Free Online PRMIA 8006 Practice Test

A bond with a 5% coupon trades at 95. An increase in interest rates by 10 bps causes its price to decline to $94.50. A decrease in interest rates by 10 bps causes its price to increase to $95.60. Estimate the convexity of the bond.

A bullet bond refers to a bond:

Security A has a beta of 1.2 while security B has a beta of 1.5. If the risk free rate is 3%, and the expected total return from security A is 8%, what is the excess return expected from security B?

It is January and an Australian importer needs to pay USD 1,120,000 at the end of August to a US creditor. If a AUD/USD futures contract is trading on the exchange at a futures price of 0.6750 (ie, 1 AUD = 0.6750 USD), and the contract size is USD 100,000, what would represent an appropriate hedge?