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This document includes 100 expertly answered fixed income questions, specifically crafted for the 2025/2026 CFA examination and higher education coursework in finance. It covers essential topics such as duration and convexity, yield spreads (Z-spread, option-adjusted spread), interest rate risk, reinvestment risk, bond valuation techniques, callable and putable bonds, securitization (ABS, CDOs), and monetary policy impacts. Each question is paired with a concise and accurate answer, making it...

Fixed Income Review Questions and Answers (Graded A+) Structured financial instruments - Answers Securities designed to change the risk profile of an underlying debt security, often by combining a debt security with a derivative Price yield relation convex - Answers Cùng 1 lượng change YTM, lỗ < lãi (P down < P up) Constant-yield price trajectory - Answers A graph that illustrates the change in the price of a fixed-income bond over time assuming no change in yield-to-maturity. ...

Fixed Income Securities Test 1 (Answered) Complete Solution Fixed income securities can also be referred to as? debt securities and bonds a fixed income security is a __________ obligation debt What is the largest subset of financial markets? global fixed income markets global fixed income markets is the largest by what criteria? - number of shares - market capitalization In 2010 global fixed income markets were ____ times larger than global equity markets? 3 In fixed income market...

Fixed Income Securities Test 2 (Answered) Complete Solution Assume you purchased Treasury bond on November 14, with an annual coupon rate equal to 15%. At settlement you must pay accrued interest equal to $2.51. Assuming there are 182 days in a coupon period, how many days were in the AI period? Coupon of 15% = $15 per $100 of par Coupon interest per day = 15 / 364 = .0412 $2.51 / .0412 = 61 days Which of the following statements is FALSE? - all coupon treasury security can be created ...

Fixed Income Review Test and Quizzes (Answered) Verified Solution The US debt market is larger than the US equity market? (T/F) TRUE All of the following are differentiating factors of fixed income securities versus equity securities except for: -Fixed claim -Infinite Life -Tax deductibility by user -Higher priority on cash flows Infinite Life A bond's CUSIP is defined as: A) A unique nine digit number to identify individual bonds B) A number assigned by the SEC to all registered b...

fixed income test 3 (Answered) Complete Solution delta first-order sensitivity to the price of the underlying asset; positive for calls and increase with moneyness, negative for puts and decrease with moneyness gamma measures how delta changes as spot price increases theta measures time decay of an options value; always negative for calls, usually negative for puts vega sensitivity of an options price to changes in volatility of the underlying asset rho sensitivity of an option price t...

Fixed Income HW and Test Banks (Answered) Complete Solution These are legally enforceable rules that borrowers and lenders agree on at the time of a new bond issue. What are these rules called? a. Collateral b. Covenants c. Seniority ranking d. Credit enhancement b. Covenants The provision that provides bondholders the right to sell the bond back to the issuer at a predetermined price prior to the bond's maturity date is referred to as: a. a put provision b. a call provision c...

Fixed Income LIII Practice Test (Answered) Verified Solution Expected Excess Return (s x t) - (changeins x SD) - (t x p x l) Interpolated Yields 1) Your Bond Interest Rate = (Wi x Duration Bond A) + ((1 - Wi) x Duration Bond B) 2) (w)(int. rate) + (1-w)(int. rate) 3) Your Bond Int. Rate - weighted average interest rate Empirical Duration Duration determined by regression analysis of the historical relationship between security prices and yields Investment-Grade - Default-Risk and ...

Fixed Income Test 2 (Answerd) Verified Solution Two factors account for prominence of US Treasuries 1) Volume 2) Liquidity Department of Treasury = largest global single issuer of debt. Most active/liquid market in the world. All Treausury securities are noncallable. Thus, investors are not subject to call risk Marketable Treasury secs fixed-principal securities or inflation-indexed securities Treasury Bills - issued at discount - no coupon - one year or less - return to the inv...

Fixed Income Test 1 (Answered) 2022 The US debt market is larger than the US equity market? T/F True All of the following are differentiating factors of fixed income securities versus equity securities except for: Fixed claim Higher priority on cash flows Tax deductibility by issuer Infinite Life Infinite Life A bond's CUSIP is defined as: A) A unique nine digit number to identify individual bonds B) A number assigned by the SEC to all registered bond offerings Only A is corre...