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Fixed Income – CFA Prep | 100 Questions & Answers | Duration, Spreads, Bonds | 2025/2026 Exam

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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 an excellent tool for exam revision, concept reinforcement, or fast review. The structure follows the logic and terminology expected in both professional exams and academic finance courses. This document is highly relevant for: CFA candidates (Level I, II, III) Undergraduate and graduate students in Finance, Economics, and Business Courses like Fixed Income Securities, Financial Markets, Investment Analysis, Bond Valuation, and Portfolio Management The material aligns well with academic curricula and professional standards, helping students and candidates master key concepts tested in both university exams and financial certifications. Keywords: fixed income, duration, convexity, bond valuation, yield spread, Z-spread, option-adjusted spread, callable bond, putable bond, CFA exam, interest rate risk, reinvestment risk, Macaulay duration, modified duration, spot rate, bond pricing, securitization, ABS, CDO, PAC tranche, credit risk, repo agreement, monetary policy

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Difference between nominal spread and Z spread will be larger if: - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔The yield curve slope is steeper


Full-Valuation Approach vs Duration/Convexity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Allows

modeling of the response to both parallel and non-parallel shifts in the yield

curve




-duration only parallel shifts


CMO First Tranche Of Bond - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Highest prepayment risk

lowest interest rate risk

-absorbs all prepayments but is first to be paid off

,Bond Equivalent Yield from YTM - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2 x (YTM^.5 - 1) = BEY


Percentage Change of Price Duration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Duration x

(increase/decrease in interest rate)


Percentage Change Price Convexity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Convexity *

(increase/decrease in interest rate)^2

Callable or Putable: Which most likely negative convexity? - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔Callable


Investor Least Likely Exposed from Reinvestment Risk from owning - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔Zero-coupon Bond


Lower Coupon and Longer Maturity Interest Rate Risk - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔Both increase more than counterparts


Tax-Equivalent Yield - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Municipal Rate / (1 - Tax)


Money Duration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔annual modified duration x full price


Bond Price Change Formula With Convexity and Duration - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔-[AnnModDuration x changeYTM] + 1/2[convexity x changeYTM^2] x

100

, Modified Duration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Approximate percentage change in

bond's value for a 1% change in its YTM


MacDuration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Weighted average number of periods until

bonds cash flows scheduled to be paid

-bonds market price risk and reinvestment risk offset


Rising interest rate volatility effect on Putable Bonds - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Will

increase value




-Put = price of nonputable + put option


Rising interest rate volatility effect on callable bond - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔will

decrease value




-call= price of noncallable - call option


On-the-run Treasury - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Most recently auctioned treasury

securities in each maturity


Revenue Bond - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Municipal bonds that will be repaid from

revenue generated by a specific project

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