NO.PZ2018120301000064
问题如下:
Wang, a junior analyst in a wealth management firm, made the following statements about the differences between high-yield bond markets and the investment-grade bond markets:
Statement 1: Both high-yield bonds and investment-grade bonds are quoted as spreads over the benchmark government bonds.
Statement 2: compared with the high-yield bond, bid-ask spread for the investment-grade bonds are often lower.
Statement 3: for the high-yield bonds, the interest rate sensitivity is lower than that of the investment-grade bonds.
According to the information above, which of the following is correct?
选项:
A.Statement 1 and statement 2 are correct.
B.Statement 2 and statement 3 are correct.
C.All the statements are correct.
解释:
B is correct.
考点:High-yield bond和Investment-grade相关概念
解析:三个Statements中,第一个错误,Investment-grade bond的报价是基于benchmark的Spread,而对于High-yield bond报价通常是价格。
可以请老师帮忙回忆一下这两种bond的区别吗?好像有点弄混淆了。
high yield bond因为credit spread更大,所以在interest rate上升时,价格反而下降的更少(r上升,credit spread下降的跟多,有offset的效果)
是不是也是同一个原因导致了high yield bond的bid-ask spread更大?