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爱吃草的欢欢 · 2020年02月20日

问一道题:NO.PZ2019103001000032 [ CFA III ]

问题如下:

Doug Kepler, the newly hired chief financial officer for the City of Radford, asks the deputy financial manager, Hui Ng, to prepare an analysis of the current investment portfolio and the city’s current and future obligations. The city has multiple liabilities of different amounts and maturities relating to the pension fund, infrastructure repairs, and various other obligations.

Ng observes that the current fixed-income portfolio is structured to match the duration of each liability. Previously, this structure caused the city to access a line of credit for temporary mismatches resulting from changes in the term structure of interest rates.

Kepler asks Ng for different strategies to manage the interest rate risk of the city’s fixed-income investment portfolio against one-time shifts in the yield curve. Ng considers two different strategies:

Strategy 1: Immunization of the single liabilities using zero-coupon bonds held to maturity

Strategy 2: Immunization of the single liabilities using coupon-bearing bonds while continuously matching duration.

An upward shift in the yield curve on Strategy 2 will most likely result in the:

选项:

A.

price effect cancelling the coupon reinvestment effect.

B.

price effect being greater than the coupon reinvestment effect.

C.

coupon reinvestment effect being greater than the price effect.

解释:

A is correct.

An upward shift in the yield curve reduces the bond’s value but increases the reinvestment rate, with these two effects offsetting one another. The price effect and the coupon reinvestment effect cancel each other in the case of an upward shift in the yield curve for an immunized liability.

这个题目只说了是upward sloping并没有具体说liability的期限和两边资产的Duration情况,仅凭这一个条件没法判断Price risk和 reinvestment risk可以完全抵消,只能说存在抵消的可能,答案这样选是不是有些绝对?
1 个答案

carolllll · 2020年02月21日

同学你好,

这道题主要问的是因为是对于Immunized的这些liabilities的影响。因为在Strategy的描述中并没有涉及到asset的信息。

single liabilities所以是具有zero coupon bond的特性,对于zero coupon bond,price effect和coupon reinvestment effect是相互抵消的。

希望对你有帮助~