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3. You are considering purchasing one of two bonds, a municipal bond or a corporate bond of comparable risk. Both bonds are selling at par, and their yields are 6% and 4%.
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a. If you are in the 20% marginal tax bracket, which bond would you prefer? Justify your choice by discussing before- and after-tax yields.
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b. What marginal tax rate would make you indifferent between the two choices?
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4. Determine the security in each case that would most likely have thehigher price. In each case, clearly and fully explain your answers.
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a. Two U.S. Treasury bonds with the same remaining maturity. One has a 3% coupon and the other a 4% coupon, and their required return is 3%.
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b. Two call options on the same stock. The options have the same maturity, but one has an exercise price of $35 and the other has an exercise price of $40.
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c. Two put options on two different stocks. The stocks currently sell for $50 and $51. The puts have the same maturity and exercise prices.
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d. In answering part c, do you need to make any assumptions about the two underlying stocks?
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5. You see the bid and ask prices for ABC Corp are 55.25 and 55.50, respectively.
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a. At what price could you purchase the stock?
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b. At what price could you sell (what price would a dealer pay you) the stock?
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c. You submit a limit order to sell at $55.62. What will happen?
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d. You submit a limit order to buy at $55.37. What will happen?
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6. The current price of Telecom RSP is $50 and you want to purchase $10,000 its stock on 50% margin. The broker call loan rate is 8%.
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a. Assuming Telecom pays no dividends, what will be your return on investment, if Telecom goes up 10%?
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b. What is the minimum price Telecom can hit before you receive a margin call?
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7. The open-end fund has a NAV of $10.70 per share and a front-end load of 6%. What is its offering price?
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8. A mutual fund has $450 million in assets and liabilities of $10 million.
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a. If the fund has 44 million shares outstanding, what is its NAV?
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b. If an investor redeems 1,000,000 shares, what happens to the value of the fund’s portfolio, to the number of shares outstanding, and to its NAV?
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