NO.PZ2023020101000016
问题如下:
Mehta, who is based in Hong Kong SAR and
requires a €25,000,000 one-year bridge loan to fund operations in Germany. He
wants to fund this loan at a competitive rate. Riley advises Mehta to borrow in
HK dollars and enter into a one-year foreign currency swap to swap into euros.
The current exchange rate is HK$9.15 per euro. Exhibit 1 below provides Hong
Kong and euro spot interest rates and present value factors.
Exhibit
1: Hong Kong and Euro Spot Interest Rates
Based on the information in Exhibit 1, the
annual fixed swap rate Mehta would pay is closest
to:
选项:
A.
0.48%.
B.
0.92%.
C.
1.88%.
解释:
PV
factors for HK dollar are provided along with an explanation of how they are
calculated:
For
example, PV(90) is calculated as follows:
Other
present value factors are calculated in a similar manner.
The
fixed rate is calculated as follows:
The
annualized rate = 0.0023 × 4 = 0.0092.
题目里90,180,270,360说的是days to maturity,也就是距离到期日还有90天,180天,270天,360天,上课画的时间轴90,180,270,360都是时间点,如果按题里的说法90days to maturity应该是270的时间点,那360days to maturity就应该是0时间点,所以按时间点画时间轴的话应该是0,90,180,270这四个时间点有利率,而最后到期日360时间点没有利率?