Hint: for each bond, its portfolio weight is the fraction of the portfolio s value that is made up by that bond s price) (d) Compute the duration of the portfolio of the two bonds. Question 3: Consider a bond that has a 30-year maturity, an 8% coupon rate, and sells at an initial yield to 1

2 maturity of 8%. Because the coupon rate equals the yield to maturity, the bond sells at par value: P = \$1, Also, you are told that the modified duration (D * ) of the bond, at its initial yield, is years, and that the bond s convexity is Suppose that the bond s yield increases from 8% to 10%. (a) Predict how much the bond price would decline by applying the duration rule. (b) You can compute (exactly) that the bond price will actually fall to \$811.46, corresponding to a decline of 18.85%. Can you explain differences with the result in item (a)? (c) Now consider that you are interested in predicting how much the bond price would change by applying the duration-with-convexity rule. How do you analyze the result in this case? (d) Now consider that there is a much smaller change in bond s yield of 0.1%, so that the price of the bond would actually fall to \$988.85, which corresponds to a decline of 1.115%. Predict how much the bond price would change by applying both the duration and the duration-with convexity rules, and then analyze how the results differ from those in (a) and (c). Question 4: Pension funds pay lifetime annuities to recipients. If a firm expects to remain in business indefinitely, then its pension obligation will resemble a perpetuity. Suppose, therefore, that you are managing a pension fund with obligations to make perpetual payments of \$2 million per year to beneficiaries. The yield to maturity on all bonds is 16%. (a) If the duration of 5-year maturity bonds with coupon rates of 12% (paid annually) is 4 years and the duration of 20-year maturity bonds with coupon rates of 6% (paid annually) is 11 years, how much of each of these coupon bonds (in market value) will you want to hold to both fully fund and immunize your obligation? (b) What will be the par value of your holdings in the 20-year coupon bond? Question 5 (NOT Exam Material): A fixed-income portfolio manager is unwilling to realize a rate of return of less than 3% annually over a 5-year investment period on a portfolio currently valued at \$1 million. Three years later, the interest rate is 8%. What is the trigger point of the portfolio at this time, that is, how low can the value of the portfolio fall before the manager will be forced to immunize to be assured of achieving the minimum acceptable return? 2

3 FIN-672 Securities Analysis & Portfolio Management Professor Michel A. Robe Practice Set #3: Solutions. Question 1: C, D, A, B, E. To see why we can rank-order the bonds without doing computations in the present example, remember that duration is other things equal otherwise increasing in time to maturity (TTM) and decreasing in both coupon rate (CR) and yield to maturity (YTM). Here, bond C has the highest TTM and the lowest YTM and CR of all bonds. Hence, it clearly has the highest duration. Bond D is next, as it has the same TTM and YTM but a higher coupon rate than bond C (and a higher TTM, lower YTM, and CR than all the remaining bonds). Proceeding in this way, you get the order C, D, A, B, E. Note that, in general, bonds cannot be rank-ordered so simply; for example, it is usually hard to avoid using computations to rank two bonds by duration when they have almost the same YTM, CR and TTM. Question 2: (a) Yield on 1-year bond = (\$100/\$56.93) 1 = 75.65% Yield on a 2-year bond = [(\$1100/\$943.07) 1/2 ] 1 = 8% (b) Duration for 1-year bond = 1 year (single payment). Duration for 2-year bond = 2 years (single payment). (c) The weighted average duration for the portfolio is equal to: 1 year times (\$56.93/\$1000) + 2 years times (\$943.07/\$1000) = years (d) Notice that the bond portfolio has the same payoff profile as a 2-year coupon bond with a 10% coupon rate would have, and sells for a total price of \$1,000=\$56.93+\$ Since that coupon bond sells at par, its YTM should be 10%. This is the YTM we ll use for the duration of the portfolio computation. Specifically, the duration for the portfolio is equal to: 1 x [(\$100/1.10)/\$1000] + 2 x [(\$1100/ )/\$1000] = (2 x ) = Question 3: (a) We know that: 3

4 ( P/P) = -D* y, where D* stands for the modified duration of the bond at its initial yield. Thus we could predict a price decline of ( P/P) = x 0.02 = , or 22.52%. (b) 22.52% is considerably a higher price decline than the actual decline of 18.85%. In this case, the duration rule was not a very accurate measure of the sensitivity of bond prices, in the sense that for a 2% yield change, the duration rule underestimated the new value of the bond (i.e., predicted a lower bond price) following such a change in its yield. Thus, duration predicted that the bond price would fall more than it actually fell. (c) The duration-with-convexity rule is given by ( P/P) = -D* y + (1/2) x Convexity x ( y) 2. Thus, ( P/P) = x (1/2) x x (0.02) 2 = , or 18.27%. The predicted decline of % is far closer to the exact change in the bond price of %. In this situation, the duration-with-convexity rule is more accurate to predict a higher bond price. (d) Without accounting for convexity, we would predict a price decline of ( P/P) = x = , or 1.126%. If we account for convexity, then we will get almost the precisely correct price change of 1.115%: ( P/P) = x (1/2) x x (0.001) 2 = , or %. In this case, for a much smaller yield change of 0.1%, convexity would matter less. In other terms, since the change in the bond s yield is very small, the convexity term, which is multiplied by ( y) 2, will be extremely small and will do little to the approximation. Thus, the duration rule is quite accurate in such a situation, even without accounting for convexity. In general, convexity is more important as a practical device when potential interest rate changes are large. Question 4: (a) PV of the firm s perpetual obligation = (\$2 million/0.16) = \$12.5 million. Based on the duration of a perpetuity, the duration of this obligation = (1.16/0.16) = 7.25 years. Denote by w the weight on the 5-year maturity bond, which has duration of 4 years. Then, w x 4 + (1 w) x 11 = 7.25, which implies that w = Therefore, 4

5 x \$12.5 = \$6.7 million in the 5-year bond and x \$12.5 = \$5.8 million in the 20-year bond. The total invested amounts to \$( ) million = \$12.5 million, fully matching the funding needs. 5

6 (b) The price of the 20-year bond is 60 x PA(16%, 20) x PF(16%, 20) = \$ where PA(x%, n) is the present value of an annuity that has \$1 par value, yields x% yearly and has n years to maturity, and PF(x%, n) is the corresponding number for a zero coupon bond. Therefore, the bond sells for times its par value, and Market value = Par value x => \$5.8 million = Par value x => Par value = \$14.25 million. Another way to see this is to note that each bond with a par value of \$1,000 sells for \$ If the total market value is \$5.8 million, then you need to buy 14,250 bonds, which results in total par value of \$14,250,000. Question 5: The minimum terminal value that the manager is willing to accept is determined by the requirement for a 3% annual return on the initial investment. Therefore, the floor equals \$1 million x (1.03) 5 = \$1.16 million. Three years after the initial investment, only two years remain until the horizon date, and the interest rate has risen to 8%. Therefore, at this time, the manager needs a portfolio worth [\$1.16 million/(1.08) 2 ] = \$0.994 million to be assured that the target value can be attained. This is the trigger point. 6

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