{"id":216461,"date":"2018-09-15T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/fin-355-quiz-3\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:07:14","slug":"fin-355-quiz-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-355-quiz-3\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN 355 Quiz 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question 1\t \ufffd\tBonds issued by state and local governments to fund private projects are called\t\u00a0\tQuestion 2\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tYou assess that one-year and three-year zero-coupon bonds are priced correctly but a two-year zero-coupon bond is overpriced. To take advantage of this mispricing, you should\t\u00a0\tQuestion 3\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tA bond that has no specific collateral to support it is\t\u00a0\tQuestion 4\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tIf you buy a bond today, hold it to maturity, and reinvest coupons\u00a0at a rate that exceeds the bond&#8217;s YTM, your realized yield will be\t\u00a0\tQuestion 5\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tThe yield to maturity assumes that coupons are\t\u00a0\tQuestion 6\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tA fixed coupon rate bond has 12 years to maturity. After one year, its duration will become ______ and its value will become _______ sensitive to interest rate movements.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 7\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tWhich of the following terms cannot be associated with corporate bonds?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 8\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tBonds that are traded over-the-counter are traded\t\u00a0\tQuestion 9\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tExchange-traded bonds are\t\u00a0\tQuestion 10\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tWhat is the duration of a 5-year zero-coupon bond if the discount rate is 6%?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which mortgage type dominates the mortgage markets?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 12\u00a0\u00a0 Single monthly mortality refers to\t\u00a0\tQuestion 13 \ufffdThe closed-form solution for valuing a portfolio of fixed-rate mortgages _______.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 14\t \ufffd\tAfter a single national mortgage market had developed as a result of disintermediation, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates _____.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 15\t \ufffd\tCollateralized loans represent\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tQuestion 16\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tA prepayment option on a mortgage is similar to _______ on a bond.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 17\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tAn adjustable-rate mortgage contract should specify all but one of the following:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 18\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tThe interest in the asset held by the lender is called\t\u00a0\tQuestion 19\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tComputing a mortgage portfolio&#8217;s expected P&#038;I payment is based on all but one of the following:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 20\t\u00a0\t \ufffd\tAll else equal, if interest rates unexpectedly increase, the actual cash flow of a variable-rate mortgage portfolio is likely to be _______ the expected cash flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 1 \ufffd Bonds issued by state and local governments to fund private projects are called \u00a0 Question 2 \u00a0 \ufffd You assess that one-year and three-year zero-coupon bonds are priced correctly but a two-year zero-coupon bond is overpriced. To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-355-quiz-3\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}