Question

1. Arjen owns investment A and 1 bond B. The total value of his holdings is 1,829 dollars. Investment A is expected to pay annual cash flows to Arjen of 259.25 dollars per year with the first annual cash flow expected later today and the last annual cash flow expected in 4 years from today. Investment A has an expected return of 12.37 percent. Bond B pays semi-annual coupons, matures in 19 years, has a face value of $1000, has a coupon rate of 8.74 percent, and pays its next coupon in 6 months. What is the yield-to-maturity for bond B? Answer as a rate in decimal format so that 12.34% would be entered as .1234 and 0.98% would be entered as .0098.

Answer 1