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Robert Campbell and Carol Morris are senior vice presidents of the Mutual of Chicago
Insurance Company. They are codirectors of the company’s pension fund management
division, with Campbell having responsibility for fixed-income securities (primarily bonds) and
Morris responsible for equity investments. A major new client, the California League of Cities,
has requested that Mutual of Chicago present an investment seminar to the mayors of the
represented cities. Campbell and Morris, who will make the actual presentation, have asked you
to help them by answering the following questions.
a. What are the key features of a bond?
b. How do you determine the value of any asset whose value is based on expected future cash
flows?
c. How do you determine the value of a bond? What is the value of a one-year, $1,000 par
value bond with a 10 percent annual coupon if its required rate of return is 10 percent? What is
the value of a similar 10-year bond?
d. (1) What would be the value of the 10-year bond described in part (c) if, just after it had been
issued, the expected inflation rate rose by 3 percentage points, causing investors to require a
13 percent return? Is the security now a discount bond or a premium bond?
(2) What would happen to the bond’s value if inflation fell and rd declined to 7 percent? Would it
now be a premium bond or a discount bond?
(3) What would happen to the value of the 10-year bond over time if the required rate of return
remained at (i) 13 percent or (ii) remained at 7 percent?
e. (1) What is the yield to maturity on a 10-year, 9 percent annual coupon, $1,000 par value
bond that sells for $887.00? That sells for $1,134.20? What does the fact that a bond sells at a
discount or at a premium tell you about the relationship between rd and the bond’s coupon
rate?
(2) What is the current yield, the capital gains yield, and the total return in each case in the
preceding question?
f. Suppose that the bond described in part (e) is callable in five years at a call price equal to
$1,090. What is the YTC on the bond if its market value is $887? What is the YTC on the same
bond if its current market price is $1,134.20?
g. What is interest rate price risk? Which bond in part (c) has more interest rate price risk, the
one-year bond or the 10-year bond?
h. What is interest reinvestment rate risk? Which bond in part (c) has more interest rate
reinvestment rate risk, assuming a 10-year investment horizon?
i. Redo parts (c) and (d), assuming that the bonds have semiannual rather than annual
coupons.
j. Suppose you could buy, for $1,000, either a 10 percent, 10-year, annual payment bond or a
10 percent, 10-year, semiannual payment bond. Both bonds are equally risky. Which would you
prefer? If $1,000 is the proper price for the semiannual bond, what is the proper price for the
annual payment bond?
k. What is the value of a perpetual bond with an annual coupon of $100 if its required rate of
return is 10 percent? 13 percent? 7 percent? Assess the following statement: “Because

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 perpetual bonds match an infinite investment horizon, they have little interest rate price risk.”

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